Subject: Stimulating Dinner Conversations
Stimulating Dinner Conversations
October 11th, 2017 at 8:35 am EDTHey Friend, Again, sorry for slipping into “Geeky Dave” mode yesterday. To me, sound waves and frequencies are interesting, but oh boy, that’s a rabbit hole unto itself! I made a statement that knowing how sound works won’t help you create ...
Geeky Music Physics
October 10th, 2017 at 8:37 am EDTHey Friend, Okay, so you now know what the major and minor scales look like. The pattern of intervals is the template that lines the proper notes up so that those notes sound like a scale. Perfect. But scales do not a melody make. Scales are a r ...
The Trick to Doubling Your Knowledge of Scales
October 9th, 2017 at 8:36 am EDTHey Friend, How did you do with the natural keys I sent you Saturday? Pretty straightforward, yes? Something that should be abundantly clear to you by now is that the major scale sounds like the major scale, regardless of the key. If you stick with ...
Feeling Nostalgic
October 8th, 2017 at 9:55 am EDTHey Friend, I hope your weekend is going well. Yesterday, I was able to finish something from the never-ending list of household improvements, and it feels good to check it off. Hey, I need your help on something. With the passing of Tom Petty ear ...
All the Natural Major Scales
October 7th, 2017 at 10:33 am EDTHey Friend, This oughta keep you busy! I have for you each one of the open natural major scales in both PDF and MP3 formats for you to review and practice. Remember, by “open” I mean these scales are all played in the first position on the gui ...
Keys in the Scheme of Things
October 6th, 2017 at 8:35 am EDTHey Friend, Sent my baby girl off to Tallahassee this morning for a Cross Country race with her team. Wish we could have gone to watch and cheer… but j.o.b. Okay, back to notes. I want to make a point about different keys and the scales that come ...
The Quiz Answers From Yesterday
October 5th, 2017 at 8:31 am EDTHey Friend, Ooo, I got the new Sweetwater catalog in the mail yesterday! I love going through and looking at all the toys I’d love to buy. It’s like back in the day when the Sears catalog used to come out before Christmas with the expanded to ...
The Pattern is Proven
October 4th, 2017 at 8:32 am EDTHey Friend, Sorry about the obscenities yesterday. I was upset and got a little emotional. Tom Petty’s passing was a punch to the gut, so last night I did something about it. I took some time to pop into my Guitar Tricks account and go through ...
What the H - E - Double - Hockey Sticks (L - L)…
October 3rd, 2017 at 8:30 am EDTHey Friend, Shit!!! Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit! Rock and Roll just lost another American icon. Mr. Tom Petty, gone at the age of 66. What the hell is going on?!? I am sitting here, choked up and speechless. Damn the Torpedoes had to be my f ...
Rules of Engagement
October 2nd, 2017 at 8:32 am EDTHey Friend, Let’s get back to melody and how notes work together. We talked about there being specific patterns of intervals (spaces between notes) that determine what a scale will be. The first pattern we’re looking at is for the major scale. ...