Subject: A Minor Exercises
A Minor Exercises
February 28th, 2017 at 8:29 am EDTHey Friend, Last day of February 2017! Man, this year is flying by! We've been talking about the key of A minor, and I promised to get you some exercise files. If you've been around here since the beginning and good old C major, then you have these. ...
A Minor I (One) Chord
February 27th, 2017 at 8:31 am EDTHey Friend, So let's get started with the study of the key of A minor. This key is the relative minor of the key of C major. In case you missed any of last week's info, every major key has a relative minor key associated with it, and vice versa. The ...
Dirty Jobs
February 26th, 2017 at 11:18 am EDTHey Friend, Well, as you can see, this is coming extra late on a Sunday morning. That's 'cause I'm covered in dust from sanding joint compound. Like I said Friday, my wife's been cracking the whip to get this bathroom done ASAP! I'm taking a break wh ...
It's Zeppelin, Man...
February 25th, 2017 at 8:40 am EDTHey Friend, I have a few minutes before I need to put my nose to the grindstone, so I thought I'd point you to something fun today. I'll let someone else do a little teaching today! In my travels on the World Wide Webs, I got tipped off to an article ...
The Key to Understanding
February 24th, 2017 at 8:31 am EDTHey Friend, As you may have surmised, we are starting to look at the most common minor keys you'll see in Rock music. I've been using C major and its relative minor A minor as the initial study because they are the easiest to learn. This is because o ...
Contrasting Keys
February 23rd, 2017 at 8:27 am EDTHey Friend, I put together a short exercise for you that runs you through playing the major key chord progression and then the minor. All the same chords are used, only the starting point changes. The first progression is in the key of C major. As yo ...
The Minor Key Harmonic Progression
February 22nd, 2017 at 8:31 am EDTHey Friend, Sounds exciting, yes? Quick review... Major keys have relative minor keys and vice versa. These relative keys share the same notes - the only difference is which note happens to be the root (tonic). It's really easy to determine what the ...
Know Your Relatives
February 21st, 2017 at 8:33 am EDTHey Friend, Now that we've established what the scale pattern is for the minor keys, let's talk more about the relationship between major and minor keys. You saw yesterday how the major scale pattern and the minor scale pattern are the same, just shi ...
Next On The Agenda...
February 20th, 2017 at 8:30 am EDTHey Friend, We've covered a lot of ground with regards to the most common major keys and their chords. So far we've studied the keys of C, G, D, A and E major. And we could continue along this path and look at B major, and that would finish out the n ...
E Major Progression Exercise 6
February 19th, 2017 at 8:41 am EDTHey Friend, Alright, let's do one more progression from E major before we move on to new adventures. I decided to use some different inversions of the chords so you can hear the difference in action. The progression is a I V IV pattern, which means w ...