Subject: Playing Over A Minor
Playing Over A Minor
December 21st, 2017 at 8:37 am EDTHey Friend, We’re up to the A minor chord in our study of how the C major intervals sound played over the chords that occur naturally within the key. The A minor chord is created by combining the A, C and E notes. If you recall, the C major scale ...
Playing Over G Major
December 20th, 2017 at 8:30 am EDTHey Friend, The perfect fifth interval for the key of C major is G. The triad that coincides is the G major chord, and like the F major chord yesterday, G sounds pretty good supporting a melody written in C. This is partly because the G note sound ...
Keeping Positive Over F Major
December 19th, 2017 at 8:32 am EDTHey Friend, The C major scale sounds pretty good over an F chord. The fact that the C note is part of the chord helps, I’m sure. The F major triad is made with the F, A and C notes, so the tonic of C major (C) clearly works well with it. It’s t ...
Playing Over E Minor
December 18th, 2017 at 8:35 am EDTHey Friend, Did you have a nice weekend? Hope so… Let’s get back to hearing what the C major scale sounds like played over the chords that naturally fit with the key (of C major). We’re up to E minor. Here is the MP3: Intervals over E mino ...
G.A.S. Inspiring...
December 17th, 2017 at 10:25 am EDTHey Friend, Every so often I like to head over to Premier Guitar online and check out a rig rundown. If you’re not familiar with what a rig rundown is, artists will do interviews in the middle of a tour and discuss all the gear they’re using on ...
More Fun Than Weekend Projects...
December 16th, 2017 at 9:05 am EDTHey Friend, Welcome to the weekend, We got fun ’n games, We got every kinda project honey, they’re different but the same… Ha, I couldn’t resist a little play on Guns ’n Roses “Welcome to the Jungle.” It seems G’NR is in my strea ...
Can You Hear It?
December 15th, 2017 at 8:33 am EDTHey Friend, Yesterday I mentioned that one tool a songwriter might use to move a melody in a direction is to place notes over chords that sound uncomfortable. Let’s say the topic is something uncomfortable or painful, like a breakup. The melody n ...
Playing Over D Minor
December 14th, 2017 at 8:35 am EDTHey Friend, Alright, happy Thursday. We’re rounding third base and on the slide into the weekend - Come on, Friday! I updated the MP3 for the intervals over the C major chord, so now there’s a half-note strum for each bar. This way you can hear ...
Intervals in Chords
December 13th, 2017 at 8:33 am EDTHey Friend, Well, I apologize. Turns out Christmas came a little early and I got ‘wrapped up’ in setting up a new iPhone. Now, I want you to understand… Even though I’ve worked in information technology for seventeen years, I’m not a gad ...
Playing the Scale Over C
December 12th, 2017 at 8:36 am EDTHey Friend, I thought for the first round of exercises, we’d keep it simple by listening to each interval played over a C major chord. Follow along on the PDF below and just listen to how the intervals sound. Each is played over four bars. Notic ...