Subject: The Key of E Minor
The Key of E Minor
March 21st, 2017 at 8:28 am EDTHey Friend, What do you think... ready to take a look at the next minor key? A minor was pretty easy to work with because we didn't have to mess around with sharps or flats. The resulting chords also had no sharps or flats to deal with. We won't be s ...
Why Music Sounds The Same
March 20th, 2017 at 8:33 am EDTHey Friend, Last night I tried to get caught up on my email inbox (always a challenge!) and took some time to listen in on one of my favorite Youtubers, Jim Lill. While Jim has his career in Country music, a lot of what he teaches can benefit us in t ...
Sunday Punk
March 19th, 2017 at 10:38 am EDTHey Friend, I gotta admit, I'm kinda spent today. Yesterday was a full day of fun trying to get the bathroom finished up (almost there...). Then we had to race off to the airport to pick up my daughter. She made her first successful trip without mom ...
Try Some Substitutions
March 18th, 2017 at 10:20 am EDTHey Friend, The wife is cracking the whip already! Just finished getting a ceiling fan working in the new bathroom. To her credit, she and my daughter got the thing put in the ceiling and wired, but the fan kept scraping on something and freezing up. ...
Happy St. Patrick's Day
March 17th, 2017 at 8:28 am EDTHey Friend, Happy St. Patrick's Day! As much as I love a good (?) green beer (uh, JK, make mine a Guinness!), there won't be much celebrating going on here. I am wearing green though - don't want to get pinched, you know. I'm mixing it up a bit today ...
Another A Minor Progression
March 16th, 2017 at 8:27 am EDTHey Friend, I'll tell you, navigating through the minefield that is our federal tax code is pretty frustrating. Trying to figure out what kind of education tax credits we qualify for is almost as bad as trying to get college financial aid! I don't k ...
The Ides of March
March 15th, 2017 at 8:30 am EDTHey Friend, "Beware the Ides of March" - William Shakespeare in Julius Caesar. It's March 15, the "Ides of March," the day Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC. I remember reading the play in junior high school. I think that's about the time I als ...
Altered Chords In A Minor
March 14th, 2017 at 8:34 am EDTHey Friend, We talked yesterday about the opening chord progression from "House of The Rising Sun" by The Animals. I explained that while the song was written in the key of A minor, that didn't prevent the writer from changing the chord to fit the mo ...
Using A Minor Progressions
March 13th, 2017 at 8:29 am EDTHey Friend, There are all sorts of things we can do with the chords from the key of A minor/C major, and there are plenty of songs that will attest to that fact. Remember House of the Rising Sun (The Animals)? How about Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppel ...
The Alex Lifeson Chord
March 12th, 2017 at 10:17 am EDTHey Friend, Gotta keep this one brief today... again. I didn't realize we were going through the bi-yearly time change and I was losing an hour. This one snuck up on me and did a number - we were up much later than normal waiting to pick up my younge ...