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Hey guys! This month we're going to talk about basic soldering for electric guitar players. This will be a really simple crash course to get you into how to do easy things like repairing jac...
In the final section, we'll cover how to prepping pots for soldering, how to use solder wick to remove excess solder and how to cleanly connect wires to different points on a pot. &...
Today we're going to use just a handful of notes to understand modes. We're going to explore the Major 9th, Major 3rd, and Minor 7th scales degrees to better understand E Mixolydian! Let's ...
Understand that for every mode you explore there are chord tones and other intervals that make that mode sound the way it does. All other tones are used as "passing tones". Passing tones ar...
The major 3rd is a chord tone and can be used by itself. Keep in mind that it needs to reseolve to the tinic or root note by the end of any given phrase. You'll also notice that you can emb...
The 9th scale degree is actually the "2nd" scale degree yet and octave up past the 8th(octave) scale degree making it a 9th from the root. Notice how the 9th too likes to resolve to the ton...
The minor 7th likes to resolve up to the root. Once again you can prolong your phrase and move through the different chord tones before ending the phrase properly. Notice at this poin...
Notice at this point a scale acts just like that. It's balanced perfectly. The farther out say 9th or 6th degree, the weaker the movement and most times feels the need to hit say the 3rd or ...
Here's another round of licks I'm visualizing using shapes as well as using intervallic pivot points (by ear) to gauge my position when phrasing my lines. Lick #1 is based on another 7th ar...
Lick #2 is based on another one of the same shapes as in the first video, only being tapped this time. We start with Gmaj7 then fall down to A7. The A7 arpeggio starts on the b7 degree. Anal...
Lick #3 is a 6th intervallic exercise. I'll explain more in depth in the video so you can see exactly what I mean... When you're ready, go to the next page for the backing track! Thanks for...
INTERVALLIC LICKS ROUND II Here's the backing track to this tutorial. Let's get shredding!!!!
This month we're going to talk about one of my most used songwriting devices. Plainly speaking, when writting music I like to take a common chord progression and spice it up a bit. In this ...
Functional Harmony is simply creating a chord from every note in the key. For instance, you have C major. C-D-E-F-G-A-B. C Major - C-E-G D minor - D-A-F E minor - E-G-B F Major - F-A-C ...
In Examples 1-3, we have this base chord progession: Dm - Am - C - G - F ---> Dm However, in this Example 3, we'll play the above progression then move our third chord C Major up a half ...
In Examples 1-3, we have this base chord progession: Dm - Am - C - G - F ---> Dm However, in this Example 3, we'll play the above progression then move our third chord C Major up a half ...
In Examples 1-3, we have this base chord progession: Dm - Am - C - G - F ---> Dm However, in this Example 3, we'll play the above progression then move our third chord C Major up a half ...
Hello Folks, This month I want to go a different route. Let's take a minute and think about our musical journey and the most important aspects of becoming our very best potential. What got ...
Is technique all that important? When first discovering technique, did you ever stop to think about what you're capable of outside the metronome culture? Technique is super important but ev...
Most of us know that without a good sense of rhythm, music can be played but not expressed. Rhythm is in and throughout everything that is. Think about how you speak to your lawyer as oppose...
Modes are a lot like rhythm in a sense that they should be explored and expressed. Learning modes won't make you more melodic just because you learned them on the fretboard. Modes posses a t...
I truly enjoyed my musical freedom growing up. My family was always writing and creating music. I have no intention of cramping your musical style. However, those of you experiencing difficu...