Articles in the Theory Category
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
