When you’re starting out and learning how to play bass guitar (or any instrument for that matter), playing might feel a bit awkward. That’s why it’s important to familiarize yourself with the different parts of the bass guitar and what functions they serve. This will serve as a solid...
Slash chords look like a combination of a chord symbol and a single note. When you see a symbol like this, play the note to the right of the slash with your left hand as a bass note. Then, play the chord to the left of the slash with your right hand. You can think of this cho...
A tempo of 120-130 is the ideal rhythm for dancing, as it’s not awkward to move to and allows people to feel comfortable. As the BPM approaches 130 and beyond, we start to get into thetechno realm of music, where the energy levels are a bit higher and require more energy to keep ...
However, getting started can be daunting–creating a music blog is more than publishing one or two articles. You need your own site, strong visual design to appeal to your target audience, components to share the texts, audio, and video you create and curate, and promotional tactics to make...
The style that would grow to be associated with that name (though it was not much-used at the time) was at its apex in 1994. A handful of primarily East Coast producers and groups were beginning a new sonic conversation, using innovations like filtered bass lines while competing to see wh...
I’m kind of thinking the way a singer would go, so I’m playing those notes using that as a platform to solo and you’ll hear Clapton at the beginning of this tune, you know he’s going you know build out and bound to go that’s what he’s playing off is that motive walking...
When it comes to his evolution from boy-bander to solo superstar, Timberlake may have put it best himself in the 2002 Billboard interview: "There's a lot more to me than people have previously believed." Timberlake certainly proved that ...
Click to load video After the frenetic opener, the shimmering “Song Of Happiness” is serene by comparison. With its use of pentatonic scales, it has a pronounced East Asian influence, perhaps reflecting the fact that Tyner had visited there a year earlier. “Smitty’s Place” is fast and...
(This used to include me by the way.) In your first guitar improvisation lesson, your instructor will show you a scale shape on guitar, tell you what it’s called (most likely A minor pentatonic) and then say: “You can play all the notes in this scale shape and none of them will...
affrettando – having velvety harmony in the bass – tonic, subdominant, dominant; dominant seventh leading to the final tonic; interesting fetching modulations and major, minor, dominant, augmented, diminished and half-diminished chords; harmonic, melodic, diatonic, chromatic, pentatonic, octatonic scal...