Anchors! The Secret to Better Chord Transitions…
Remember when you were a kid and you played “lava”? No? Bummer. It was a fun game. You had to get from one part of the living room to the other without touching the floor. Why? Because the floor was really made of molten lava, right? So you had to climb all over the furniture to get…
Accentuate the… accents.
Isn’t it funny that people always thinks it’s cool when someone has an accent? An accent different from their own, of course. For some reason, people just seem to like accents. I guess because they’re different than what they’re used to. And different usually proves to be interesting. You know what else is different when…
Accelerators for Your Guitar Playing
I am always looking for simple ways to speed up the process of learning & here is the first in a series of articles on various ways you can hasten your development as an artist, musician & guitarist (you realize you are all three, right?). There’s a lot to be said for the simple action…
A Matter of Scale – Part 3
In the beginning, there was scale pattern fingering. And we all lived our lives by such fingering. And everything was good. But then we tried to make art in an artistic manner using these scales with these fingerings. And then said fingering turned on us. “Oh, why do I keep playing the same boring un-artistic…
A Matter of Scale – Part 2
Here is some further clarification of the concepts I discussed in a previous blog post, It’s a Matter of Scale… There are seven notes in the major scale. C Major Scale = C D E F G A B But whenever I ask a student. “What are the notes of the C major scale?”, they frequently answer, “C D…
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