Subject: Jangly Guitars
Jangly Guitars
October 14th, 2017 at 9:44 am EDTHey Friend, The other day, my wife was watching a video of a-ha performing a live acoustic version of “Take On Me,” the hit from their 1985 album Hunting High And Low. After hearing it, she couldn’t get it out of her head. This version is arr ...
An Emotional Cornucopia
October 13th, 2017 at 8:34 am EDTHey Friend, Happy Friday the 13th! Anyone spooked or superstitious? While I do have my hang-ups and conspiracy theories, Friday the 13th isn’t one of them. My dad was born on the 13th and it never seemed to hold him back. Of course, he wasn’t b ...
Mapping Emotions to Intervals
October 12th, 2017 at 8:29 am EDTHey Friend, Alright, yesterday I told you that each note in a scale is also an interval between the root note of the scale and the note itself. I also told you that each interval in a scale has the power to evoke certain emotions. These emotions ha ...
Stimulating Dinner Conversations
October 11th, 2017 at 8:35 am EDTHey Friend, Again, sorry for slipping into “Geeky Dave” mode yesterday. To me, sound waves and frequencies are interesting, but oh boy, that’s a rabbit hole unto itself! I made a statement that knowing how sound works won’t help you create ...
Geeky Music Physics
October 10th, 2017 at 8:37 am EDTHey Friend, Okay, so you now know what the major and minor scales look like. The pattern of intervals is the template that lines the proper notes up so that those notes sound like a scale. Perfect. But scales do not a melody make. Scales are a r ...
The Trick to Doubling Your Knowledge of Scales
October 9th, 2017 at 8:36 am EDTHey Friend, How did you do with the natural keys I sent you Saturday? Pretty straightforward, yes? Something that should be abundantly clear to you by now is that the major scale sounds like the major scale, regardless of the key. If you stick with ...
Feeling Nostalgic
October 8th, 2017 at 9:55 am EDTHey Friend, I hope your weekend is going well. Yesterday, I was able to finish something from the never-ending list of household improvements, and it feels good to check it off. Hey, I need your help on something. With the passing of Tom Petty ear ...
All the Natural Major Scales
October 7th, 2017 at 10:33 am EDTHey Friend, This oughta keep you busy! I have for you each one of the open natural major scales in both PDF and MP3 formats for you to review and practice. Remember, by “open” I mean these scales are all played in the first position on the gui ...
Keys in the Scheme of Things
October 6th, 2017 at 8:35 am EDTHey Friend, Sent my baby girl off to Tallahassee this morning for a Cross Country race with her team. Wish we could have gone to watch and cheer… but j.o.b. Okay, back to notes. I want to make a point about different keys and the scales that come ...
The Quiz Answers From Yesterday
October 5th, 2017 at 8:31 am EDTHey Friend, Ooo, I got the new Sweetwater catalog in the mail yesterday! I love going through and looking at all the toys I’d love to buy. It’s like back in the day when the Sears catalog used to come out before Christmas with the expanded to ...