Learning To Play Extreme Guitar – Fun With The Aeolian Mode-Relative And Parallel Minor Keys

Try this simple chord progression. Play an A min 7 chord for two measures. Progress to a D min7 chord for one measure, then return to the A min7 chord. We just established a tonality; a tonal center. The A min7 chord functions as the I minor (the tonic, home base). The D min7 chord is a great movement away from the tonic and functions as a IV minor. Returning to the A min7 chord (I minor), after playing the IV minor (D min7), is like a breath of fresh air. Everything sounds right.

Once again, it’s important to become educated in music. An authentic understanding of music theory will help in all areas of music. Understanding the function of scales and chords enhances one’s ability to compose, perform, arrange, and produce music. Knowledge is power.

This article is a very basic approach to the two types of minor key application. For an in-depth analysis, it’s best to seek out an instructor or program that is very descriptive. The intent here, is to merely skim the surface with some of these concepts.

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In my opinion, Parallel Minor is the greatest an best movement away from the major key signature. A I minor, IV minor progression in Parallel Minor is C minor7 to F minor7. This is a complete departure from the major key (C major) tonality. In the key of C major, the I chord is C major and the IV chord is F major. In the key of C parallel minor, both the C major chord (I major) and the F major chord (IV major) become minor chords (the 3rd of each chord is lowered by 1/2 step to create minor). Note that when Aeolian is played as Relative minor, the chords still reflect the major key signature. There is more contrast when played as Parallel minor. When Aeolian (or any of the other traditional minor scales; subjects for future articles) is played at C, it is referred to as parallel (key of C major) minor to the key of C major. Therefore, for the key of C major, there are two traditional minor key signatures; Relative and Parallel.

As guitarists, an important element of performance is to establish a tonal center for our audience to hold on to. Tonic absolutely rules when establishing any tonality. What is meant by tonality? All of the notes and chords that belong in or to any piece of music.

Relative Minor and Parallel Minor key signatures are great tonalities to establish in order to take your listener away from the respective major scale. It is this movement away from the major tonality that provides interest and color for the listener to experience. Tonality and movement (musical motion) is everything when painting a musical portrait.

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There are many things to consider when establishing a minor tonality. Too many to discuss in this article. However, many of these subjects will be addressed in future articles. Stay tuned.

First and foremost, for those of you who have not read my previous article pertaining to the the Aeolian Mode, it would be beneficial for you to do so. Otherwise, this particular article might become confusing at times. It’s always best to build a solid foundation of understanding before engaging in progressive principles.

Contrary to what some might think, obtaining a great foundation in music theory doesn’t take years. It takes the desire to learn and a logical approach to these principles. A professional guitar course can chop years off the time it would take for one to learn these concepts in a traditional college or university setting.

Learning To Play Extreme Guitar – Fun With The Aeolian Mode-Relative And Parallel Minor Keys

The associated major key signature for this example is C major. Remember, the Aeolian Mode is rooted on the 6th degree of it’s own respective major scale. A is the 6th degree of the C major scale. Therefore, it is referred to as the Relative Minor for the key of C major (see previous article).

As we have previously discovered, the Aeolian Mode is a minor scale. It is also referred to as the Pure Minor Scale or the Natural Minor scale. It has several unique characteristics both in sound and application (see previous article for explanation). Further, the Aeolian Mode (scale) is rooted on the 6th degree of it’s respective major scale. Once again, read the previous article for all of the essential details surrounding the Aeolian Mode.

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The Aeolian Mode (Natural Minor Scale) played at the fifth fret (A), will establish the melodic tonal center for the above referenced progression. In short, we just created a minor tonality both in harmonic structure and melodic structure.

While others are losing valuable time on the standard old books of C, F and G, this is your opportunity to step directly into the future with a guitar method that is as flexible as your own personality and as vast as your imagination will allow.

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The Green-Eyed Monster – Are Your Friends Really Happy For Your Success?

2.) The Third Degree — It�s your big day, supposedly, but some people always need to make it about them and nothing takes the excitement out of your big announcement like getting the third degree from your friends. When, �Wow! That�s terrific news!� gets replaced by, �Oh yeah? How�d you get that?� it may be time to start asking, �With friends like these, who needs jealous enemies?� Honestly, there are only two reasons that your friends are giving you the Third Degree: one, they want to know how you got what you got so they can follow the same course to get it for themselves or two, they want to find some special reason why the good fortune is happening to you and not them�like you slept with the magazine editor, the label guy is your cousin, or your blackmailed the management company into signing you on.

