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You Got What You Wanted From Me

April 21, 2008 By Graham English

Download: You Got What You Wanted From Me Last.fm: You Got What You Wanted From Me I went outside and I looked all around But baby you were nowhere to be found Just a note on your side of the bed We are over, was all you said My eyes were … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Audio, Music Tagged With: 106bpm, 2008, blues, Ebmin, funky, hammond, MULTI TRACK, organ, pop, rock, Song a Week 2008, vocals, wurly

Music from 12-06-05

December 4, 2006 By Graham English

I've taken a few months off of posting music here but I'm back in the saddle now. It took a while to get my work flow down after my move to Boston. So I'll be archiving all my new and old music again. This is an [tag]iPod[/tag] recording of a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Audio, Music Tagged With: 60bpm, acoustic bass, blues, Charlie Parker, frenetic, G, gospel, iPod, LIVE, Parkers Mood, piano, piano solo, piano trio, slow blues, spacious, turnaround

Hit Songwriting Tips Podcast 08-22-06

August 22, 2006 By Graham English

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...]

Filed Under: Audio, Hit Songwriting Tips Podcast, Music Education Tagged With: blues, chord changes, chord progressions, classical music, Hit Songwriting Tips Podcast, mashups, melody, modal, modes, music software, podcasts, rhythm, Songwriting, SongwritingHacks

The Musical Genius of Oscar Peterson

July 31, 2006 By Graham English

Listen to the Oscar Peterson Trio ripping at tempos upwards of 320bpm! Let it inspire you to practice. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Video Tagged With: blues, inspiration, jazz, Oscar Peterson, piano, videos, YouTube

Music for 06-22-06a

June 22, 2006 By Graham English

This is a warm up on a cool and dreary day. 0:56: Turn around into the blues in Bb. 75bpm. 1:57: Working on my hand interdependence here. 3:55: Charlie Parker's bebop classic Parker's Mood. I should memorize this solo better because it's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Audio, Music Tagged With: 75bpm, acoustic bass, Bb blues, Bb7, bebop, blues, Charlie Parker, cool, Count Basie, dreary, jazz, LIVE, Parkers Mood, piano, piano bass duo, piano solo, walking bass

Music for 02-23-06e

February 23, 2006 By Graham English

This final thing for the day is an F7 shuffle on the hammond organ. Wanna hear a badas5 solo? Listen to this, biatch! Wish I had the pedals. Damn I love Jimmy Smith. Download: Music for 02-23-06e … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Audio, Music Tagged With: 125bpm, blues, F7, hammond, Jimmy Smith, LIVE, organ solo, shuffle

How Do You Develop New And Interesting Chord Changes?

February 8, 2006 By Graham English

Here's a handful of my top techniques that I use to develop new and interesting chord changes. 1. Stick with I-IV-V I know, it's not new, but I-IV-V doesn't have to be uninteresting. There's a reason why these chords are so fundamental to our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: blues, chord changes, chord progressions, classical music, contrast, mashups, melody, modal, modes, music software, rhythm, Songwriting, songwriting techniques, SongwritingHacks

Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground

December 15, 2005 By Graham English

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Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground by Blind Willie Johnson. Johnson was blinded at an early age. The story goes that his stepmother threw lye in his face in a fit of rage. His home burned down in '45 and having nowhere else to go, he lived in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Lifestream, Prose Tagged With: blues

The Golden Mean in Harmony Part 1

December 9, 2005 By Graham English

If you ride chaos all the way out to its edge, you find beauty and order... and the Blues Chaos: complete disorder and confusion; behavior so unpredictable as to appear random, owing to great sensitivity to small changes in conditions; the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: blues, chaos theory, circle of fifths, fractals, fundamental, golden mean, golden section, harmonics, harmony, Music Theory, overtones, partials, phi, pythagoras, scales, sound, Western harmony

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