Subject: Turning a Corner...
Turning a Corner...
December 26th, 2017 at 8:35 am EDTHey [[fristname]], Morning! Hope you had a nice day and a chance to relax and unwind a bit yesterday. This time of year is usually pretty good for that. It’s also a good time to look back over the happenings of the past 12 months and think abou ...
Merry Christmas
December 25th, 2017 at 8:29 am EDTHey Friend, Merry Christmas! Thank you for being a part of the Learn to Play Rock Guitar family. I’m grateful to have your support and feedback. I hope you have an awesome day! Peace~ Dave Products I use, recommend and love: Easy Power Chords ...
Classic or Contemporary?
December 24th, 2017 at 9:16 am EDTHey Friend, For at least the last month, you couldn’t escape hearing Christmas music. Whether you were in the car listening to the radio, or in stores, the powers that be have been piping holiday songs over the air waves for weeks. This to me has ...
Holiday Music Fun Facts
December 23rd, 2017 at 10:20 am EDTHey Friend, We are racing into the holiday and end of year festivities. Tomorrow is Christmas Eve, and New Year's is a week away. I received a cool email a few days ago from Breedlove Guitars. In it, there’s some fun facts I thought I’d forward ...
C Scale Notes Over Bdim
December 22nd, 2017 at 8:33 am EDTHey Friend, Let’s wrap this up. The last triad in the key of C major is the B diminished chord (Bdim). B diminished is already a dissonant chord, and you are not going to see it used in Rock, Blues, or Country (okay, maybe a very rare occurrence) ...
Playing Over A Minor
December 21st, 2017 at 8:37 am EDTHey Friend, We’re up to the A minor chord in our study of how the C major intervals sound played over the chords that occur naturally within the key. The A minor chord is created by combining the A, C and E notes. If you recall, the C major scale ...
Playing Over G Major
December 20th, 2017 at 8:30 am EDTHey Friend, The perfect fifth interval for the key of C major is G. The triad that coincides is the G major chord, and like the F major chord yesterday, G sounds pretty good supporting a melody written in C. This is partly because the G note sound ...
Keeping Positive Over F Major
December 19th, 2017 at 8:32 am EDTHey Friend, The C major scale sounds pretty good over an F chord. The fact that the C note is part of the chord helps, I’m sure. The F major triad is made with the F, A and C notes, so the tonic of C major (C) clearly works well with it. It’s t ...
Playing Over E Minor
December 18th, 2017 at 8:35 am EDTHey Friend, Did you have a nice weekend? Hope so… Let’s get back to hearing what the C major scale sounds like played over the chords that naturally fit with the key (of C major). We’re up to E minor. Here is the MP3: Intervals over E mino ...
G.A.S. Inspiring...
December 17th, 2017 at 10:25 am EDTHey Friend, Every so often I like to head over to Premier Guitar online and check out a rig rundown. If you’re not familiar with what a rig rundown is, artists will do interviews in the middle of a tour and discuss all the gear they’re using on ...