Subject: Welcome to the Hotel Chromatica
Welcome to the Hotel Chromatica
February 4th, 2018 at 9:34 am EDTHey Friend, You like that? I’m a wordsmith, ha, ha. On Friday, we talked about using chromatic notes to make musical phrases more interesting. Today, I’ve got an example for you. The Exercises What I did was tabbed out the C major scale in th ...
More Than Just a Warm-up Exercise
February 2nd, 2018 at 8:33 am EDTHey Friend, Happy Friday! Hope you had a good week. Remember the chromatic scale? That’s the one where you play each consecutive fret as you move up or down the notes - half-step intervals the whole way. This is like THE most basic pattern you ...
You Can’t Escape Them...
January 31st, 2018 at 8:37 am EDTHey Friend, Wow - January 31st! One 12th of the year - gone, already! I hope the rest of the year doesn’t fly by so fast. And yet I know, in eleven months I’m going to be looking back thinking the same thing. Here it is, though - we all know we ...
See What You Can Do With These In Your Chord Progressions
January 28th, 2018 at 9:44 am EDTHey Friend, Today, we’re looking at an example of using hammer-ons and pull-offs in chords. I mentioned on Wednesday that by switching up some open chords can easily be done by changing the three note of the chord. You can change the note to the ...
Recycle your Guitar Strings
January 26th, 2018 at 8:34 am EDTHey Friend, One of the maintenance tasks that all guitarists face is changing out your strings. The more you play your guitar, the more often you should change your strings. Why? Over usage and time, strings start to lose their tonal qualities. As ...
Use These to Spice Up Your Chord Progressions
January 24th, 2018 at 8:28 am EDTHey Friend, In the last email (Sunday), we talked about a couple simple techniques guitarists use on a regular basis - the hammer-on and pull-off. With these techniques, we can create simple patterns that sound cool and help speed up melodic riff ...
A Simple Pattern To Build Your Soloing Chops
January 21st, 2018 at 9:03 am EDTHey Friend, The past couple of emails I’ve sent have been a bit long on extolling the virtues of recognizing patterns in your playing (as well as your life). There are big pattern shifts that can lead to major changes in your life, and there are ...
The Tyranny of Patterns (Habits)
January 19th, 2018 at 8:34 am EDTHey Friend, What patterns are holding you back and keeping you from accomplishing your guitar goals? Noodling? Not practicing? Not using a metronome? Youtube surfing? Lack of a schedule? See, we have good patterns - those that help us move towar ...
Break The Mold
January 17th, 2018 at 8:28 am EDTHey Friend, Have you ever given any thought to how patterns shape our lives? Nearly everything we do can be equated to a pattern:The morning routine The daily commute The weekly meeting Get up, go to work, come home, go to bed... Your pattern mig ...
Adding The Major Third
January 14th, 2018 at 1:22 pm EDTHey Friend, Hope your Sunday is going well! I created some exercises for you showing how you can harmonize notes in a scale. Add Major Third PDF Add Major Third MP3 In the first system (the first of the three sections), the C major scale is bee ...