5.) The Saboteur — This is the jealous friend you need to watch out for. He or she may be all big smiles, back slaps, and free beer at the time of the announcement but secretly there�s a hidden plan hatching quietly under his/her luminous jack-o-lantern grin. Days after your spill your great luck, you may find that it is no longer happening. Either the source of your good fortune is now simply not interested or has found a better candidate on which to bestow the greatness of your former musical riches: your jealous friend, The Saboteur! Mum�s the word around this one.

Unfortunately, we�ve all had friends in the music business just like this and although you may think it will pass, that they will grow out of it at some point, usually these personality types are here to stay. Any of these sorts of pals will drain you emotionally and creatively, backstab you at every turn, and definitely not look out for your best interests. In short these so-called �friends� are not your friends at all. Real friends support you through good and bad, and are genuinely happy for your good fortune even if the same level of success never comes to them. So, if any of your buddies fit one or more of the criteria above: get away from them, change your phone number, don�t answer your door, wear a hat, cross to the other side of the street when you see them�and then please, make some real friends.

6.) The Beggar — Probably, the most insidious of all of the jealous friends, the Beggar will fall apart seconds after the exciting revelation has left your lips. �Why, oh why�, he or she will exclaim, �Is this happening for you and not me? What have I done wrong? I�ve put years and years into this business and nothing ever happens for me!� There will be whining, cajoling and, of course, lots of crying. Crocodile tears will spill down the face of your jealous friend as he or she begs you to get him/her the same opportunities you have. There will be threats of �getting out of the business,� threats of never talking to you again because �I�m too much of a loser to be friends with a successful person like you,� threats of disappearing forever, running away, holding his or her breath until death ensues. By the time The Beggar is done with you, you�ll gladly hand over your new musical prize, just to get the begging to stop.

After all, your group of great friends has been chasing the musical brass ring together since high school: the ups and downs, the successes and failures, the hits and flops. Certainly, when you tell them of your latest big break, they�ll stand up and cheer, slap you on the back, raise their glasses in toast, buy you drinks until closing time. You are happier than you�ve ever been. You are going to be a rockstar with your awesome group of best friends by your side.

But what if your band of brothers or sisters, isn�t quite as happy for you as you�d expected when your share your big news with them? What if there�s more silence than cheering, more pouting than back slapping�what if you have to buy all of your own drinks at your celebratory event?

The Green-Eyed Monster – Are Your Friends Really Happy For Your Success?

The following are a few tips that may help you to determine if your friends are more like the green-eyed monster than they are monstrously elated over your newest career success:

4.) The Red Baron — Don�t get used to the high of your good fortune just yet, because the Red Baron will shoot it down faster than you can say, �jealous loser.� No matter what your exciting news, the Red Baron will find a way to discredit it and reduce it to frivolity within minutes. Sadly, he or she will also do their best to convince everyone in your company that your great excitement is seriously lame by citing examples of his/her own experience in the same case (and how stupid it was) or that �friends� of his/hers have been where you are now and nothing much really came of it. Expect to be constantly disappointed with the Red Baron as a friend.

1.) The Closet Seethe — Nothing is more disappointing than sharing exciting news with friends only to have them stare blankly at you, wounded, as if the tidbit you just shared had been not of your good fortune but of their impending deaths. Silence such as this is almost always indicative of creative jealousy. Your friends are exhibiting the classic, �If you don�t have anything nice to say�� adage by simply saying nothing. The big fake smile and croaking of, �Great. I�m really happy for you� through clenched teeth only serves to make your friends seem more seething than when they were mute.

3.) The Alpha Dog — Clearly, there is an aspect of the artistic personality that craves being the center of attention. It is often that drive for fame and adoration that�s shaped some of history�s hugest popstars. So, don�t be surprised if your jealous friend squashes your elation with the announcement of his or her bigger news. If you win Best Songwriter in the city, then he/she�s won Best Songwriter in the country, in the world, in the galaxy, or in the universe. This is the kind of musician that constantly needs affirmation (from him/herself and others) that he/she is the hottest, coolest and most talented artist around. No matter how famous you get, you�ll always play second fiddle to the Alpha Dog�even if it�s just in his or her mind.

