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- Wynton Marsalis
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Orange Belt: Level 3 Guitar Lessons |
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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Extending Bar Chords by Morphing: A Form
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This lesson will show you how to construct 7th, 9th and 13th chords on your knowledge of the A-form bar chord. Again, you start with what you already know, then add to it one or two notes at a time to give color. |
Category: Orange Belt: Chords
Subcategory: Chord Charts
Published on: 18 Dec 2003
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Extending Bar Chords by Morphing: E Form
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No need to be afraid of chords with big numbers. This lesson will show you how to construct 7th, 9th and 13th chords on your knowledge of the E-form bar chord. Extending chords is easier if you start with what you already know, then add to it one note at a time to give color. This lesson will get you on your way. |
Category: Orange Belt: Chords
Subcategory: Chord Charts
Published on: 03 Nov 2003
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Inverted Chord Forms
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Inverted chords are just chords we already know, except they are upside-down. Chord inversions are important for intermediate guitar players to learn to add variety, substance, character, flexibility and feeling to their playing. |
Category: Orange Belt: Chords
Subcategory:
Published on: 09 Oct 2003
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Major and Minor Chord Inversions
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Now that you have mastered open chord shapes and bar chord shapes, it's time to turn those chords upside down! This lesson will expose you to major and minor triad (three-note) inversions. |
Category: Orange Belt: Chords
Subcategory: Chord Charts
Published on: 10 Oct 2003
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Major Scales and the CAGED + 2 System
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The C major scale is the most universally recognizable scale in all of Western music, owing to all the songs written in the key of C. However, learning to play the C scale on a guitar is a bit of a challenge for most beginners, and even intermediate players. It's just one of those scales we have to master, and this lesson breaks it down into manageable chunks. |
Category: Orange Belt: Scales
Subcategory: Scales
Published on: 05 Sep 2004
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Moveable A-Form Barre Chords
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Now we come to the bar chords of the A-form. The A form is the perfect foil for the E-form. Here's why... Leaving the index finger in the same position and just moving the 2, 3, and 4 fingers onto the next higher strings, you are already playing a perfect 4th up the scale. Starting on in the A-form and hanging to the E-form leaving the index finger in the same position, you have gone down a perfect 4th, which is the musical equivalent of going up a perfect 5th. |
Category: Orange Belt: Chords
Subcategory: Chord Charts
Published on: 10 Oct 2003
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Moveable E-Form Barre Chords
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Welcome to Bar-Chords. Fasten your seatbelt, because you are about to learn how to give wings to some easy open-chord shapes that you already know. This will both reinforce what you already know, and open new doors to comfortably play songs that were just out of reach with open chords alone. |
Category: Orange Belt: Chords
Subcategory: Chord Charts
Published on: 10 Oct 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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Pentatonic Scales: Rocker's Favorites
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Pentatonic scales and guitars go together like peas in a pod. They are a favorite of rock, blues and jazz fusion players, because of their forgiving fingering and exotic sound. |
Category: Orange Belt: Scales
Subcategory: Scales
Published on: 28 Jan 2004
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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 CAGED System: Seeing the Fretboard
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After mastering open chords and barre chords, this lesson has the natural next step for helping you see the entire guitar fretboard. It's called the CAGED system, and unlike the name implies, the system is quite liberating. In 5 minutes of studying this lesson, you'll learn more than at perhaps any other lesson about the fretboard. |
Category: Orange Belt: Theory
Subcategory: CAGED
Published on: 28 Jan 2004
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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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Triads: Stacked 3rd Intervals
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Most harmony in Western music is based on tertian harmony, or some combination of major and/or minor 3rd intervals stacked atop one another. Learn some useful guitar chord formulas based on stacked 3rds. |
Category: Orange Belt: Chords
Subcategory: Chord Charts
Published on: 28 Oct 2003
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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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