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• Select guitar-to-piano (or vice-versa) Scales • 66 scales of modern music and jazz (modern modes, melodic minor modes, harmonic minor modes, harmonic major modes, jazz, blues, bebop, pentatonic scales ...) • 61 world-music scales (Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Jewish, Indian, Rom...
This guide indicates the notes on the keyboard and includes enharmonic chord spellings to make sure you have all the major and minor chords at your fingertips. The first three piano chords to learn are the one, four and five chords, written as Roman numerals I, IV and V. These three ...
The mechanism is applicable to all the strings of grand pianos and can be used to select and prepare in advance any one of the sounds of the harmonic sequence of each note. By means of this accessory, the piano becomes an instrument whose pitch and timbre can be modified, and thus ...
To improve your guitar playing, one of the most important things you can do is to learn and practice scales. While you don’t need to know all the modes, it’s a good idea to learn at least the basic patterns of minor, natural, and harmonic minor scales. It’s not as hard as it...
What the"minor-dominant-major"chord progression is and how it's used in at least 60% of popular music!Think of a song and I guarantee you it's in it! Various chord progressions like the"2-5-1," "5-1," "1-4,"and how major scales help you to understand these progressions in eve...
“I took her to church,” Wexler said, “sat her down at the piano, and let her be herself.” Recording with the best session men at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, she promptly cut the album’s title hit, a slow-fire ballad of ferocious sexuality. The historic moment, of...
Ear training is the key to better musicianship. You can have great technical skills, know your scales by heart, understand all the harmonic rules, and so on. And that's great, no doubt! But without good aural skills, there'sone final stepthat you won't be able to reach. To get bette...
“Deluge” opens out of time, but quickly pivots into a swinging minor melody that is pretty conventional… until Shorter’s solo descends its scale from the supertonic and we’re reminded that we’re in the presence of a harmonic genius. Tyner’s solo remains grounded in the original chords...
Although the change of key in music is known as modulation, which literally looks like changing environment, a musician would need to transfer the melodic and harmonic components of a song from the old key to the prevalent key. “See It This Way…” Imagine that you live in California as ...