Springiness and alertness of footwork is the key theme. The rear heel is raised and cocked, ever ready to pull the trigger into action. You are never set or tensed, but are ready and flexible.
- Bruce Lee
Daily Definition:
Quarter Beat
A sub division of time in music twice as long as an eighth beat.
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Yellow Belt: Level 2 Guitar Lessons
3rd and 6th Intervals: The Emotional Intervals
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
Major and Minor scales are the workhorses of Western music (not western like John Wayne, Western like descended from European roots. Learn why these scales are so pervasive, how they are related, and why they are complementary.
Category: Yellow Belt: Scales
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Published on: 27 Jan 2004
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
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
More very common open chords to get to know. By now you are probably beginning to take notice that the chords have a lot in common with the ones you already know, but the sound is quite unique. It's this difference in the quality of the tiny changes that make them so interesting and useful. Pay particular attention to these differences. At the end of this lesson, you'll have 28 of the most popular chords in music in your arsenal!
Category: Yellow Belt: Chords
Subcategory: Chord Charts
Published on: 09 Oct 2003
Congratulations! At the end of this lesson, you will have 35 of the most popular chords used in pop, country, rock, bluegrass and jazz. You will be armed with 35 chord forms that can be transposed up and down the neck to any key by using a capo. This is an amazing accomplishment, and you should be proud. Many professional artists play all their tunes using only the chords you have learned so far!
Category: Yellow Belt: Chords
Subcategory: Chord Charts
Published on: 09 Oct 2003
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
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
Want to Turbocharge your Guitar Learning Abilities?
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
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
Major and Minor scales are the workhorses of Western music (not western like John Wayne, Western like descended from European roots. Learn why these scales are so pervasive, how they are related, and why they are complementary.
