Subject: Getting into The Majors
Getting into The Majors
September 29th, 2017 at 8:34 am EDTHey Friend, The Major scale is the foundation for making all melodies and chords. So the pattern you use to play the major scale is like the scale’s daddy. The pattern is created from combining a specific series of whole step and half step interv ...
Musical Puzzles
September 28th, 2017 at 8:33 am EDTHey Friend, Are you ready to start learning one of the most important concepts in music? I’m talking huge - a major epiphany? This one concept will unlock not only your understanding of notes and melody, but it will clear up questions about har ...
You Want Half, or Whole? You Can Have Them Both...
September 27th, 2017 at 8:33 am EDTHey Friend, Alright, so seven note names… Yesterday, I hinted that we only need to know the names for seven of the twelve possible notes used in music today (at least Western music). Those notes are A, B, C, D, E, F and G. But we have twelve fre ...
7 Notes for 7 Rockers
September 26th, 2017 at 8:34 am EDTHey Friend, Yesterday I mentioned that there are a total of 12 pitches that we use in music, but I also mentioned that we really only need to start off learning seven of those twelve. Seven is an important number because it tells us how many notes ...
That Crazy Greek Pythagoras
September 25th, 2017 at 8:34 am EDTHey Friend, At the very basest of levels, melody starts out as a single pitch (note). But one note a melody does not make! As the definition goes, melody is... ...a collection of pitches that all together form a pleasing or satisfying piece. ...
Learn the All Best Songs by The Who
September 24th, 2017 at 11:40 am EDTHey Friend, One of my favorite guitar learning sites is at it again. Guitar Tricks has licensed MORE songs from The Who for your learning pleasure! Back in July, they laid out the first batch of instructional videos for these songs:BargainI Can't ...
Improve Your Brain for Better Guitar Playing (Just One Benefit)
September 23rd, 2017 at 11:02 am EDTHey Friend, Sorry for the lateness of this message, and this one has nothing to do with guitar. But it does have to do with both repairing and improving your memory. I have been trying to catch up on a special video series of doctors discussing a d ...
What Is Melody?
September 22nd, 2017 at 8:35 am EDTHey Friend, When I say the word melody, what do you think of? If you’re like most Rockers, you immediately picture a lead singer belting out the main line of notes as they sing the lyrics. And you are correct. But there’s more to melody than ...
The Results Are In
September 21st, 2017 at 8:38 am EDTHey Friend, Thanks for taking a few minutes and filling out the survey. I appreciate it! Here's how things fleshed out: 46% of you want to focus on melody - that means looking at how notes interact and learning various scales and patterns. 29% of ...
Tuning With Harmonics
September 20th, 2017 at 8:35 am EDTHey Friend, Yesterday I spoke about a manual way to tune your guitar strings using fourth intervals (aka “perfect fourths”). An even more accurate way to tune is using harmonics. Harmonics are overtones of a guitar string’s vibration. Whe ...