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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

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

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

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

Playing Outside: The Dominant 7 Pentatonic Scale Pattern 5

June 10, 2007 By Graham English

This dominant 7 pentatonic pattern gets tougher again. It has four notes in C and four notes in D flat but they are all spread throughout the bar. Again, this pattern helps you to get comfortable transposing quickly. And all of these patterns … [Read more...]

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

GTD: What Are You Doing Right Now Redux

April 20, 2007 By Graham English

My previous attempt at a time-tracking script worked well for a while. But I wanted something that was self-contained so I could share it with my friends and coworkers. I also wanted to cut down on key strokes. Since my internet connection has … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Prose, Technology Tagged With: Apple, AppleScript, GTD, HowTo, LifeHacks, Mac, Neuro-Logical Levels, NLP, OSX, peak performance, Practice, productivity, software, Technology, tools, tutorial, Twitter

GTD: Automator Wants To Know What You Are Doing Right Now

April 8, 2007 By Graham English

I'm into systems. I love figuring out how to get from point A to point B and then optimizing the process as efficiently as possible. Better yet, I love being able to turn a system on and not have to think about it again. This is one of those … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Prose, Technology Tagged With: Apple, AppleScript, behavior, best practices, entrepreneur, GTD, HowTo, LifeHacks, Mac, Neuro-Logical Levels, NLP, OSX, peak performance, Practice, productivity, software, Technology, tools, tutorial, Twitter

Quote of the Week

March 12, 2007 By Graham English

"To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time." -- Leonard Bernstein, conductor … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Lifestream, Prose Tagged With: GTD, peak performance, quotes

Quote of the Day

March 5, 2007 By Graham English

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.' -- Ludwig van Beethoven, composer … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Lifestream, Prose Tagged With: Beethoven, LifeHacks, peak performance, quotes

Marvin Gaye – A Sexy Patriot

February 10, 2007 By Graham English

You've got to check out this slow and sexy rendition of The Star Spangled Banner by Marvin Gaye. Then read a related story over at Thomas Dolby's blog. Marvin had it goin' on! … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Video Tagged With: peak performance, videos, YouTube

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