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[RHYTHM] Visualizing Relative Beat Strength

March 2, 2009 By Graham English

Relative Beat Strength

I was taught to organize rhythms into increments of two measures at a time. Some beats/pulses get a natural emphasis in relation to their placement in the measure. I put together this illustration of the most natural points of relative emphasis in a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: beat strength, illustration, meter, music beats, Music Education, music fundamentals, music lessons, music notation, music perception, Music Theory, pulse, relative beat strength, rhythm, visualizing

Play Guitar Like A Rock Star — Free Five Part Guitar Course

September 21, 2006 By Graham English

Inside you'll learn... The proper way to hold a guitar -- you could be causing serious injury! Tips for buying a new guitar -- You really need to arm yourself well before you try haggling with your local guitar salesman. Light speed guitar … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: chord progressions, guitar, guitar course, guitar instruction, guitar lessons, guitar tablature, guitar tabs, guitar tuning, Jimi Hendrix, music lessons, tablature, tabs

Five Common Musicianship Problems – Which Ones Do You Want To Overcome?

August 14, 2006 By Graham English

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...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: coaching, deletions, Language, music lessons, MusicHacks, musicianship, NLP, questions

Top Secret Patterns (shhh, they’re free!)

July 18, 2006 By Graham English

Patterns are a great way of putting scales to work. Not only do they get you out of any do-re-mi rut, they expand your musical vocabulary. They also expand your mind by forcing you to think about systems within systems—and sometimes within … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: creativity, diminished patterns, diminished scale, music lessons, Music Theory, musical vocabulary, MusicHacks, patterns, scales, soloing, technique

Who Else Wants To Master the Diminished Scale?

June 15, 2006 By Graham English

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...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: creativity, diminished scale, John Coltrane, lessons, music lessons, Music Theory, MusicHacks, patterns, scales, symmetry

Free Online Relative Pitch Lesson

January 7, 2006 By Graham English

I just found a cool relative pitch lesson online. Songs to help you learn note intervals. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: intervals, music lessons, relative pitch

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