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Numbers As Intervals In Music
A lot of times, when referring to an interval, people will refer to it as a Number instead of the actual note. The example is that A B C# D E F# can be written as 1 2 3 4 … Continue reading
Posted in Blogroll, Marketing, Sightreading, Theory, Video
Tagged Harmony, Key Signatures, Modes, Numbers, Scales, Sightreading, Theory
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Silence Is Golden
Silence is the most powerful and important part in conversation, presentations, and even music. Too many times I see people walking down the street with their iPods or mp3 players. I feel its important that people take a break from … Continue reading
Posted in Featured, Marketing, Technique, Theory, Video
Tagged Apple, iPods, Music Lessons Composition, Silence Is Golden
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Easy Way To Learn Scales
Learning scales can be difficult. There are a few tricks to going about and speeding up the process. Understand that there are also Modes, too. You’ll be happy to learn that all the chords you know, as well as the … Continue reading
Posted in Chords, Technique, Theory, Video
Tagged Key Signatures, Minor Key, Modes, Parallel Major, Scales, Theory
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Jimmy Goss And Walt Teach Guitar
Jimmy Goss is hilarious. Here we discuss practicing, power chords, and have a good time. I can’t stop laughing watching this. He was new to the whole online video idea! We discuss a few things, and answer a few questions. … Continue reading
Posted in Chords, Interviews, Technique, Theory
Tagged Jimmy Goss, Music Lessons, Power Chords, Practicing, Tutorials
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Sforzando, Crescendos, Tremolos, And More!
Sforzando = when an attack hits hard, diminuendos, and then crescendos… all in one attack Crescendos = making the music increasingly louder Tremolos = rapidly attacking the note Dynamics = mezzo forte, forte, piano, mezzo piano. Indicating how loud or … Continue reading
Posted in Ear Training, Sightreading, Theory
Tagged Accents, Crescendos, Dynamics, Hairpins, Sforzando, Tremolos
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Sibelius 6 Intro
Sibelius 6 is the latest installment of the best music engraver around. There are a bunch of new features in this one that my older version didn’t have. One of them is “Panoramic View”, which allows the sheet music to … Continue reading
Reading Two Lines On One Staff (Stave)
The original is in the staff below. Above is where I circled where the two lines are that a piano player would play. There are two voices, as a result, one if for the left hand (red) and the other … Continue reading
Posted in Chords, Piano, Sightreading, Theory
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Tension Chords
Using tension in your chords is very effective. Music (and life) is all a series of tension and release. So to play a chord that is outside of a key signature, it creates tension, which makes your ear NEED to … Continue reading
Posted in Chords, Theory
Tagged Chords, Consonance, Dissonance, Harmony, Inversions, Songwriting, Tension
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Flavor Chords
Using basic chords might be all that is called for – but what if you wanted to add color? What about piano? Well, look no further! Here is a quick overview (pun intended) of the basic idea of adding flavor … Continue reading
Posted in Chords, Copyright, Piano, Theory
Tagged Composition, Extensions, Flavor, Harmony, Piano, Sus, Tensions
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Modulation Explained!
Modulation is the idea of changing keys in a song. Learn more here!
Posted in Chords, Sightreading, Technique, Theory
Tagged Guitar, Harmony, Intervals, Key Change, Key Signature, Modulation, Music Lessons, Note Tonality, Piano, Songwriting, Transpose
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Class 19: Weird Symbols In Music Explained!
All those weird symbols in Music Explained! This is from my Revision 3 Beta Show which is along side the Revision 3 Networks channels.
Inversions Explained!
Inversions in music are the idea of ‘flipping’ two notes around. So in stead of the intervals from C to G (which is 5 notes away – C D E F G) you simply invert that creating an interval from … Continue reading
Posted in Chords, Piano, Technique, Theory
Tagged EADGBE, EGBDF, FACE, Guitar, Harmony, Intervals, Inversions, Music Lessons, Octaves, Piano, Rule Of 9, Sightreading, Tutorials
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Slurs And Ties
More on Slurs and Ties click here!
Posted in Blogroll, Sightreading, Theory
Tagged duration, EGBDF, How To Read Music, Quarter Notes, Sheet Music, Sightreading, Slurs, Staffs, Ties, Time Signatures
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