Subject: The Pattern is Proven
The Pattern is Proven
October 4th, 2017 at 8:32 am EDTHey Friend, Sorry about the obscenities yesterday. I was upset and got a little emotional. Tom Petty’s passing was a punch to the gut, so last night I did something about it. I took some time to pop into my Guitar Tricks account and go through ...
What the H - E - Double - Hockey Sticks (L - L)…
October 3rd, 2017 at 8:30 am EDTHey Friend, Shit!!! Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit! Rock and Roll just lost another American icon. Mr. Tom Petty, gone at the age of 66. What the hell is going on?!? I am sitting here, choked up and speechless. Damn the Torpedoes had to be my f ...
Rules of Engagement
October 2nd, 2017 at 8:32 am EDTHey Friend, Let’s get back to melody and how notes work together. We talked about there being specific patterns of intervals (spaces between notes) that determine what a scale will be. The first pattern we’re looking at is for the major scale. ...
Need a Laugh?
October 1st, 2017 at 9:34 am EDTHey Friend, Sorry about yesterday’s email. With two kids going in opposite directions, sometimes the best laid plans need to be scrapped and you just have to go with the flow. I had planned on giving you the rules that must be followed when apply ...
Getting into The Majors
September 29th, 2017 at 8:34 am EDTHey Friend, The Major scale is the foundation for making all melodies and chords. So the pattern you use to play the major scale is like the scale’s daddy. The pattern is created from combining a specific series of whole step and half step interv ...
Musical Puzzles
September 28th, 2017 at 8:33 am EDTHey Friend, Are you ready to start learning one of the most important concepts in music? I’m talking huge - a major epiphany? This one concept will unlock not only your understanding of notes and melody, but it will clear up questions about har ...
You Want Half, or Whole? You Can Have Them Both...
September 27th, 2017 at 8:33 am EDTHey Friend, Alright, so seven note names… Yesterday, I hinted that we only need to know the names for seven of the twelve possible notes used in music today (at least Western music). Those notes are A, B, C, D, E, F and G. But we have twelve fre ...
7 Notes for 7 Rockers
September 26th, 2017 at 8:34 am EDTHey Friend, Yesterday I mentioned that there are a total of 12 pitches that we use in music, but I also mentioned that we really only need to start off learning seven of those twelve. Seven is an important number because it tells us how many notes ...
That Crazy Greek Pythagoras
September 25th, 2017 at 8:34 am EDTHey Friend, At the very basest of levels, melody starts out as a single pitch (note). But one note a melody does not make! As the definition goes, melody is... ...a collection of pitches that all together form a pleasing or satisfying piece. ...
Learn the All Best Songs by The Who
September 24th, 2017 at 11:40 am EDTHey Friend, One of my favorite guitar learning sites is at it again. Guitar Tricks has licensed MORE songs from The Who for your learning pleasure! Back in July, they laid out the first batch of instructional videos for these songs:BargainI Can't ...