Subject: Slowly, The Secrets Reveal Themselves...
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 ...
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 ...