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Beginner Piano Lessons for a New Year – Find the Right Piano Teacher in Your Area

Beginner Piano Lessons for a New Year – Find the Right Piano Teacher in Your Area

� The easiest way to find a piano teacher in your area is to expand your area! The Internet is a great way to find information about piano lessons and piano teachers, as well as home piano lessons and resources. Do an internet search for “piano lessons for children” or “piano resources”. Here you’ll find internet resources available immediately to guide you in supporting your children in piano lessons at home. You can also do an internet search of “Piano lessons for children + your home town” to locate music instructors in your area. Check their websites to learn about them and call any that interest you.

� Look in the phone book under Music Instruction and call for interviews. Check the listings in your area. Today you even do this online. Make a list of questions you want to begin with such as location, and cost. But don’t stop there. Ask for an interview for you and your child to meet the teachers in person to get an idea of how the teacher will relate to your child. The person you are looking for should go out of their way to make your child feel comfortable and send a message that says, “I would love to be your piano teacher.”

� Check with your local sheet music store. Your local music store is a common location where music instructors leave their business cards for shoppers to find them.

� Send an email to your friends requesting their knowledge about piano teachers in your area. Referrals are the most common way parents locate piano teachers. Since we trust our friends, we trust their opinions. If after all of the above you are still unsure about choosing a piano teacher, ask your friends for a little help. Piano teachers really appreciate it when their students send them referrals, so this is a good way for your friends to say thank you to their child’s piano teacher for a job well done.

Start at the top of this list and work your way down. I guarantee you’ll find plenty of options to get your child started in piano lessons for the New Year. Remember, you don’t have to wait until another school year rolls around. You can begin today!

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Guitar Lessons Online – About Strumming

Some guitar players, when strumming downwards, like to use the nail of the middle finder; others like to use the nails of all fingers (except the thumb). Generally, they also prefer to do upward strumming using the nail of their thumb finger.

That way, they will certainly add richness and variety to the song or piece they play. Further more, they will surely come to a time when they are required to strum the chords of a song or melody that others are singing or playing.

Guitar Lessons Online – About Strumming

You strum a guitar strings by stroking all or several strings in a single downward or upward right hand movement.

Sometimes you strum all six strings with a single quick movement. Sometimes you just strum the bass strings, and sometimes you strum only the treble ones.

The most important thing to take into account when learning and playing guitar strumming, is sound quality. Strumming is not just some noise made while others are singing or playing. It is music too!

This way, you can achieve very colourful and rich guitar strumming patterns.

Remember, quality of sound is your goal.

You can learn guitar strumming patterns yourself by reading and practicing guitar lessons and books. In that case you must listen very carefully to recordings of music with some guitar strumming showing up. You will certainly learn a lot, too, watching videos about guitar strumming. Go to YouTube, do a search, and you will find a lot of them.

Strumming is a guitar playing technique that every guitar player should master. Even those who learned and play mostly by reading music notes, should learn to play by strumming, and play it very well.

But there are many players that like the sounds obtained when strings are plucked or strummed using the fingertips (fleshy part of the finger end).

Besides, not all strokes are played with the same strength (intensity). Some of them are accented (played louder) than others.

You must focus all your efforts on getting the most clean, neat and musical sound out of your guitar.

A strumming pattern is a repeated sequence of upward and downward strokes, each one of them with its own characteristics (nail of fingertip, upward or downward, accented or not).

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What’s So Great About An Acoustic Guitar?

Because the unamplified sound of a guitar is not loud enough to compete with a full range of other stringed instruments, the development of acoustic electric guitars filled a need. Acoustic electric guitars have the sound of an acoustic, but are amplified electronically.

An acoustic guitar is the name applied to any guitar which is not electric, but more specifically to classic guitars which evolved into the modern country-western or folk guitar. The name acoustic guitar has also been applied to various stringed instruments including baroque guitar, renaissance guitar, classical guitar, and flamenco guitar. Steel stringed acoustic guitars include the 12 string acoustic guitars and the resonator guitars such as the Dobro.

12 String acoustic guitars usually have steel strings and are widely used to present an acoustic guitar solo in blues, folk and rock n’ roll music.

Acoustic guitar strings are generally made of either nylon such as those on the classical guitar or the steel-stringed folk guitars. With the nylon acoustic guitar strings you will often hear an acoustic guitar solo featuring polyphonic arrangements equal in complexity to the piano solos.

