Experience the joy of practicing with the most comprehensive music accessory available today. The Harmonic Metronome Demo is a fully operational version of the program, although it is limited to the major and minor scales and the arpeggio option is not available. Even with these limitations, you will be amazed at the ability of the The Harmonic Metronome software to aid your musical practice. (The full version suports a great many modes and scale patterns, plus the arpeggio option.) System Requirements MS-DOS compatible 486 or better 8mb RAM Windows 3.1 or better Mouse Sound Card with MIDI Synthesizer Follow these […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A new incarnation of Emagic Logic Audio for PC has undergone plenty of major revisions. What does it have that previous versions don’t have? The debate over which is the best sequencer is endless and is not going to find space here (oops, it just did) but, suffice to say that Logic Audio is one of the world’s most popular combined audio and MIDI sequencing packages. Logic V4 is available in three versions – Silver, Gold and Platinum – and has launched simultaneously on both Mac and PC platforms (look out in next month’s FM for the test of the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is a 12 bar blues progression to try. This one is for acoustic, although you can play it on electric. Play each bar slowly as you learn the changes. This is not too difficult. You may want to increase […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is a simple classical study. Learning classical gives you a good foundation in fingerpicking. Go slow, the piece is not very hard. Stress the first note of each bar.
If you start on the note C and go to the next highest C playing the C major scale, you’ll have: E——————————————————– B——————————————————– G——————————————————– D————-7-9-10————————————- A——7-8-10——————————————– E-8-10————————————————— C D E F G A B C If you start on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Each key has a set of primary chords I, IV, V, or 1, 4, 5 Each key has a set of secondary chords ii, iii, vi, bVII or 2, 3, 6, b7 Primary Chords Secondary Chords Key […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is the basic pentatonic scale. Does it look familiar? If not, you might want to go practice the easy tricks before you read this next part. Without the pentatonic scale as background this section will get really confusing.
Most beginning/intermediate guitarists know a couple of positions of the major scale, but they’re are many different positions . These are shown below. Note that the root note is in brackets. These scales are all in the key of C […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This lesson looks at the construction of Major and Minor Chords. A Major chord contains the 1st, 3rd and 5th of the scale it is from. A C Chord contains the notes C E G. A G Chord contains the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A Power chord or root fifth, is a common sound in modern music, especially hard rock. The chord is made up of a Root note and the fifth of the scale it is from. The chord is easy to learn […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Try these arpeggios, an arpeggio is the consecutive playing of the notes of any given chord. Try moving these up and down on the neck. The first note is the root. For example, to play the first arpeggio in G […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here are some basic guitar licks for those of you unfamiliar with soloing. These are from the basic A pentatonic minor scale. You can play these in any position. Lick 1 Lick 2 E—|———5———–|——-5——-5–|————————– B—|——5—–8p5–8^–|–5h8—–5h8—–|————————– G—|–7^—————–|——————|————————– D—|———————|——————|————————– A—|———————|——————|————————– E—|———————|——————|————————–
Tony Chestnut Tony Chestnut knows I love you (sol mi sol mi sol la so mi) Tony knows (re mi fah) Tony knows (mi fah sol) Tony Chestnut knows I love you (sol mi sol mi sol la sol mi) That’s what Tony knows (re fah mi re doh mi doh) Toe, Knee, Chest, Nut (Head), Nose, Eye, Love (cross hands over heart) You (Point) Toe, Knee, Nose Toe, Knee, Nose Toe, Knee, Chest, Nut, Nose, Eye, Love, You That’s (clap) What (Clap) Toe, Knee, Knows. Point to each body part as you sing it. Sing it over and over […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Singing and the Brain: Developing Mental Concepts for Singing by Dr. Robert Shewan. A handbook for teachers of singing. Concise, easy to use, includes demonstration tape. Explains the connection between the brain and the use of our voice and how to build mental concepts that result in conceptual singing. Dr. Shewan has over 30 years experience as a voice instructor and choral conductor. This handbook is used at the Spoleto Vocal Arts Symposium in Spoleto, Italy.
The Classical Music Ring is an association of sites featuring performers, the history of Classical music, musician biographies, sheet music, luthiers, and almost everything else related to the world of Orchestral and Operatic music. It is the longest established and largest organisation of its type.
Arnold Schoenberg was the father of a compositional method that can be safely said to have changed the way music was thought of in the 20th century. This musical style is called dodecaphonic (from the Greek for “12″: dodeca and “sound”: phonos) or 12-tone music, and is the seed for an entire epoch of composers that utilized what came to be called serial composition. The concept of 12-tone music is simple – no note holds tonal or harmonic superiority over any other note. The compositional style of dodecaphony follows very rigid instructions and rules, which became more and more strict […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The one theory that stuck was that of Plato (c.428 – c.348). In both Phædrus and Republic, Plato sets out a scheme of the universe. The description in Republic is the one concerned with the Music of the Spheres: …they saw there at the middle of the light the extremities of its fastenings stretched from heaven;…from the extremities was stretched the spindle of [the goddess] Necessity,…And the spindle turned on the knees of Necessity, and up above on each of the rims of the circles a Siren stood, borne around in its revolution and uttering one sound, one note, and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you start on the note C and go to the next highest C playing the C major scale, you’ll have: E——————————————————– B——————————————————– G——————————————————– D————-7-9-10————————————- A——7-8-10——————————————– E-8-10————————————————— C D E F G A B C If you start on a different note, but still play only these notes, you’ll have different “modes” based on that same set of notes. You already know two modes, the Ionian (major) and the Aeolian (minor), here are all the modes:
Dubturbo System Requirements We have received a few emails from people asking about Dubturbo’s system requirements and if it’s compatible with Mac computers. Dubturbo is compatible with both PC and Mac computers plus laptops and macbooks. The only system requirement you really need is the AdobeAir plugin (free download) and we have tested Dubturbo on both new and older computers both Mac and PC. You wont need a super computer to run this software but the faster your computer is the faster the software will run. In our opinion Dubturbo is one of the best beat making software on the market for the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dubturbo 2.0 Preview Download Dubturbo To Try For Yourself Dubturbo version 2.0 is almost out and I must say it does look amazing. We where actually very lucky to give it a demo as a beta tester and compared to Dubturbo 1.5 this is going to shack the music software world, especially if they keep the price the same as it is now. However, they are talking about increasing the price(we hope they don’t). After talking to the owner of Dubturbo I can honestly say his goal is to keep it affordable so anyone can start making their own beats. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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