Posts Tagged ‘music lessons’

March 2nd, 2009
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Visualizing Relative Beat Strength

I was taught to organize rhythms into increments of two measures at a time. Some beats/pulses get a natural emphasis in relation to their placement in the measure. I put together this illustration of the most natural points of relative emphasis in a 2-measure unit of rhythm.


September 21st, 2006
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Play Guitar Like A Rock Star — Free Five Part Guitar Course

Inside you’ll learn…

The proper way to hold a guitar — you could be causing serious injury!
Tips for buying a new guitar — You really need to arm yourself well before you try haggling with your local guitar salesman.
Light speed guitar tuning techniques.
How to read tablature — in a few short minutes — and discover its [...]


August 14th, 2006
10:55 am
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Five Common Musicianship Problems – Which Ones Do You Want To Overcome?

Most of the music coaching and teaching I do involves information gathering. It’s important for me to clearly identify what musical challenges my students are having so that I don’t fix something that ain’t broke and so I impact the problem in a way that is truly useful.
Are You Unconsciously Hitting Delete?
With all of my [...]


July 18th, 2006
11:12 am
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Top Secret Patterns (shhh, they’re free!)

Patterns are a great way of putting scales to work. Not only do they get you out of any do-re-mi rut, they expand your musical vocabulary. They also expand your mind by forcing you to think about systems within systems—and sometimes within other systems. For example, this diminished pattern is a three note system:

within another [...]


June 15th, 2006
10:19 am
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Who Else Wants To Master the Diminished Scale?

The diminished scale is an extremely creative tool. Due to the diminished chord’s symmetrical structure of stacked minor thirds, we have two options of diminished scales: half step-whole step and whole step-half step.

A major benefit to this scale is that you only have to learn it in three different keys since it repeats itself every [...]


January 7th, 2006
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Free Online Relative Pitch Lesson

I just found a cool relative pitch lesson online. Songs to help you learn note intervals.



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I'm a songwriter and recording artist who sings, plays keyboards, and explores the vast world of sound hoping to find some magical moments along the way. I'm also a Mac geek.

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