Acoustic Guitar Magazine is the prime source for music and information regarding any acoustic instrument, but as its name suggests, the focus is primarily on the acoustic guitar. The magazine has sections devoted to acoustic equipment with product ratings and descriptions. It has extensive links to download sites for music.
Readers’ Forums (there are several) for Acoustic Guitar Magazine are heavily posted and cover almost every conceivable topic associated with the acoustic guitar.

Acoustic guitars are made of many different materials, but typically the more costly guitars feature solid wood tops, backs and sides. The wood of preference for the top is often spruce while the remainder of the instrument is made of solid rosewood, mahogany or maple. Some of the vintage acoustic guitars are indeed beautiful works of art, with sound quality that improves with age according to the owners.

Standard tuning for acoustic guitar notes is EADGBE, with the two E’s one octave apart. Acoustic guitar notes can be written in standard musical notation for the melodic line, or as acoustic guitar tabs (tablature). Acoustic guitar tabs are a pictorial representation of where the fingers are to be placed on the strings in order to strum or pick a chord. Once the chords are learned, players typically only need the chord name in order to accompany singers or play with a group.

What’s So Great About An Acoustic Guitar?

The great musicians associated with acoustic guitars are profiled in issues and readers get a chance to vote on everything from picking styles to gear. There are even lessons provided at all skill levels.

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What’s So Great About An Acoustic Guitar?

Because the unamplified sound of a guitar is not loud enough to compete with a full range of other stringed instruments, the development of acoustic electric guitars filled a need. Acoustic electric guitars have the sound of an acoustic, but are amplified electronically.

An acoustic guitar is the name applied to any guitar which is not electric, but more specifically to classic guitars which evolved into the modern country-western or folk guitar. The name acoustic guitar has also been applied to various stringed instruments including baroque guitar, renaissance guitar, classical guitar, and flamenco guitar. Steel stringed acoustic guitars include the 12 string acoustic guitars and the resonator guitars such as the Dobro.

12 String acoustic guitars usually have steel strings and are widely used to present an acoustic guitar solo in blues, folk and rock n’ roll music.

Acoustic guitar strings are generally made of either nylon such as those on the classical guitar or the steel-stringed folk guitars. With the nylon acoustic guitar strings you will often hear an acoustic guitar solo featuring polyphonic arrangements equal in complexity to the piano solos.

Acoustic Guitar Magazine is the prime source for music and information regarding any acoustic instrument, but as its name suggests, the focus is primarily on the acoustic guitar. The magazine has sections devoted to acoustic equipment with product ratings and descriptions. It has extensive links to download sites for music.
Readers’ Forums (there are several) for Acoustic Guitar Magazine are heavily posted and cover almost every conceivable topic associated with the acoustic guitar.

Acoustic guitars are made of many different materials, but typically the more costly guitars feature solid wood tops, backs and sides. The wood of preference for the top is often spruce while the remainder of the instrument is made of solid rosewood, mahogany or maple. Some of the vintage acoustic guitars are indeed beautiful works of art, with sound quality that improves with age according to the owners.

Standard tuning for acoustic guitar notes is EADGBE, with the two E’s one octave apart. Acoustic guitar notes can be written in standard musical notation for the melodic line, or as acoustic guitar tabs (tablature). Acoustic guitar tabs are a pictorial representation of where the fingers are to be placed on the strings in order to strum or pick a chord. Once the chords are learned, players typically only need the chord name in order to accompany singers or play with a group.

What’s So Great About An Acoustic Guitar?

The great musicians associated with acoustic guitars are profiled in issues and readers get a chance to vote on everything from picking styles to gear. There are even lessons provided at all skill levels.

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Organizing a Band – Dealing With Change and Keys to Success

Other Organizing a Band articles written by this author:
Musical Style, Selecting Members, Goals and Timelines, Dealing with Change and Keys to Success.

“Dead Air” is your biggest enemy. Don’t let time go by without communicating to the audience. I played in “show” bands where your every move and words were rehearsed. I think I would have rather worked at the steel plant. A natural, honest, and upbeat presentation will keep your audiences attention until the next tune.

Circumstances cause changes in band membership. The band will usually be different when a member is replaced. In one band we lost our keyboard player and went on without one. We wound up with a tighter sound, more gigs, and more money. Pick average musicians you can get along with rather than superstars who want to run the entire show. After auditioning replacements, talk about what you have to change. You new guitar player might not be the soloist your old one was but maybe he can sing better and open up more avenues of songs for you to do. If you get a chance, read “Who Moved My Cheese” by Spencer Johnson, MD.

