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Blue Belt: Level 5 Guitar Lessons |
Basic Theory of Harmonic Scale Progressions
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Somehow you have noodled your way through the internet to arrive at the heart and soul of how all music flows... from chord center to chord center... within an established key. Your ear senses this flow when listening to any kind of music, but you probably have not learned how chords connect together to make music, and more importantly, how to make your music interesting, which is a fine balance between boredom and ear-sickness. This is where you will begin to learn how to connect chords together so that they sound great! |
Category: Blue Belt: Theory
Subcategory: Chord Progressions
Published on: 10 Oct 2003
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Cadences: Musical Punctuation
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Understanding cadences allows you to understand and enjoy the music you listen to a little more, but the real benefit of understanding cadences is how to use them to make clear statements in the music you write. |
Category: Blue Belt: Theory
Subcategory: Chord Progressions
Published on: 09 Dec 2003
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Ear Training: What? How? Why?
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It's not "ear straining", or "fear training", it's EAR TRAINING. This lesson will give you a very practical approach to the subject that will help you do it right and won't burn you out. |
Category: Blue Belt: Ear Training
Subcategory: Ear Training
Published on: 09 Oct 2003
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Harmonic Scale Chords for All Major Keys
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This lesson has all the base chords and a few of the most popular substitute chords you can use in the major harmonic scale. Please use this to check your answers to the previous lesson's exercise, and commit now to learn this stuff well. |
Category: Blue Belt: Chords
Subcategory: Chord Progressions
Published on: 10 Oct 2003
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Harmonic Scale Directional Chord Changes
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This lesson will show that within a harmonic scale, there are all kinds of possible chord change combinations, but from the perspective of forward motion when pairing chords together, there are really only 4 potential kinds of choices to understand and master. |
Category: Blue Belt: Chords
Subcategory: Chord Progressions
Published on: 08 Dec 2003
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Intervals: The Essential Building Blocks of All Music
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Notes do not make music. It's the intervals between notes that give a melody its direction... either toward or away from the tonic, or home base. Studying this intervalic tension and release will help you understand why some melodies are compelling and others are not. Songwriters, you should know this well. |
Category: Blue Belt: Ear Training
Subcategory: Intervals
Published on: 01 Dec 2003
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Musical Vitamins for Guitar Players
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To always be ready for peak performance, we need to be sharp and at our best physically, mentally and spiritually. This lesson will give us a complete list of musical Vitamins, that when taken in recommended doses will help us to enable us to absorb the music we ingest, process it, and derive energy from it. Musical vitamins also help us grow, stave off disease that can afflict musicians and heal ourselves musically. |
Category: General
Subcategory: Peak Performance
Published on: 09 Oct 2003
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Ongoing Growth: Horizontally and Vertically
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A black belt guitar player should be both wide and deep, as explained in the sections below. Also the black belt guitar player should be continually expanding both horizontally and vertically. This lesson has a few ideas to keep you growing and make you a wider and deeper player. |
Category: General
Subcategory: Peak Performance
Published on: 09 Oct 2003
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Set Management: A Must-Have in Performing
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Even when you have learned 1000 songs, and have achieved superstar status... the most you'll ever be able to play for an audience in one concert is about 20. Most gigs we play while coming up through the ranks are much shorter, so what you don't play is as important as what you do play. This lesson will help you polish your performances to knock the socks off your audience. |
Category: General
Subcategory: Peak Performance
Published on: 09 Oct 2003
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The Essence and Importance of Flow
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Listening to music, we hardly notice how music flows from one measure or from one phrase or section to the next. But playing flowing music requires many months of study and training. Developing timing and flow cannot be rushed any more in music than in learning a new language. It takes time, effort, practice, trials, errors and reinforcement and celebration of successes. |
Category: General
Subcategory: Wednesday
Published on: 26 Jan 2005
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The Four Corners of the Harmonic Landscape
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There are thousands of possible chords in the Western scale, and millions of possible chord progressions, but armed with knowledge of the harmonic scale, you are ready to learn about four broad categories that songs fall into harmonically. Understanding these categories can help you make sense the endless possibilities of and chord progressions, and improve your songwriting. |
Category: Blue Belt: Theory
Subcategory: Chord Progressions
Published on: 21 Apr 2004
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Want to Turbocharge your Guitar Learning Abilities?
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Effective Learning habits and methods can teach you how to transform any idle time into quality practice time whether you have your guitar or not. This reference will teach you how to effectively learn to play your instrument... even when you don't have your instrument with you. You can potentially be learning to play guitar 24 hours a week, even if you only have a guitar in hand for 5 or 6 hours a week. |
Category: General
Subcategory: Learning
Published on: 13 Oct 2003
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Your Attention Channels
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This lesson gives some ideas that help to boost concentration. By gaining total control over our ability to concentrate, we open the physical, mental and physical channels that allow music to flow freely. |
Category: General
Subcategory: Concentration
Published on: 06 Jul 2004
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Downloadable tablature and sound clips:
Upload Name: Cajun Stripper I Artist/Composer: Chet Atkins / Jerry Reed File Type: Size: 576114 Description: Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed get the groove going in this segment. |
Upload Name: Cajun Stripper II Artist/Composer: Chet Atkins / Jerry Reed File Type: Size: 587399 Description: Chet does the point here, Jerry's counter point following in the next segment. |
Upload Name: Cajun Stripper III Artist/Composer: Chet Atkins / Jerry Reed File Type: Size: 527631 Description: Jerry plays counterpoint to with some unique licks that were inspiration to the likes of Eric Johnson. |
Upload Name: Harmonics Artist/Composer: Tom Kolb File Type: Size: 528805 Description: Tom Kolb is one of our favorite guitar teachers. He's very well-rounded. Here he shows how to play harmonics in a light-hearted riff. |
Upload Name: Lazy Artist/Composer: Richie Blackmore File Type: Size: 484971 Description: Richie Blackmore has a smooth rolling style that carried Deep Purple for years. Very bluesy and melodic, listen to how he and Jon Lord (keyboards) play against each other. |
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