Loading ...Hello Everyone. I feel like I should be changing my shoes right now. That is an old Mr. Rogers reference for anyone who is not familiar. In previous articles I talked about major and minor intervals. More specifically their use in triads (3 note chords). I also covered the C and G major scales last week and the week before [...]
I awoke one morning to a package on my doorstep. There were no flames, odors of dog do-do or anything that remotely appeared to be anthrax. (Although I’d love to meet Scott Ian someday) I open it up and see the O-Port… next question “What is an O-Port?” Well according to Dare Music Group who make the product that is [...]
Time for the next installment on major scales!. Last week I talked about the major scale pattern and covered a few different C Major scale positions on the neck. This week I am going to move on to the G major scale. It will follow the same major scale pattern but will start on G. The major scale pattern again [...]
Hello Everyone! I have a few articles I will be posting this week, warm-ups 102 and a continuation of major scales. I may throw up another one on triads if time permits. I just want to reiterate that a lot of what I am teaching now and will be throwing at you in the future may be building upon something [...]
Do you hate those commercials as much as I do? This week I want to talk about sight reading. More and more musicians claim they can’t read music. BB King, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix even Dave Brubeck seemed to have made comfortable livings without it. Why not learn to sight read? Can you say the alphabet? Then you can sight [...]
Hello, happy Labor Day weekend everyone. This week I need to branch off a bit, I will still continue talking about triads in another article, but I felt the need to start some coverage of the major scale. I love the major scale, so much of what we play and hear is based or named in relation to the major [...]
If you have a gig, practice, recording session or are just strumming a guitar, one of the most important things you can do is tune. Pointless Background Info. Somewhere back before The Rolling Stones first Farewell Tour in the late 1500s, 12-tone Equal Temperament Tuning started being used, but it wasn’t “the norm” until much later when it was adopted [...]
I wanted to switch gears a bit and talk about warm ups. I have 6 degrees of warm-ups that I bring my students through. I love them, they are a great way to stretch the muscles and improve dexterity, after a while you won’t even need to concentrate completely while doing them. You can do them while talking to your [...]
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