Subject: Going Home
Going Home
October 29th, 2017 at 10:10 am EDTHey Friend, I started to talk about the concept of tension a couple days ago before I was so rudely interrupted by technical difficulties and that j.o.b. thing! When you are playing the notes from a scale, the tonic note is the base of the scale. L ...
Did You Hear That?
October 28th, 2017 at 1:05 pm EDTTension: The Hidden Protagonist
October 27th, 2017 at 1:28 pm EDTHey Friend, Well, f#@$%!!! Had a technical snafu this morning. The Internet connection status light on the modem was flashing red and green, which is never a good sign. After resetting the modem a half a dozen times and calling for support, we were ...
Waves and Frequencies and Ratios, Oh My...
October 26th, 2017 at 8:35 am EDTHey Friend, We’ve come full circle with the major scale. The Perfect Octave interval brings us back to the root note of the scale, the same as the tonic except that the pitch is higher. As I’ve said before, the perfect octave sound wave has a v ...
The Major Seventh Bringing It Home
October 25th, 2017 at 8:36 am EDTHey Friend, We are in the home stretch along the major scale journey (how’d you like that baseball reference from a non-sporty guy?). Pretty sad that I didn’t even know the World Series was going on, let alone who’s playing in it! I am glad ...
Look Into My Eyes...
October 24th, 2017 at 8:35 am EDTHey Friend, Next in line is the Major Sixth interval. Where the perfect fifth sounded like it was a nice complement to the tonic, almost a resting place in the scale, the major sixth instills a sense of movement. You’ll feel a tension to move up ...
The Perfect Fifth Interval
October 23rd, 2017 at 8:36 am EDTHey Friend, The Perfect Fifth is an interesting interval because it is very similar to the tonic of the key. When we look at how sound waves interact and resonate, the perfect fifth is the next closest wavelength to the tonic as that of the octave. ...
The Perfect Fourth Interval
October 22nd, 2017 at 9:00 am EDTHey Friend, Getting back to the intervals, the next is the Perfect Fourth. This is the fourth note in a major scale. Tonic - we call this the root note most of the time; it’s the first note of the scale. In the key of C major, this note would be ...
Power Chord Tricks
October 21st, 2017 at 12:47 pm EDTHey Friend, Sorry for the lateness of this email today. Kid #2 had a cross country meet this morning and we’re just getting back from it. I won’t keep you but for a couple minutes. You know I’m a big fan of power chords, especially for beg ...
Running to Third (Major Third, That Is)
October 20th, 2017 at 8:33 am EDTHey Friend, The next interval in a major scale is the major third. Tonic - we call this the root note most of the time; it’s the first note of the scale. In the key of C major, this note would be C. Major Second - this is one whole step (tone) ...