Ostinato: Boost Your Songwriting Creativity
Ostinato: Boost Your Songwriting Creativity What is an “ostinato”? In classical music, an “ostinato” is a motif or phrase that keeps persistently repeating in the same voice throughout a composition or part of a composition. The plural of ostinato is ostinati. This Italian term means: “Stubborn” I like to make the distinction with contemporary music, … Ostinato: Boost Your Songwriting Creativity
Musical Storytelling In Improvisation
Playing A Guitar Solo is Like “Talking With Your Guitar”. In the beginning stages, students of improvisation tend to solo like they are trying to constantly reinvent the wheel. They constantly try to keep coming up with ever new phrases and new melodic ideas, which makes the solo sound like it’s “meandering about” without ever … Musical Storytelling In Improvisation
There Are Only 2048 Possible Scales In Music
Musicians Highly Overestimate How Many Scales There Are In Music. Many years ago, in one of my first semesters at Berklee College of Music, I read the book “Innumeracy”. Written by famous mathematician, John Allen Paulos, the book was required reading for one of the audio engineering classes at Berklee. The gist of the book … There Are Only 2048 Possible Scales In Music
The Folky Beginner Chords
The First Chords You Learn On A Guitar. These are the first chords every guitar player typically starts with when learning guitar. I tend to call these chords the “folky beginner chords”, just to give them a name, but to be fair: these chords are neither “folky” nor “beginner chords”. Besides folk music: you can … The Folky Beginner Chords
The Different Ways To Tune A Guitar
Guitar Tuners Following TC Electronics tuner is really cool. It is to my knowledge, the only tuner where you can hit all 6 strings simultaneously, and tune all 6 strings at the same time. Following clip-on tuners have gotten very popular. These tuners clip on your headstock, and they read the vibrations of the wood … The Different Ways To Tune A Guitar
