Subject: Breather...
Breather...
March 5th, 2017 at 8:37 am EDTHey Friend, You're getting a little breather today, at least from me. The renovation work was taking twice as long as I expected yesterday (I shoulda known it would), so I'm behind and need to try and catch up today. We'll get back into the wonderfu ...
Give Your Ears a Taste...
March 4th, 2017 at 9:05 am EDTHey Friend, Morning... I had a few minutes before diving into the weekend of renovation work, so I put some music on - something I haven't listened to before. I happened to get this particular album as a free bonus to something else. I don't even rem ...
The Difference One Note Can Make
March 3rd, 2017 at 8:34 am EDTHey Friend, You received a bunch of exercises yesterday for the B Diminished triad, the second chord in the A minor key. As I've been playing around with all these chords, I get to noticing little things here and there that keep it interesting. For i ...
B Diminished as the II° Chord
March 2nd, 2017 at 8:29 am EDTHey Friend, B diminished is the second naturally occurring chord in the key of A minor. If you remember, the major keys have a diminished chord as their seventh triad, so we saw this in the key of C major (the relative major to the key of A minor). B ...
Songs In A Minor
March 1st, 2017 at 8:30 am EDTHey Friend, If you're like me, before you became aware of things like "keys" and intervals, you didn't give any thought to the mechanics behind music other than the visible stuff like playing the instruments to create sound. You didn't know (or care) ...
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 ...