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Email to a Student About “Tonicization” This was written after a lesson with a student of mine, who also takes music classes at his college. In one of those classes, his teacher had apparently been talking a lot about “tonicizing”. This somehow led that student, to think more of this term than it is. I … Miscommunications & Misconceptions About “Tonicization”
Student Question About How To Apply Keysignatues of Modes To Soloing. Before I go into the question the student had, I want to mention that you can learn here about How To Figure Out and Practice Keysignatures of Modes. Question from student Joshua Picard: Let’s say that you want me to play Eb Lydian scale … A Fast, Easy Way to Figure Out Keysignatures of Modes
More Insights on The Harmonic Series and on Music Theorists. The following blogs post shows my (email) response to an email I received from someone asking me about the harmonic series and about the research of a music theorist. It is slightly redacted to improve the flow and to clarify or improve the points I … More Insights on The Harmonic Series and on Music Theorists.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! We’ll take a little break from free lessons and blogging, and will be back in early January 2019 Of all the years I’ve been writing blogs here on my website: 2018 is the year I am most proud of. I’ve been digging into some really colorful, advanced, fun guitar … Merry Christmas and Best Wishes for 2019
Meet The Critic Who Panned ‘Sgt. Pepper’ This is quite a story about the music critic who reviewed the newly released Sgt Pepper in 1967 on a stereo that wasn’t working with a busted speaker, then wrote a terrible album review because he didn’t like how the album sounded. Well duh! 🙂 I think you’ll … Meet The Critic Who Panned ‘Sgt. Pepper’
