Games people play (with scales)
C’mon… don’t you play games with your scale patterns? You should, you know. It’s good for you. And by “good for you”, I mean that it develops your scale fluency in a way that helps you to learn music more quickly & more easily and enables you to create music more freely. That’s good, right? Right.…
Exponential Technique (or, speeds that come in tall, venti & grande)
Like many, I have my own list of “guitar heroes”… • Jimmy Page • John Scofield • Jeff Beck • Adam Rogers • Ralph Towner … and a bunch of others. (yeah, I put some esoteric ones on there to make you think I’m really… esoteric) But the science geek part of me also has a list…
Effective Practicing: It’s all in how you look at it…
Visualization: You’re Doing it Wrong! This was my first idea for the title of this blog post. I know… cheesy. I’m playing off of those “life hack” articles you see on the internets where they show you the best way to use some device or achieve some result. The idea is that most of the planet’s…
Contrary to Popular Belief…
… your fingers do not have minds of their own. Yet at times, it does indeed seem as if they do. Muscle memory is a big part of learning to play any instrument, so in a way, you could say that the fingers are often working independently from your conscious mind’s direction. It’s about getting the…
Confessions of an Autodidactic.
I read lots of articles & watch lots of documentaries on science, psychology, and music. And I especially enjoy it when the subject matter is a combination of all three. I am fascinated with how the mind & body work together (or not) to achieve results in any kind of goal-oriented task. Although sometimes there doesn’t appear to…
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