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10 Tips for introducing a metronome to your practice sessions
Practising against a metronome, is one of the best and most efficient ways of improving your fluency, sense of rhythm and speed on any instrument, not just the guitar. Pretty much any guitarist of note, in every style will incorporate this into their practice regime, and there’s no reason why you shouldn’t too! These are my [...]
Continue reading...Charlie Parker’s “Confirmation” Jam Track
24 December 2010
This is another classic Jazz track, Charlie Parker’s Confirmation. Here’s a classic version online. Writing up the chord sequence, we have… ||FMaj7 |Em7b5 A7 |Dm7 G7 |Cm7 F7 | Bb7 |Am7 D7 |G7#11 [...]
Continue reading...Minor 7th Pentatonic Substitutions for Minor 7th Chords.
22 December 2010
Following on from my previous article Minor 7th Pentatonic Substitutions for Major 7th Chords. I’d like to extend that idea to talk about various ways of using Minor 7th pentatonics to create tone colours. This time let’s analyse some simple natural Minor scales looking for pairs of Minor 7th chords. Let pick E Minor as a [...]
Continue reading...Minor 7th Pentatonic Substitutions for Major 7th Chords.
5 June 2010
This is a different way of using the Minor 7th Pentatonic to get some feels, sounds and tensions that are a little different than you’d normally expect from this old favorite of Guitarists. There are many approaches to this technique the one I’m going to talk about this time starts with the concept of Polychords. Polychords The concept [...]
Continue reading...Quartal Harmony for the Guitarist
20 May 2010
If you want to get to the arpeggio charts, click here: Quartal Arpeggio Charts Background Standard Western musical harmony is based on stacked thirds. So for example a C Major Chord is made by playing a “C”, the note a third above that which would be an “E” then the note a third above that which would [...]
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- admin: Hey Felipe, Glad you like it. If you have any questions, just drop me an email at my googlemail account, and I'll get back to you. jambole0192@g...
- Felipe: Very cool stuff man ! Would love to chat to you more about technique ! Have been incorporating many of the techniques you used for a while (still work...
- JohnyisAlive: Hello just singned up, thought i should say hi!...
- Olivier Maunick: Hello, Thank you for a nice website.Here are a a few humble comments about Neapolitan Major: This scale is called "Major" because of its natural...
- zippy: Of course there is a Bb it is also A#...check fretboard knowledge to know all the notes...good luck!...
- Jan: Sorry for screwing up the names; I was gonna ask the admin about the progression but somehow got it wrong. No harm meant!...
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26 December 2010
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