Subject: What Be Modes?
What Be Modes?
November 8th, 2017 at 8:29 am EDTHey Friend, How did your index/middle finger stretches go yesterday? Good? Good. You’re going to need that flexibility in the days to come! Keep stretching... When you are playing notes within a key (the scale notes), the notes line up according ...
Prep With a Stretch
November 7th, 2017 at 8:28 am EDTHey Friend, Didn’t we just start this month?! Here we are, one week into November, and it feels like I was standing still while it all passed by… Crazy how you can be busy all day long and get nothing done. Are you ready for some new patterns? ...
Expand Your Awareness
November 6th, 2017 at 8:34 am EDTHey Friend, Now that you have a set of patterns that can help you locate the key notes on the fingerboard, you can easily find any other note in a melody (or scale) simply by being aware of your position on the neck. You know there’s an E note at ...
A Good Petty Tribute
November 5th, 2017 at 8:33 am EDTHere’s An Octave Pattern
November 4th, 2017 at 8:40 am EDTHey Friend, Here’s another fun little pattern to help you remember where note are on the strings. If you need to find the perfect octave of a note quickly, try this little trick: Two over, two up. What does this mean? Two strings over, two fr ...
Slowly, The Secrets Reveal Themselves...
November 3rd, 2017 at 8:36 am EDTHey Friend, Yesterday, I gave you a very simple way to find the perfect fourth interval AND tune your guitar if you don’t happen to have a tuning device handy. You do this by starting with a reference note from another instrument, a tuning fork ...
Eureka, I Fixed It...
November 2nd, 2017 at 8:31 am EDTHey Friend, I solved a technical mystery last night that clears one of hurdles I had to making videos and recording guitars. It was kind of a big one, as I couldn’t get a good signal from the guitar into the recording interface. Since I switched ...
The Muscles Remember
November 1st, 2017 at 8:30 am EDTHey Friend, I hope your Halloween fun was all you hoped it to be. While the kids scored big time in the candy department, we didn’t have a single trick or treater stop at the house! Hmmm, what to do with all those extra goodies…? I think I see ...
Happy Halloween
October 31st, 2017 at 8:36 am EDTHey Friend, Mwa, ha, ha, ha, ha! Hello, my ghoulish guitar playing friends! I hope this message finds you in a particularly mischievous mood for tonight’s festivities. Will you be dealing treats, or partaking in tricks? My little devils (okay ...
Prelude To Another Pattern
October 30th, 2017 at 8:33 am EDTHey Friend, Can you believe it’s the end of October already? There’s a nip in the air, and for Central Florida, that’s sayin’ something! Now that we’ve learned the names of each interval in the major scale, I wanted to point something out ...