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 differentparts o
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while mixing in a guitar break and a heavy bass line. She was a chief architect in moving the dreamier, string-led sounds of disco into the future of synth-led dance music. Following in the legacy of Black funk rockers like Labelle andBetty Davis, 1979's "Hot Stuff" loudly and proudly...
4: Introduce bar Chords and single note lines that use the pentatonic minor scale Music theory should be useful and a great way to introduce students to it is by identifying the names of notes on the 5th and 6th strings that can be used to hang bar chords from ...
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...
Result (✅): The melody we retrieved is a simple C major pentatonic melody, with a combination of quarter and half notes. It's not a particularly interesting tune, but there is some variation, with the arpeggio turning around on the sixth scale degree and returning stepwise with the 2nd ...
lead guitar role, whether for solos or accompaniment to vocal lines. Take a listen to his solos on “Get Back,” for example — he switches seamlessly from staccato, choppy chord playing during the verses to a pair of slinky, legato solos filled with fluid bends and smooth pentatonic lines...
Playing an octave on the piano from A below middle C to A above middle C, sounding only the white keys, is an example of a natural minor scale. A pentatonic scale uses five intervals. The first interval is a whole step, the next is three half-steps, the third and fourth are each ...
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...
Rhythmic note values, including rests Pitch recognition on the staff in treble and bass clefs Memorize circle of 5ths Learn key signatures Learn all major and minor scales Learn major and minor pentatonic scales Learn blues scales Learn to spell chords (triads and 7th chords) ...