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The Hump Day Guitar Challenge

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

If ever there was a day of the week when motivation simply does not exist, Hump Day would be it. It’s still a wee bit too early to get excited about the weekend, it’s never a paycheck day and, as much as you really want to sit around and do nothing, you know you can’t. [...]

The Weekend Challenge

Friday, August 6, 2010

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I’ve been trying to come up with a simple yet hard exercise to challenge myself. I didn’t want some overly-complex arpeggio or crazy gymnastic lick, but rather something that would normally seem so archaically easy that I could just pick up the guitar for a few minutes and work on it. The idea was to [...]

Improve Your Ear With EarMaster

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

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EarMaster, the interactive ear training and music theory software program, is the most comprehensive learning tool I have seen in a very long time. The developers say: Covering pitch and rhythm training, music theory and solfege, EarMaster is a complete and powerful ear trainer for all musicians at any level. The question is, does it [...]

Music Theory Lesson: Key Signatures

Thursday, January 14, 2010

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It is important for musicians to learn the basic building block of Western music, which is the actual series of notes/pitches that are used. In a nutshell, there are 12 notes/pitches used in Western Music. (For the sake of keeping things elementary we will not be discussing quarter-tonal and microtonal pitches here.) The 12 notes [...]

Music Theory Lesson: The Music Staff

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

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Every musician, regardless of their playing ability or musical goals, can greatly benefit from being able to read music and understand the principles of music theory. From simple concepts such as being able to read a transcribed solo and identifying the notes of a 7th chord, to learning a song by ear and being able [...]