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Playing Outside: The Dominant 7 Pentatonic Scale Pattern 3

May 30, 2007 By Graham English

This dominant 7 pentatonic pattern is similar to the previous pattern. It still moves up a half step for a total of 2 notes in an eight note pattern. But this time, the transposed notes are the fifth and eighth notes in the sequence. This means that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: dominant 7, exercises, free lessons, HowTo, improvisation, jazz harmony, modal, modes, patterns, pentatonic scales, playing outside, saxophone, tips

Solo Transcriptions: Remember Synth Solo

May 24, 2007 By Graham English

I've got dozens and dozens of transcriptions that I've done over the years. Some of them have been formatted nicely using either Sibelius or Finale. The other day, as I was listening to the Bryan Adams Anthology, a synth solo caught my ear and I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: Bryan Adams, Ear Training, solo transcriptions, solos, synth solos, transcribing, transcriptions

Playing Outside: The Dominant 7 Pentatonic Scale Pattern 2

May 23, 2007 By Graham English

Dominant 7 Pentatonic Scale Pattern 2

If Dominant 7 Pentatonic Scale Pattern 2 seemed easy to you, I guarantee you'll find this next one more challenging. Last time, we took a four-note pattern and transposed it up a half step for the second half of the bar. This time, we're using a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: dominant 7, exercises, free lessons, HowTo, improvisation, jazz harmony, modal, modes, patterns, pentatonic scales, playing outside, saxophone, tips

Playing Outside: The Dominant 7 Pentatonic Scale Pattern 1

May 21, 2007 By Graham English

Dominant 7 Pentatonic Scale Pattern 1

John Coltrane loved the Dominant 7 Pentatonic Scale. During the 60s, Trane (and other avant-garde musicians like Ornette Coleman) created a unique and dissonant style of "playing outside" the chord changes. Often, they would play a half-step … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: dominant 7, exercises, free lessons, HowTo, improvisation, jazz harmony, John Coltrane, modal, modes, patterns, pentatonic scales, playing outside, saxophone, tips

Samurai Songwriting Issue 2 Is Now Available

May 17, 2007 By Graham English

It's time to dig into the second issue of Samurai Songwriting. If you're not a subscriber, join now. If you want to purchase just this issue, you can do that here: 1. Select your country USA Outside USA Here's what we … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: lyric writing, melody, Samurai Songwriting, Songwriting, songwriting tips

Last Chance To Get Issue 1 With Your Membership

May 16, 2007 By Graham English

If you're interested in subscribing to Samurai Songwriting, today is the best day to do it. Tomorrow, Issue 2 will be released and if you subscribe now, you'll have access to both Issue 1 and Issue 2. After tomorrow, Issue 1 will cost extra. So if … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: lyric writing, melody, Samurai Songwriting, Songwriting, songwriting tips

Append To Inbox Quicksilver Action

May 14, 2007 By Graham English

For some people, Quicksilver doesn't work as advertised. For example, I can't get the 'append to...' action to work as a trigger. And since there's one file that I'm continually appending, I wanted to customize my workflow. That's why I created my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Prose, Technology Tagged With: Apple, AppleScript, Growl, GTD, LifeHacks, Mac, OmniFocus, OmniOutliner, OSX, productivity, Quicksilver, software, TextMate

How To Become An Artist 2.0

May 13, 2007 By Graham English

Merlin Mann just pointed to a New York Times Magazine article about Jonathan Coulton and The Hold Steady. These artists are thriving in the post-CD music world through intimate virtual relationships with their fans. Music promotion through blogs … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business, Prose Tagged With: 43folders, AppleScript, Artist 2.0, artists, GTD, Jonathan Coulton, marketing, music 2.0, Music Promotion, MySpace, social networking, teleseminars, Web 2.0, workflow

Exclusive Interview With Songwriting Consultant, Molly-Ann Leikin

May 12, 2007 By Graham English

Listen in as I interview Molly-Ann Leikin, an award winning songwriter and songwriting consultant to over 4,000 successful songwriters! She's helped songwriters get Grammy nominations, win Emmys, and place songs in movies, TV, and CDs all over the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Audio, Music Education Tagged With: interviews, Molly-Ann Leikin, podcast, podcasts, Samurai Songwriting, Songwriting

Hit Songwriting Tips Podcast 05-20-07

May 12, 2007 By Graham English

Topics covered: Advice to developing songwriters, the art and craft of songwriting, strategies for writing hooks and melodies, a 7-step process to writing hit songs, and much more. Download: Hit Songwriting Tips Podcast 05-20-07 Subscribe … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Audio, Hit Songwriting Tips Podcast, Music Education Tagged With: advice, hit songwriting, hit songwriting tips, Hit Songwriting Tips Podcast, hooks, interviews, lyric writing, melody, podcasts, song titles, Songwriting, songwriting process, songwriting tips, tips

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