Subject: Happy Halloween
Happy Halloween
October 31st, 2017 at 8:36 am EDTHey Friend, Mwa, ha, ha, ha, ha! Hello, my ghoulish guitar playing friends! I hope this message finds you in a particularly mischievous mood for tonight’s festivities. Will you be dealing treats, or partaking in tricks? My little devils (okay ...
Prelude To Another Pattern
October 30th, 2017 at 8:33 am EDTHey Friend, Can you believe it’s the end of October already? There’s a nip in the air, and for Central Florida, that’s sayin’ something! Now that we’ve learned the names of each interval in the major scale, I wanted to point something out ...
Going Home
October 29th, 2017 at 10:10 am EDTHey Friend, I started to talk about the concept of tension a couple days ago before I was so rudely interrupted by technical difficulties and that j.o.b. thing! When you are playing the notes from a scale, the tonic note is the base of the scale. L ...
Did You Hear That?
October 28th, 2017 at 1:05 pm EDTTension: The Hidden Protagonist
October 27th, 2017 at 1:28 pm EDTHey Friend, Well, f#@$%!!! Had a technical snafu this morning. The Internet connection status light on the modem was flashing red and green, which is never a good sign. After resetting the modem a half a dozen times and calling for support, we were ...
Waves and Frequencies and Ratios, Oh My...
October 26th, 2017 at 8:35 am EDTHey Friend, We’ve come full circle with the major scale. The Perfect Octave interval brings us back to the root note of the scale, the same as the tonic except that the pitch is higher. As I’ve said before, the perfect octave sound wave has a v ...
The Major Seventh Bringing It Home
October 25th, 2017 at 8:36 am EDTHey Friend, We are in the home stretch along the major scale journey (how’d you like that baseball reference from a non-sporty guy?). Pretty sad that I didn’t even know the World Series was going on, let alone who’s playing in it! I am glad ...
Look Into My Eyes...
October 24th, 2017 at 8:35 am EDTHey Friend, Next in line is the Major Sixth interval. Where the perfect fifth sounded like it was a nice complement to the tonic, almost a resting place in the scale, the major sixth instills a sense of movement. You’ll feel a tension to move up ...
The Perfect Fifth Interval
October 23rd, 2017 at 8:36 am EDTHey Friend, The Perfect Fifth is an interesting interval because it is very similar to the tonic of the key. When we look at how sound waves interact and resonate, the perfect fifth is the next closest wavelength to the tonic as that of the octave. ...
The Perfect Fourth Interval
October 22nd, 2017 at 9:00 am EDTHey Friend, Getting back to the intervals, the next is the Perfect Fourth. This is the fourth note in a major scale. Tonic - we call this the root note most of the time; it’s the first note of the scale. In the key of C major, this note would be ...