• Introducing Music’s Favorite Motion

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    If you take inventory of all the songs you know and analyze what your left-hand bass is doing, you’ll undoubtedly discover that most movements are that of fourth intervals. A perfect fourth to be exact. What is a perfect fourth interval? The easiest way is to think of it is the 4th tone of any […]

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    VIDEO LESSON: The MISSING PIECE OF THE PUZZLE to playing almost any song out there (FREE link to yet another 12pg report included)…

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    Want to share chords with others?

    If you frequent forums or message boards and chat with other musicians, you’ll love this new tool I’ve built.

    (Actually, I’ve had this tool for a while but today marks the release of the actual generator tool… that makes it easy for you to create chord graphics on the fly).

    You’ll have to see it for yourself. It’s still in beta testing but check it out…

    Click here to try it

    Enjoy —

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    Here’s another interesting way to look at major scales

    By now, you should know your major scales. If you don’t, there’s plenty of lessons on here to get you up to speed. But that’s not what I want to talk about today.

    I want to talk about an entirely different way to look at scales. A way that will help you to learn and understand chord progressions a lot faster! (Isn’t that what we all want? Chord progressions create SONGS!).

    Don’t get me wrong… scales are great. I’m a great advocate of learning scales in the beginning. I just don’t like when people get wrapped up into playing them just to “warm up” (and stuff like that). I think they are much more important than that…

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    Here’s an exercise that’ll get you to remember “couples” tonight

    In yesterday’s lesson, I talked about couples.

    The premise was basically to look at chord progressions as small little “couples.” (When I say “couple,” I’m specifically talking about a pair of chords… just two.)…

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    Yes you can! Play a top-charting pop song with just 4 chords!

    I’m off to support my grandma as she has surgery today in Long Beach but I wanted to post this short lesson before I leave.

    I just posted a mega 33-minute video so this lesson will just give you an abbreviated version of the video. What I really encourage you to do is stop what you’re doing and head over to view the entire lesson. Dozens of comments have already come in about it since i posted it last night (…don’t forget to leave me one as well!)

    The tutorial teaches you how to play a popular song with just 4 chords! And they’re all seventh chords too (major, dominant)… [more]

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    Learn these most common chord progression types and never get stuck again…

    When it comes to playing songs, there are tons of progressions to learn. But I want to focus on what I think are the 3 most commonly used types.

    And even among this group, I think the “Pareto principle” or “80-20 rule” would apply — meaning just the 1st type will probably be responsible for majority of chord progressions out there in songs (or as they put it, 20% of something will generally be responsible for 80% of a result).

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