Loading ...The key of Db major! I can hear you all groaning now. Just remember it is merely a hiccup away from C major, everything is up one fret. I very rarely see this key but it does happen and therefore is helpful being acquainted. The Db major scale includes the first 5 flats in the order of flats, Bb Eb [...]
Hey Everyone, thanks for tuning in again this month. Let’s get right to the point, shall we? Today I’m going to demonstrate examples of jazz coordination using Ted Reed’s book “Syncopation”. Just to give you a little history lesson before we get started, the book wasn’t written with these exercises in mind. What you’re about to hear and see are [...]
We previously discussed sliding 6th chords. A Maj 6th chord is built with Root, Maj.3rd, 5th, and 6th notes of the related major scale. We wanted more of a triad sound, so we will discard the 5th of the chord. For an E6 chord, we would have E, G#, and C#, having discarded the B note. The E6 chord can [...]
In this week’s training session I want to cover the Ab major scale and exploratory exercises. For beginner players, focus on memorizing the notes of the scale and where they are on your fretboard. More experienced players can play through the exercises, the scale in 5ths, rhythmic variations and sample bass line as well as add the scale exercise ideas [...]
Today we’re going to take a look at linear drumming. The style certainly isn’t new, but it’s used so often in everyday playing that it would benefit all drummers to study it regularly. Linear, in drumming terms, refers to a line of single notes played one at a time. In other words, there are no stacked notes such as a [...]
Spring has sprung and training has begun! Just because we use our fine motor skills and not the gross ones does not mean we don’t work as hard as any of the ball players out there. They run laps and throw balls, we drill scales! In this weeks lesson I am tying in some old and introducing some new scale [...]
In last months issue I mentioned the words “sum of all your parts” and it got me thinking about the importance of being diverse. As a music and drumming educator for the past 18 years, I’ve noticed many students who only wish to focus on one style – usually rock & roll. And given rock’s propensity for stardom, and a [...]
In this weeks lesson, I want to cover one of the most commonly used scales, the Pentatonic Minor. This scale comes from the natural minor scale. If you have never heard of the natural minor scale, that is the scale formed when you start any major scale on its’ 6th degree. For example, take the notes of your Bb major [...]
Many rock songs, soul tunes, funk classics, and anything that is at all blues based, which is almost all of the music we hear today makes use of certain melodic and harmonic devices that are used so regularly that they’re considered clichés, which isn’t necessarily considered bad. A collection of guitarists as diverse as Steve Vai, Joe Walsh, Jimmy Page, [...]
The Ebow is a very popular electromagnetic device used to create infinite sustain on steel stringed musical instruments. It has been commercially available since the 1970s, and has been featured on thousands of recordings. The most primitive Ebow technique involves sustaining a single string while changing its pitch by altering the left hand fretting position. The advantage to this approach [...]
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