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To me reading, along with ear playing skills is a central plank of what I think of as core musicianship. When you have both of these down, the musical world’s your oyster, really. It’s frustrating...
I was going to mention this is a bit of a Fats move, but someone seems to have done this already.
You can see this progression as a relative minor mode interrupted cadence (V-vi) or a substitute for I7#5 (augmented symmetry), probably the latter is more useful. Coming up from semitone below the...
"Students must have some ability to read of course but I bet being an excellent reader is not a graduation requirement, nevermind being an admission requirement. Especially for guitar majors. Feel...
Awesome insight, guys, I really appreciate all this. I've seen this for targeting I "indirectly" before... Switching back to "key of C names", I've mentioned Ab7 to C in I'm beginning to see...
On the head, E-7b5 works with the A in the melody, but F7#9 is pretty dissonant. I mean it's a sound, and you could certainly do it, but I'm not crazy about the sound of the G# there. I would tend...
Do you have a link to a sale of one of your guitars. I'm thinking of selling a couple and would like to see how to take pictures.
Cool video Question - is the Peter Croton book in German? That is the only copy I see on the US Amazon
Just 2. Lukather played everything, except for the solo which Eddie Van Halen played. EVH and Luke were close friends. "Prince wannabes"... are you talking about TODAY? Because if you're...
Lol. This is why I didn't want to go to LA and be an R&B rhythm specialist. He's definitely a great guitar player. He can even polish a turd like 'Beat It'. There might be 3 guitar players on it. I...
And, until you HAVE THE CHOPS to "play fancy", you can still play the songs by doing what JC does in the OP: simplify it back to it's base form. Both are valid (not saying that you are saying they...
In elementary school, I played the mandolin and recorder. Playing the recorder always meant reading, but playing the mandolin never involved reading. I think most horn, piano, violin etc players...
New video; what classical theory is teaching me...
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