The Links Between Music, Identity, Evolution and Character
Music As A Record of Human History. I’ve been reading some interesting or inspiring blogs in past weeks that I though worth sharing. So this week, rather than writing a blog about the links between music and our identity, evolution, history and character, I found a number of blogs that all separately discuss facets of
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Some Guitar and Musician Hysterical Memes
Some Hysterical Guitar and Musician Memes I’ve been absolutely slammed this year with teaching. This has been my busiest, most successful year ever in my 31 years as a musician and 26 years teaching guitar. That’s why I’ve had a challenging time this year keeping up with the weekly blog writing. I just came up
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The Dim7 Arpeggio
The dim7 Arpeggio Fingerings You can learn more about the dim7 chord here: The 3 Uses of the dim7 Chord. The formula of the dim7 chord is: 1 b3 b5 bb7 When you would play this formula on 1 string, you’d notice that all notes are spaced evenly in four 3-fret intervals. The dim7 chord
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Soloing with Triad Substitution Pairs over The V I Progression
Soloing with Triad Substitution Pairs over The V I Progression This is a continuation from last week’s blogs: G and Am Triad Substitutions over a C Groove and Triad Substitution Pairs over The V7 Chord It is essential that you study these 2 blogs first before moving on. This will help you understand the material
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Triad Substitution Pairs over The I Chord
Triad Substitution Pairs over The I Chord Let me start with explaining what “triad substitution” means. The title says, “Triad Substitution Pairs over The I Chord” The I chord in the key of C, is a C chord. When the whole band is jamming on a C chord groove, and you are playing other chords
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