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| | | Today they build studios with almost complete isolation on each musician. They sit in little cages and listen on headphones. In my opinion, that's not so good for the creative process. We used to gather around the piano, run over the tunes a few times, and the musicians would get ideas for fills or for rhythm licks, and that was more fun.
- Chet Atkins
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2nd and 7th Intervals: The Leading Intervals
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More intervals to discuss, think about and get into your ear. In Scales, the 2nd and 7th intervals play the role of leading the melody "home" to the tonic note. In Chords, these intervals play the role of adding color, direction or suspense. |
Category: Orange Belt: Ear Training
Subcategory: Intervals
Published on: 10 Oct 2003
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3rd and 6th Intervals: The Emotional Intervals
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Since you have already mastered the perfect intervals, you have a solid foundation for any western chord or scale. Now you are ready to learn the next set of intervals: those which impart emotion into the chords or scale. |
Category: Yellow Belt: Ear Training
Subcategory: Ear Training
Published on: 10 Oct 2003
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Compound Intervals: Intervals in 2nd Octave
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Compound Intervals are intervals that span more that an octave, but less than two. These intervals are important to learn in jazz guitar because jazz uses so many extended chords, 9ths, 11th, and 13ths, all of which are extend beyond the perfect octave. |
Category: Red Belt: Ear Training
Subcategory: Intervals
Published on: 13 Oct 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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Intervals: Musical Atoms
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An interval is the distance between two notes and is measured in whole or half steps. An understanding of intervals is required in order to understand any discussion of melody or harmony. Intervals played sequentially create melody, intervals played simultaneously create harmony. Intervals are classified as either perfect, major or minor. |
Category: Red Belt: Ear Training
Subcategory: Intervals
Published on: 13 Oct 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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Perfect Intervals: Pillars of Western Music
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Of all the intervals in our Western scale, the perfect intervals are the ones that act as the anchors for all the other intervals to swirl around in music. Learn to recognize them by ear, and you will have a solid foundation on which to build your later understanding of chords, scales and progressions. |
Category: White Belt: Ear Training
Subcategory: Intervals
Published on: 10 Oct 2003
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Tritone: The Devil's Interval
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What? The devil's interval? Don't look at us. We didn't invent the name, We're just letting you in on a little known secret among self-taught guitarists. Learn this interval, and why it can wreak so much mayhem in music. |
Category: Green Belt: Ear Training
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Published on: 10 Oct 2003
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