Posted on 03 December 2008
Today’s lesson is real important because it puts together all the stuff we’ve learned in the past few posts. If you haven’t read them, now may be a good time.
This audio lesson gives you a nice little recap and way to apply this altered scale to real chord progressions and songs! Check it out…
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Posted on 17 October 2008
Lately, we’ve been talking about power chords, tritones, and substitutions.
Today, I want to show you how to use tritones and minor chords to form crazy-sounding dominant ninth chords.
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Tags: bass line, dominant 9, dominant ninth chords, dominant ninths, minor triads, shouting music, tritone substitution, tritones
Posted on 16 October 2008
Our last radio show was awesome! We took several callers, gave away tons of prizes, and delved into some more music theory concepts!
One of our callers had a question about a particular altered chord and I spent some time unraveling it with her. In this post, I just want to take some time to review what I told her on the air. I think this will be extremely helpful for people in the same situation.
Her question had to do with playing a C diminished 7 chord over F bass. She wanted to know what type of chord it was. So we broke it down…
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Tags: altering chords, dominant 7 chord, music number system, polychords, scale degrees, scale tones, transposing, transposition
Posted on 10 October 2008
Wait! I know you’re thinking… “whoa, big words.”
But let me assure you that this concept is very easy to understand. Maybe you’ve heard of it. Perhaps you’ve seen these words thrown around forums. Well, I’m finally going to demystify tritone substitutions for you…
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Tags: 3 whole tones, secondary dominant chords, secondary dominants, tritone substitution, tritones
Posted on 19 August 2008
Ok, so you’re experienced. Maybe you’re an expert sight reader or you’ve been playing by ear for several years. One thing is for certain…
You’re reading this page so you definitely want to learn more or get to an even higher level in your playing! There are a couple of things (out of many) that separate one musician from another…
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Tags: advanced, experienced, improvisation, soloing, speed