Subject: Hi Ho, Hi Ho...
Hi Ho, Hi Ho...
June 20th, 2016 at 11:12 am EDTHey Friend, It's off to work I go. Yup, first day of work at the new job. I have a bit of stage fright - to be expected, I suppose. Nothing major... A couple days ago, I talked about the dominant 7 chord (D7, to be specific). That's a major chord, wi ...
Happy Father's Day
June 19th, 2016 at 11:06 am EDTHey Friend, Happy Father's Day, the celebration honoring fatherhood that nearly wasn't. It took nearly 60 years of varied efforts for the day to become permanently recognized. Turns out folks all over the world now celebrate dads. You can read more a ...
Binge Listening
June 18th, 2016 at 11:21 am EDTHey Friend, Quickly, before I forget, if you are at all interested in recording music, Puremix is giving away some cool stuff this week in honor of GearFest, including Presonus gear and software. I've been using my Presonus DAW and audio interface fo ...
Dominant 7 Chords
June 17th, 2016 at 11:14 am EDTHey Friend, So we've looked at major, minor, suspended 2 and suspended 4 triads at this point. There are a number of other chords you will see on a regular basis in Rock music (as well as the Blues, Country, Folk and Jazz genres). These are the 7 cho ...
Draggin' Bag...
June 16th, 2016 at 11:13 am EDTHey Friend, We had a phrase when I was in the Army to describe being worn out and running on empty... we called it "draggin' bag." It's been a heck of a week for me already. Y'all heard about my job in North Carolina falling out. What I didn't mentio ...
Suspended Triads
June 15th, 2016 at 11:19 am EDTHey Friend, Another set of triads you will run into on a regular basis are the suspended chords. If you're a fan of The Who, U2 or Rush, you'll see suspended chords smattered all throughout their music. Many times, when you play a suspended chord, th ...
Major and Minor Triads
June 14th, 2016 at 11:16 am EDTHey Friend, Okay, so triads. Three notes, when played together, make a chord. Which leads me to think I need to step back and define a handful of chord forms so that when we talk about them, we're all on the same page. Let's look at the most common f ...
Down, But Not Out...
June 13th, 2016 at 11:04 am EDTHey Friend, I apologize. I'm not having a good week. Besides the job upset and resulting fallout, this mass shooting in Orlando is topping off my cup of pain. It happened eleven miles away from my house... This little cocktail of anxiety and depressi ...
Sucker Punched
June 12th, 2016 at 11:16 am EDTHey Friend, You know what they say... if something seems too good to be true, it usually is... Yesterday I got a voice mail from my "handler" (this is what I call recruiters) to call him back as soon as possible. I was in the middle of finishing up m ...
The Vance Hotel
June 11th, 2016 at 11:00 am EDTHey Friend, It's Saturday, and I still have a house full of guests. I got home last night after 9:00PM, and it's still on hotel mode, so I feel a bit like I'm still on the road. Except now, I'm sharing the room with eight people instead of being the ...