Subject: What's in a Name?
What's in a Name?
July 11th, 2016 at 11:20 am EDTHey Friend, Yes, it's true. I slacked. I did not send an email yesterday. Truth is, I was wiped out. Physically, that is. On Saturday, we decided to continue our project of tearing out a retaining wall so that we can have some other repairs done. I ...
Week 2 Review
July 9th, 2016 at 10:57 am EDTHey Friend, Hope you're having a great weekend, with lots of time to rock it out on your guitar. Here's a review of what we covered over the last week. Enjoy! Week 2 Review Just right-click the link here and select "Save as..." to copy it down to yo ...
Chord Numbering
July 8th, 2016 at 12:00 pm EDTHey Friend, Based on most of the responses I've received back about my questions to you, either I'm a really good teacher, or you guys are just really smart. I'm banking on the "you're really smart." Anyway, since we've covered notes and scales, and ...
Checkin' In...
July 7th, 2016 at 11:21 am EDTHey Friend, I must confess, the time got away from me, so the guitar lesson is missing today. My daughter went for her orientation at college yesterday and today. Between helping her find her way home and then hearing all about her day, it was late ...
Intervals of C
July 6th, 2016 at 11:18 am EDTHey Friend, I recently gave you a rundown on the intervals involved in the major scale. Yesterday, I focused on the C major scale because it's the only "clean" major scale out there, meaning you don't have to remember where any sharps or flats are - ...
One Three Five
July 5th, 2016 at 11:12 am EDTHey Friend, Last time, I introduced you to the major scale. We looked at the intervals involved in creating a major scale, and I gave you a simple pattern to help you learn it quickly. Like I said before, learn your patterns well - so well that you d ...
Happy 4th of July
July 4th, 2016 at 9:01 am EDTHey Friend, On this day, 240 years ago, thirteen little British colonies signed a document called the Declaration of Independence, sparking the American Revolutionary War. They were telling the British that there's a new kid in town, the United State ...
The Major Scale
July 3rd, 2016 at 11:15 am EDTHey Friend, Now that we know a little about notes and intervals, it's time to begin turning them into something. You learned about the chromatic scale - that it is made up of every possible note available to us. You also learned that it's a good scal ...
Week 1 Review
July 2nd, 2016 at 11:18 am EDTHey Friend, Hope you're having a good Saturday! I've put together a quick summary of the stuff we talked about this past week. You can download a PDF of the review right here. I know I covered a lot of material that isn't necessary to understand. Yo ...
The Intervals
July 1st, 2016 at 12:00 pm EDTHey Friend, Sounds like a cool band name, huh? We talked a little about the Tonic note yesterday. That is the root note of the key, the first note in the line up. In the future when we talk about chord construction, I'm going to call it the "one" not ...