Many of you have played music on different levels and it’s good to talk to other musicians to get ideas and learn from their experience. Some musicians are happy to rehearse together only, some are happy to do cover songs and others write and play original content and go for the big time. No matter what you decide, the planning of your endeavor is a most often ignored and important part of your success.

Don’t get locked into the same old music. Some songs are treasures and you will want to play them forever. Put some new stuff in there every once in a while to challenge yourself and keep things fresh. There is nothing more frustrating to hear a good band, and years later they are doing 80% of the same old stuff. If you have old hit songs that may be the exception. Don’t be afraid to do original music. Economic times are tough. People want to enjoy themselves when spending their money listening to music. Give them your all.

I think it might be a tie between the number of bands I’ve been with and the number of cars I’ve owned, especially when I was younger. Playing music can be very frustrating. There may be times in your life when you will participate more and sometimes less. Keep at it! Music keeps you young and alive.

Organizing a Band – Dealing With Change and Keys to Success

Communicate with each other on stage. Hand signals or a few words can serve as a reminder for stops, endings, dynamics, and a variety of things. Speaking of dynamics (getting louder or softer is a general definition of dynamics), they can make or break you. Music with a constant loud or soft approach has little feeling. Build your songs and make great dynamic endings. If you are doing covers, don’t be afraid to change things. Make each song your own.

Change is all about being adaptable. Music styles, Band Members, Gigs, and most of all – you change. Keep you eye on the prize – playing as often and for as long as you can.

DEALING WITH CHANGE AND KEYS TO SUCCESS

Music is a business. You have to decide how seriously you want to pursue your personal enjoyment versus making money. This is not to say that you can’t have both and sometimes if you plan carefully you can have a rewarding experience in every way.

Music is all about entertainment. I am not suggesting you get a monkey and organ grinder. Act like you have an interest in what’s going on. Have confidence. You’re probably much better than you think. If your band makes mistakes on stage (I call them clams), don’t turn around and look at the guy on stage like he just wet his pants. If your whole band screws up a song, keep going or restart and make a joke of it to the audience.

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As soon as the music sounds dull it’s time for a change – the next section of music. This is the point where a composer will add something-new (contrast) or, if she is smart, end the piece. If the music does not have that freshness, that touch of inspired in the moment fantasy, you’ll be able to detect and hear it. Some composers are so in touch with their feeling that they can take you on a 20 or 30 minute journey using very little means – but by using the elements of repetition and contrast maintain listener interest.

Improvisation and Musical Form

First, get your “A” section. The first few bars (8 usually) is more than enough to propel you forward. You must adopt a listening attitude to hear what is coming next. You don’t force nor will it into being. This will not give you what you want, which is, I’m assuming, inspired content. Listen, listen, listen and the music will come. If it doesn’t just do what Beethoven did.

He worked on 3 or 4 pieces at a time. When the inspiration dried up on a particular piece he was working on, he just moved on to another and picked up on the others later on. You can do the same. Be bold and go forward. Don’t be afraid of making mistakes. Be afraid of not trying.

Do you ramble on endlessly with your improvisations? If so, good. This has its place in music making and in new age piano playing in particularly. Just listen to New Age pianist Michael Jones’s music to hear an example of this kind of free-form improvisation.

Now, some of you want to create something that will give the listener a slightly more cohesive experience. How is this accomplished? By forming the music into a shape – an ABA shape for our purposes here. To give form to music does not require as much theory and technique as most people think. In fact, it is as simple as applying the principles of repetition and contrast.

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Sardinian folk songs:
Sardinia is the most culturally distinct of all the regions in Italy. This isolated island is better known for the ‘Tenores’ polyphonic chant. Their sacred songs ‘Gozos’ and ‘Launeddas’ – basically a wood wind instrument which is a type of triple clarinet is used play certain complex style of music which over the time has achieved international attention. It can be played with the help of extensive variations applied on a few melodic phrases which could make a single song last for about an hour.

The Italian Folk Songs

Southern folk songs:
Folk musical tradition in southern Italy includes religious music. The songs are dependent on rhythms which is dependent on the type of disease. A famous folk dance called the ‘Tarantella’ is performed to cure the bite of the ‘Lycosa Tarantula’. In this a female dancer exhausts her self by performing and the rhythm of the music and song used are unique for the exact kind of spider. The region Puglia is home to quite a few brass bands who also work in collaboration with jazz musicians.

