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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
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Tagged Harmony, Key Signatures, Modes, Numbers, Scales, 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
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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
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Tagged Composition, Extensions, Flavor, Harmony, Piano, Sus, Tensions
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Half Diminished Chords Explained!
Notice the double Flat 7th interval – this is the only difference between a Diminished and a Half Diminished Chord. What are Half Diminished Chords? Half Diminished Chord are built on this harmony: R b3, b5, b7. So in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Chords, Diminished, Half-Diminished, Harmony, Tertial, Theory, Tritone
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Augmented And Diminished Chords!
Augmented and Diminished Chords allow you to create tension in your music. Rather than simply using Major and Minor triads, you can flatten the third, or fifth intervals, and create ‘movement ‘ in your chords. Tension leads to release, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Augmented, Chords, Diminished Chords, Guitar, Half-Diminished, Harmony, Perfect, Scales, Tertial
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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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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
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Tagged EADGBE, EGBDF, FACE, Guitar, Harmony, Intervals, Inversions, Music Lessons, Octaves, Piano, Rule Of 9, Sightreading, Tutorials
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Class 18: Double Stops
What are Double Stops? Double Stops are playing two notes together in harmony to the song. Steve Vai, Al Di Meola, and even Slash of Guns and Roses frequently use double stops in their solos, and song writing. John Petrucci … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Di Meola, Chord Diagrams, Chords, double stops, Guitar, Harmony, John Petrucci, Piano, Practice, Revision 3, Slash, Strumming, Tab, Tabs
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How To Harmonize A Song!
To understand Harmony, you must first understand Intervals. After you write the melody, use intervals (usually within the key signature) to give it a hip feel. Harmony can be in intervals of fifths, fourths, sevenths, outside the key, inside, etc. … Continue reading
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Tagged Augmented, Diminished, double stops, Guitar, Harmonize a song, Harmony, Intervals, Major, Minor, Music Composition, Perfect, Piano
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Class #17 A And E Chords Explained!
This is from my week 17 of my Revision 3 show! How to play Guitar A and E chords! Well I did an earlier episode about beginner chords C, F, and G a few months ago. Since you have them … Continue reading
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Tagged Chord Diagrams, Chords, Chords A And E, double stops, Guitar, Harmony, Piano, Revision 3, Strumming, Tab, Tabs
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Seventh Chords On Guitar Explained!
Seventh Chords in music are important because they add a new level of harmony to your work. This new harmonic element allows you to play more styles of music, sounds, and techniques. We all know a C major chord consists … Continue reading
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Tagged Blues, Diminished, Guitar Piano, Half-Diminished, Harmony, Intervals, Jazz, Major Sevenths, Minor Sevenths, Notes, Seventh Chords, Sevenths
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Creating Major And Minor Chords
This Post written by James Dellay. To learn more about him follow him on Twitter! Creating Major Chords Creating Major Chords using the R/3/5 idea.Root/3rd/5th is the algorithm to create Major chords,The Root is the key you are playing in, … Continue reading
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Tagged Harmony, Major Chords, Minor Chords, Music Theory, Root Third Fifth
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Weekly Revision 3 Lesson 7: ‘Chords C F And G’
This lesson is from my Revision3 Show titled ‘Your Weekly Music Lesson with Walt‘. This week we learned ‘Chords CFG’. First, before you learn these chords it may help to learn The Notes and also the other chords ADE The … Continue reading
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Tagged Chord Diagrams, Chords C F And G, Guitar, Harmony, Piano, Revision 3, Strumming, Tab, Tabs, Walt Ribeiro, WaltRibeiro
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