by Jermaine Griggs · 7 comments
in Ear-Training
If you’ve been following my last two videos, I’ve been talking about a big project I’m working on.
All I’ll say here is that the new project has a lot to do with learning songs.
Songs! Songs! Songs!
by Jermaine Griggs · 7 comments
in Playing By Ear
In this post, I reveal 4 ways to take your playing to the next level. Unlike my last post, this one isn’t just for beginners. Experienced musicians can use these techniques to skyrocket their skills too…
by Jermaine Griggs · 0 comments
in Ear-Training
You guys are really going to enjoy this! It comes from a private training class I held in 2005. Students paid $39.95 per month to a be a part of this exclusive group. This was training #5 and has audio and video below…
by Jermaine Griggs · 12 comments
in Ear-Training
When it comes to effectively listening to music to learn new songs, there’s different ways to do it: 1) Perfect Pitch 2) Relative Pitch Now, before we get started discussing what relative pitch is, let me briefly cover perfect pitch. Some think that you need perfect pitch to play by ear. This is not true. [...]
by Jermaine Griggs · 0 comments
in Ear-Training
It is important to be able to recognize chords in songs and progressions. For example, a major chord is associated with the following moods: -happy -glad -funny -exciting -day -sunlight -nursery rhymes The minor chord is commonly associated with: -sad -horror -sneaky -night -dark The seventh/dominant chord is commonly associated with: -blues -gospel Play a [...]
