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iPhone LiveBlogging

June 29, 2007 By Graham English

3:28 - Some people will think we're all crazy. Some will totally get it. But I'm in line and I can't wait! There's around 40-60 people in front of me. I think that's a good sign. Not sure exactly when I got here. Probably a little before 3PM. I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Lifestream, Prose, Technology Tagged With: iPhone

Exclusive Interview With Award-Winning Songwriter, Andrea Stolpe

June 26, 2007 By Graham English

Listen in as I interview Andrea Stolpe, an award-winning songwriter who has penned songs for top artists like Faith Hill. Andrea graciously shares some of her new and original songwriting techniques from her new book, Popular Lyric Writing: 10 Steps … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Audio, Music Education Tagged With: Andrea Stolpe, interviews, lyric writing, podcast, podcasts, Samurai Songwriting, Songwriting, songwriting tips, story telling

Playing Outside: The Dominant 7 Pentatonic Scale Pattern 9

June 26, 2007 By Graham English

This dominant 7 pentatonic pattern spends a full beat in the original key, modulates to the "outside" key for two full beats, and then returns to the original key for the final beat. You can play around with this pattern and find some useful … [Read more...]

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

Hit Songwriting Tips Podcast 06-21-07

June 21, 2007 By Graham English

Andrea Stolpe, an award winning songwriter with writing credits for top artists like Faith Hill, shares some powerful and unique songwriting tips from her new book, Popular Lyric Writing: 10 Steps to Effective Storytelling. Andrea was kind enough … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Audio, Hit Songwriting Tips Podcast, Music Education Tagged With: advice, Andrea Stolpe, Berklee, hit songwriting, hit songwriting tips, Hit Songwriting Tips Podcast, hooks, interviews, lyric writing, Object Writing, podcasts, Songwriting, songwriting process, songwriting tips, storytelling, tips

Playing Outside: The Dominant 7 Pentatonic Scale Pattern 8

June 20, 2007 By Graham English

Similar to dominant 7 pentatonic pattern 3, just by playing around with two different scales, we can invoke many more different keys and harmonic shapes. This is the first pattern to start in the "outside" key. Download the full … [Read more...]

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

Append To OmniOutliner Quicksilver Action

June 20, 2007 By Graham English

One of my Twitter friends wished that you could use Quicksilver to append to an OmniOutliner document. This took me 5 minutes to whip up. I got the entire code from MacScripter and then wrapped it up as a Quicksilver action. It's pretty simple to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Prose, Technology Tagged With: AppleScript, hacks, OmniOutliner, Quicksilver, scripting, Twitter

Playing Outside: The Dominant 7 Pentatonic Scale Pattern 7

June 18, 2007 By Graham English

This dominant 7 pentatonic pattern gets challenging again. Like the previous pattern, it spends more time in the "outside" key. Only the first and fifth notes are in the original key. This means that you have to switch keys a total of three times … [Read more...]

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

Clarifications On Duplicate Content By Google

June 14, 2007 By Graham English

There were some excellent potential solutions to duplicate content discussed at the Duplicate content summit at SMX Advanced. I also learned a couple important points: Duplicate content doesn't cause your site to be penalized. If duplicate pages … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business, Prose Tagged With: duplicate content, Google, SEO, syndication, tips

Playing Outside: The Dominant 7 Pentatonic Scale Pattern 6

June 12, 2007 By Graham English

This dominant 7 pentatonic pattern spends more time in the "outside" key. Only the first full beat of each phrase is in the original key. Without looking at this pattern, can you play it? You should be getting more comfortable switching keys. Even if … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: dominant 7, exercises, free lessons, HowTo, jazz harmony, modal, modes, musical vocabulary, patterns, peak performance, pentatonic scales, playing outside, scales, tips, transposing

Where Do You Begin If You Think You’ve Been Penalized By Google?

June 12, 2007 By Graham English

Rand Fishkin has posted an excellent flow chart for determining how to handle a Google penalty. Speaking of Google penalties, Google webmaster tools just added a form to report paid links. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business, Prose Tagged With: best practices, Google, HowTo, reference, SEO, tips, tutorials, webmaster, workflow

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