Subject: A Minor as the Two Chord
A Minor as the Two Chord
October 10th, 2016 at 8:12 am EDTHey Friend, Hope you had a good weekend. No, I didn't get an email out yesterday, so your mailbox is fine. I got a bit wrapped up in fine detail work (unfortunately, the mundane kind) that the day got away from me. Getting back to the key of G major, ...
Chord Substitution Demo
October 8th, 2016 at 1:24 pm EDTHey Friend, It's bright and sunny here in Orlando, like nothing happened over the past couple days. We were lucky - only random blips of the power going out, but it came right back. Thankfully, none of our trees came down, and the conservation area a ...
Ridin' The Storm Out
October 7th, 2016 at 8:59 am EDTHey Friend, It was a dark and stormy night... Remember that old cliched introduction to a spooky story? Yeah, not so much of a cliche here in Central Florida last night. Hurricane Matthew made sure there were plenty of thumps, bumps and creaks in th ...
Review of G Major Barre Chords
October 6th, 2016 at 8:22 am EDTHey Friend, First off, let me say that if you don't hear from me over the next few days, it's because we don't have any power. With Hurricane Matthew bearing down on us, we don't really know what to expect. All the news outlets are playing up on the ...
Begin With G Major
October 5th, 2016 at 8:32 am EDTHey Friend, The first chord in the key of G major is... that's right, G major. We saw it first in the key of C major where it is the fifth chord in the harmonic progression. It takes on a new role here in G major as the root chord for the key. If we ...
It's All In There
October 4th, 2016 at 8:39 am EDTHey Friend, As we found with the key of C major, all the chords that make up the harmonic progression for the key of G major are constructed using the notes from the key of G. Recall from yesterday the chords of G major: G Am Bm C D Em F#° Each on ...
Intro to The Key of G Major
October 3rd, 2016 at 8:30 am EDTHey Friend, Since talking about the Circle of Fifths last week, It's appropriate to look at the next key and set of chords.Our first journey into keys and chords was with the key of C major. By using the Circle of Fifths tool, we determined the next ...
Modulate, Daddy, Modulate...
October 2nd, 2016 at 2:47 pm EDTHey Friend, All this talk of determining notes in keys and understanding patterns and how all this relates to music fundamental has my mind going in all sorts of directions. I pointed out at the beginning of or Circle of Fifths discussion that G maj ...
Michelle's Question Redux
October 1st, 2016 at 12:16 pm EDTHey Friend, Coming back to Michelle's question from yesterday about the Circle of Fifths and determining notes in scales: Hi Dave, are these instructions only applicable to reading music? Or do they also apply to tablature? I talked about learning an ...
Michelle's Question
September 30th, 2016 at 8:22 am EDTHey Friend, Today I've got to be brief. I have to be in to work early, so the rushing has already started! I got an email from Michelle N. asking a question about the Circle of Fifths. She writes: Hi Dave, are these instructions only applicable to re ...