The rural chanting of the ‘Tenores’ in polyphonic sound is sung in four vocal parts which are ‘Bassu’ or bass mesa, ‘Boghe’ or the middle, ‘Contra’ or a counter and ‘Bhoge’ or the leader and vocalist.

The ‘Otava’ is an eight line stanza and is a common form of lyrics in Sardinia. This kind of variation allows a performer or singer a certain amount of improvisation.

Northern and central Italy are well known for the medieval sung poetry known as ‘Ottava Rima’. This is performed by the ‘Poeti Contadini’ or the ‘peasants’ poets’ who essentially use poems of the Greek poet Homer or the famous Italian poet Dante. These poems were generally characterized by modern lyrics which address political or social issues. Among all the poetry that exists in Italy, Tuscan folk poetry is considered to be the closest in form and style to high culture poetry.

The sacred ‘Gozos’ or the sacred songs are heard during religious celebrations.

Northern and central folk songs:
The northern population of Italy derived their music from their roots. Historically, the region exhibited Celtic and Slavic influences in their culture. It derived it songs from areas like Piedmont and Lombardy. The city Genoese is considered to be the home of ‘Trallalero’ which is a form of music where a polyphonic vocal style is performed with the help of five voices, among which the leads voice imitates a guitar.

Italy’s folk music is divided into different spheres of geographical influences namely Northern, Central, Southern, Sicily and Sardinia.

Italian folk songs comprise of different influences from the different regions which the people hail from. This is because national unification took place after very long time due to which the separate cultures remained un-homogenized leading to have the dependence of folk music on geographic positioning. Generally speaking, Italian folk music has quite a deep and complex history.

Sicily’s historical connections with mainland Italy and in earlier days with Greeks, Normans, French and Spanish make its music diverse. Due to this, there exists a unique fusion of musical elements on the island.

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Did you know that it is quite possible to predict what chord comes next in a song with accuracy approaching 85%?

True. Every note is part of several different chords. So it is easy to harmonize any song once you know the secret.

Did you know that there are only 12 major keys you can play in, but you only really have to master one key to play most popular songs?

Did You Know that Music is Based on Natural “Laws”?

True. Apply different rhythms to the same chords, and you have many styles of music! With the very same chords I can play boogie, jazz, rock, pop, gospel, new age, ragtime.

Answers to piano playing music questions:

How many of these facts do you know about music & piano playing? Test yourself and then check the answers at the bottom of the page:

True. Understanding chords and how them form the skeleton of music accelerates the learning curve exponentially.

True. I know that’s hard to believe, but remember that music is based on math. Once you understand a thing called the “Circle of 4ths” it’s a piece of cake. In fact, I can tell you right now that 85% of the time the G chord comes directly after the D7 chord. So next time you run into the D7 chord, you have an educated guess of 85% that the next chord will be some form of the G chord. (G, G7 etc.) If you’re into amazing your friends, that’ll do it!

Did you know that it is possible to easily match any melody note (tune) to a chord, so you can harmonize any note?

Did you know that guitar chords are the same as piano chords — the only thing different is the instrument and the resulting sound?

Did you know that Beethoven’s Fur Elise and the blues song “Summertime” uses the exact same chords for the theme of the song?

Did you know that by coming in through the backdoor of piano playing — chords — you can start making wonderful and satisfying sounds on the piano in just a few weeks instead of a few years — even if you don’t know Middle C from Tweedle Dee?

Did you know you can use the same chords to play boogie, blues, new age, gospel, pop, rock, jazz, country – anything except classical music? (And even some classics!)

True. Yep. They both use the A minor chord and the E7 chord in their themes.

The bottom line is this: Music is based on natural law and is mathematical in nature. Understanding is the key to both rapid learning and getting more enjoyment out of the process.

Did you know that music is based on natural “laws” — like gravity — and by learning to understand how those natural laws work we can actually understand what we are doing when we play — we don’t have to be at the mercy of what someone else has written on a piece of music.

True. Musical forms such as “AABA” and “ABA” are the basis of thousands and thousands of songs.

Did you know that hundreds of songs use exactly the same form, so by learning that form you can know what’s coming next in a song?

True. Chords are chords. Once you know them, you can apply them to any instrument.

True. That’s because there are just 3 primary chords in any key — like family members: Mom, Dad, Child. Get to know those 3 and you’ve got it.

True. It’s like languages. It’s great to be able to speak several, but you can get by with just one. I’d love to speak other languages, but I can get by with just English.

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