When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow - you are not understanding yourself.
- Bruce Lee
Daily Definition:
Control Voltage
An electrical signal used to adjust the values of settings in analog circuits. If you send a specific electrical voltage to a module of a synthesizer (such as an ASDR envelope, you can specify what you want the module to do (perhaps lengthen the decay time).
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Basic Theory of Harmonic Scale Progressions
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
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
Been playing for 10 years and still can't read standard notation? It's not because you haven't tried... it's because it can only be taught by one who really knows how. By the end of this course, you will be hearing music in your head anytime you see written music.
Category: Red Belt: Theory
Subcategory: Reading Music
Published on: 09 Jan 2004
This lesson will show where natural guitar harmonics are found on your guitar, and how to avoid unwanted harmonic feedback. You'll learn enough practical theory and observations to understand harmonics.
Category: Brown Belt: Theory
Subcategory: Harmonics
Published on: 21 Apr 2004
Reading Music for Guitar: Pegging Notes to Fretboard
In this lesson, we present you with a free and useful tool that will help you tie the notes you read on paper to the positions on the fretboard. You can download the graphic, and make it your desktop wallpaper to help you learn it while you are waiting for your hourglass to go away.
Category: Red Belt: Theory
Subcategory: Reading Music
Published on: 12 Jan 2004
At the heart of every lesson and every practice session there should be an awareness of three vital and essential forces in all music. Learning how to manipulate these forces will give your music and performances tremendous depth, clarity and power.
Category: White Belt: Theory
Subcategory: Music Elements
Published on: 21 Apr 2004
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
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
This lesson explains the Circle of 5ths, where it came from, what it is used for, and what its limitations are. All guitar players who want to really know how music works, should know this cold.
Category: Red Belt: Theory
Subcategory: Music Theory
Published on: 13 Oct 2003
At the heart of every lesson and every practice session there should be an awareness of three vital and essential forces in all music. Learning how to manipulate these forces will give your music and performances tremendous depth, clarity and power.