Topics covered: Chord progressions, I-IV-V, The blues, classical music, mashups, melody, modal progressions, music software, rhythm... Download: Hit Songwriting Tips Podcast 08-22-06 … [Read more...]
Hearing and Consciousness
From Mind Hacks: Tips & Tools for Using Your Brain Hearing is the first sense we develop in the womb. The regions of the brain that deal with hearing are the first to finish the developmental process called myelination, in which the connecting … [Read more...]
The Rules and Principles of Counterpoint
These rules of counterpoint are simple and easy to memorize. Use them during the arranging phase of your music producing. Counterpoint: a composition which is written strictly according to technical rules. In earlier times, instead of our modern … [Read more...]
Hack Your Musical Mind
From Mind Hacks: All abilities are skills; practice something and your brain will devote more resources to it. Brain scanning of musicians has shown that they have larger cortical representations of the body parts they use to play their … [Read more...]
Absolute Pitch Ear Training Podcast 08-14-06
Topics covered: Distinctions exercise, certainty and uncertainty. Download: Absolute Pitch Ear Training Podcast 08-14-06 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
Deceptive Cadences
The progression from V to I has the name "authentic cadence" and from IV to I, "plagal cadence." A "deceptive cadence" is understood to mean the substitution for the expected progression, V-I, of the progressions V-VI or V-IV. The effect is strong … [Read more...]
Advice To Beginning Musicians
If you're new to the world of playing music or even if you're just now thinking about playing your very first note, here's my 7-step plan for beginning musicians: Get a cheap instrument. You probably have an idea of what instrument you want to play … [Read more...]
Define: Raga
1. A generic term for Indian scales, consisting of five, six, or seven different notes and calculated to create a certain mood. Each raga is suited to a particular time of day. The word itself comes from the Sanskrit meaning "color," so that an … [Read more...]
How To Master Musical Textures
If you need more compositional choices or your music needs more depth, you might want to play with the textural qualities of music. This won't be difficult because I've prepared a textural dictionary for you. Polyphonic, while literally meaning … [Read more...]
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