Subject: Happy Father’s Day
Happy Father’s Day
June 18th, 2017 at 9:31 am EDTHey Friend, Just want to take a quick moment to say Happy Father’s Day to all of you dads. We all have a male contributor in our lives, but that doesn’t necessarily make them a father - or Dad. I hope you have been fortunate enough to have a g ...
Get the Blues Today
June 17th, 2017 at 8:27 am EDTHey Friend, Found a cool video that locks in some of what we’ve been talking about for the past few weeks. This one is more focused on Blues tones and phrasing, but it expands on one of the lessons we did earlier. I mentioned that the dominant 7t ...
Mixing 7ths 4
June 16th, 2017 at 8:23 am EDTHey Friend, I actually remembered to create a separate exercise MP3 demonstrating today’s lesson’s standard progression. Yay me (sorry, way too many years having to watch Disney channel with my kids)! I think this will be the last generic demon ...
Mixing 7ths 3
June 15th, 2017 at 8:40 am EDTHey Friend, Well that was a "fun" little excursion to the edge. If nothing else, my little household emergency over the past few days has slapped me "upside the head” with a reminder that I’ve got some changes that have to happen if I’m going ...
It’s Not The End of the World, But...
June 14th, 2017 at 8:33 am EDTHey Friend, Sorry to say we’re on Day 2 of a household meltdown and the nerves are a bit frazzled… and well, preoccupied. Hope to have the issues stabilized today so I can get my head back on straight (well, as straight as it’s going to get, ...
Keeping’ On...
June 13th, 2017 at 8:37 am EDTHey Friend, Guitars are tough, but they have their limits. Just like people. The most vulnerable part of a guitar is its neck. Whenever you have a component that extends out from a main body, there’s always the danger that an accident could damag ...
Mixing 7ths Part 2
June 12th, 2017 at 8:35 am EDTHey Friend, Monday morning… Good Morning Starshine… Get your hippie groove on! Got a new exercise for you today. In this one, we’re mixing up some 7ths and a couple major chords. The standard progression would be I IIIm IV V, but I’ve chan ...
Sunday, Veggin’ Sunday...
June 11th, 2017 at 11:45 am EDTHey Friend, Getting a late start this morning, and I’m pretty distracted, to be honest. I had a song in my head (The Red Barchetta, by Rush), which had me jumping over to Youtube. Of course, before I had a chance to play the video, I got sucked i ...
Easy 7th Chord Progression
June 10th, 2017 at 10:34 am EDTHey Friend, As I was sitting down to start our morning chat, I realized I may have jumped the gun a little with the exercise from yesterday. I got you mixing up major, minor and 7th chords, and we haven’t even looked at common progressions using ...
Mixing 7ths
June 9th, 2017 at 8:27 am EDTHey Friend, Since we have covered what the various 7th chords look and sound like, I thought the next logical step is to start using them in some actual progressions. The exercise today takes its lead from a standard key of A progression, but I’v ...