In honor of my brother's birthday. He turns 30 today. Happy Birthday Brian! :) Here it is inverted: Here it is backwards: First person to guess the original melody gets a free standard edition of Absolute Pitch Power. Post your answer in … [Read more...]
Internalize And Eternalize The Music By Transcribing Solos
A time honored tradition for learning the ins and outs of a specific discipline is by transcription. Monks transcribe sacred texts in order to internalize the teachings. Writers copy their favorite authors' books in order to assimilate their style. … [Read more...]
Keith Jarrett On The Art Of Improvisation
Found via 92Y Blog: Keith Jarrett on Improvisation: Absurdly talented jazz and classical pianist Keith Jarrett offers insight into the art of improvisation in a documentary screening at Makor tomorrow night. "The miracle of playing is all I … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
Why Is Absolute Pitch More Refined Than Relative Pitch?
Simply put, absolute pitch is more subtle and accurate. With relative pitch, there are twelve major chords. With absolute pitch, there is only one C major chord. The distinctions you can make with absolute pitch are finer and smaller. And each note … [Read more...]
The World’s Most Important 6-Sec Drum Loop
This brilliant twenty-minute video is about the history of the "Amen Break," a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music. It became the … [Read more...]
The Ear Training You Do Today…
...is for tomorrow's ears. As you learn new skills or behaviors, neurons connect into new groups of cognitrons, where the connecting synapses are reinforced with repeated use. In other words, these new ideas need to "shake hands" a number of times … [Read more...]
Random Word Generator
Just found a new and free random word generator. It creates random sentences and paragraphs too. But the best part is random word plus. You can choose the word type and the word complexity. If you were to add syllables and stress you would have a … [Read more...]
Quit On A High Point
Traditionally, learning new skills concentrates on rote repetition, reiterating the skill a large number of times until it is consistently performed correctly. But recent developments in learning theory, which have been applied with particular … [Read more...]
What’s your biggest musical challenge?
Imagine that you were the ideal musician. Whatever that looks like to you, tell me what challenges are presently holding you back from being that musician? I'll do my best to answer those questions on this blog. So be sure to subscribe on the next … [Read more...]
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