Challenge - Learning the Major Scale in 12 Keys It's a good idea to make it your goal to learn the major scale in all 12 major keys. This will take a while, but it's well worth it. When you have a good understanding of these 12 keys, playing will be more natural, and it will...
It’s that distinctive tingling deep in your bones that you get whenever you know one of your favorite music artists is on the precipice of something monumental. This feeling accompanies the news of Charles Wesley Godwin’s mammoth upcoming 19-song major label debut calledFamily Tiesdue out on ...
“Wretched” begins with a sea of ghostly synths, as he sings “Day light doesn’t seem to come up as fast / When it’s you I’m haunting.” Then come the guitar chords, with the more urgent “I can’t be here lost and abandoned.” When the full band finally roars to life, ...
composers very often write such patterns as repeated three-note chords, for example (from the bottom up) C4, E4, and G4 (C major), D4, F4 and A4 (D minor), or C4, F4 and A4 (F major). Such simple triads can be spiced up by (say) alternating one bar of C4, E4, and G4...
the debate about who is the Best Rapper Alive. Being the BRA is sort of like being the MVP—even though rap doesn’t follow a rigid cultural calendar quite like major sports seasons—because it only requires looking at the current crop of active artists and picking a winner. You can confi...
What did you find most challenging and rewarding during the creation of On The Go? With any song I write usually the most rewarding part is when I see it available on streaming services its just a really cool feeling to know your music is out there for the world to listen to. Please ...
Howells often composes chords that include simultaneous seconds in adjacent voice parts, which are approached by an ascending or descending leap. In measure 56 the soprano voice leaps down an augmented fourth to a C in beat two, while the first alto voice and the tenors simultaneously leap up...
Scarlett struck a few chords and her voice floated out to them from the parlour,sweetly,sadly,in the words of a popular song: ‘Into a ward of whitewashed walls Where the dead and dying lay—— Wounded with bayonets,shells and balls—— Somebody’s darling was borne one day. ‘Somebody...
What’s planned for the remainder of 2021 going into 2022? Most of 2021 will be about getting “Dial Tone” to as many ears as possible, but I will say that I’ve also got a little EP in the works that I’m hoping to get out to the world sometime in 2022. ...
Examples 16 and 17. These strong melodic phrases were created with the simple D-major pentatonic five-note major scale (see example 15).Choosing the right scale for your melodies obviously depends on the chords used in the music, but since many tunes featuring pop horns are based on simple,...