Subject: From Notes to Scales
From Notes to Scales
May 4th, 2017 at 8:38 am EDTHey Friend, Hope you had a chance to read that interview with John 5 from yesterday. There’s actually a lot of useful tips in there - it’s not just some guitar guy talking about how fast he can play riffs. When we talked about intervals on Tues ...
John 5 - This is Cool...
May 3rd, 2017 at 8:41 am EDTHey Friend, You know how it is when you’ve got plans to get something done - you’re going to knock it out and cross it off your list - you know, you’re stoked because you’re gonna be done with it for good? And then you get into it - and it ...
Count Off
May 2nd, 2017 at 8:39 am EDTCount Off Hey Friend, Like I said yesterday, you don’t need to memorize the interval names to be a good musician. While they are kind of weird, you should at least be familiar with them so when they work their way into a conversation, you’ll be ...
Naming the Spaces
May 1st, 2017 at 8:42 am EDTHey Friend, Wow, can you believe it’s May 1st already? One third of year 2017 is behind us! I keep talking about the spaces between notes - the “tones” or “semitones” or “whole step/half steps” - how many frets are between two notes. ...
Here’s a Killer Finger Exercise
April 30th, 2017 at 8:48 am EDTHey Friend, Hope you’re having a good weekend. I only have a minute - it’ back to THE LIST today, and I have some catch-up from yesterday. I was looking through email from some of the guitar magazines I receive and saw this little gem of an ar ...
Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
April 29th, 2017 at 11:05 am EDTHey Friend, Whoo, it’s shaping up to be a hot one today in Central Florida! 77° already and promising to be in the 90s by mid-afternoon. It would be a great day to stay in-doors and work on getting better at guitar, but that is not to be for ol' ...
Counting Steps
April 28th, 2017 at 8:40 am EDTHey Friend, Yesterday, I started explaining a subtle concept about chord formation, that it’s not the individual notes that determine what the chord is, but the intervals used. I thought we’d look at a minor chord first, since we’ve been focus ...
It’s NOT the Notes, Though...
April 27th, 2017 at 8:38 am EDTHey Friend, As I was putting together yesterday’s email, I started thinking about the relationship between the key (and its resulting scale) and the chords that can be formed naturally within the key. By naturally, I mean that you only need the n ...
E Major as the VII Chord
April 26th, 2017 at 8:34 am EDTHey Friend, The last triad in the F# minor key lineup is E major. I IIdim III IVm Vm VI VII F#m G#dim A Bm C#m D E There are no surprises here - the notes that make up E major are part of the F# minor scale, so the chord fits naturally into any ...
D Major as the VI Chord
April 25th, 2017 at 8:19 am EDTHey Friend, D major shows up yet again! This time it’s the VI chord in the key of F# minor. I IIdim III IVm Vm VI VII F#m G#dim A Bm C#m D E Its notes are D, F# and A, and we know this because these are the 1 3 5 notes in the D major scale: 1 ...