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Numbers as Intervals in Music
Tuesday, 25 Aug, 2009 – 9:02 | 7 Comments
Numbers as Intervals in Music

A lot of times, when referring to an interval, people will refer to it as a Number instead of the actual note.
The example is that A B C# D E F# can be written as …

Silence is Golden
Sunday, 26 Jul, 2009 – 9:25 | No Comment
Silence is Golden

Silence is the most powerful and important part in conversation, presentations, and even music. Too many times I see people walking down the street with their iPods or mp3 players. I feel its important that …

Easy Way to Learn Scales
Saturday, 25 Jul, 2009 – 11:35 | 3 Comments
Easy Way to Learn Scales

Learning scales can be difficult. There are a few tricks to going about and speeding up the process.
Understand that there are also Modes, too. You’ll be happy to learn that all the chords you know, …

Jimmy Goss and Walt teach Guitar
Friday, 24 Jul, 2009 – 10:44 | No Comment
Jimmy Goss and Walt teach Guitar

Jimmy Goss is hilarious. Here we discuss practicing, power chords, and have a good time. I can’t stop laughing watching this.
He was new to the whole online video idea! We discuss a few things, and …

Sforzando, Crescendos, Tremolos, and more!
Friday, 24 Jul, 2009 – 10:37 | One Comment
Sforzando, Crescendos, Tremolos, and more!

Sforzando = when an attack hits hard, diminuendos, and then crescendos… all in one attack
Crescendos = making the music increasingly louder
Tremolos = rapidly attacking the note
Dynamics = mezzo forte, forte, piano, mezzo piano. Indicating how …

Sibelius 6 Intro
Wednesday, 22 Jul, 2009 – 5:15 | No Comment
Sibelius 6 Intro

Sibelius 6 is the latest installment of the best music engraver around. There are a bunch of new features in this one that my older version didn’t have.
One of them is “Panoramic View”, which allows …

Counting Sixteenth Note Patterns
Monday, 22 Jun, 2009 – 20:42 | No Comment
Counting Sixteenth Note Patterns

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Reading two lines on one staff (stave)
Thursday, 11 Jun, 2009 – 12:11 | 3 Comments
Reading two lines on one staff (stave)

The original is in the staff below. Above is where I circled where the two lines are that a piano player would play. There are two voices, as a result, one if for the left …

Tension Chords
Friday, 22 May, 2009 – 15:35 | No Comment
Tension Chords

Using tension in your chords is very effective. Music (and life) is all a series of tension and release. So to play a chord that is outside of a key signature, it creates tension, which …

Flavor Chords
Friday, 22 May, 2009 – 15:30 | One Comment
Flavor Chords

Using basic chords might be all that is called for – but what if you wanted to add color? What about piano? Well, look no further! Here is a quick overview (pun intended) of the …

Modulation Explained!
Friday, 3 Apr, 2009 – 8:09 | 6 Comments
Modulation Explained!

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Modulation is the idea of changing keys in a song. Learn more here!
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Class 19: Weird Symbols in Music Explained!
Thursday, 2 Apr, 2009 – 7:00 | No Comment
Class 19: Weird Symbols in Music Explained!

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All those weird symbols in Music Explained!
This is from my Revision 3 Beta Show which is along side the Revision 3 Networks channels. …

Inversions Explained!
Monday, 30 Mar, 2009 – 15:47 | No Comment
Inversions Explained!

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Inversions in music are the idea of ‘flipping’ two notes around. So in stead of the intervals from C to G (which is 5 notes away – C D E …

Slurs and Ties
Sunday, 15 Mar, 2009 – 13:55 | 2 Comments
Slurs and Ties

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