
Music 101 (part 1)
If you want to take up guitar seriously, but don’t know what’s involved, this series hopefully will help you. Here we’ll...
If you want to take up guitar seriously, but don’t know what’s involved, this series hopefully will help you. Here we’ll...
Last time, we looked at effective learning with directed practice and recall. Now we must briefly explore how musical sounds are created by ...
Last time, we looked at the concepts of pitch, octave, and semitone. This time, we’ll take a high-level look at rhythm, melody, and ph...
Last time, we looked at the concepts of rhythm, melody and phrasing This time, we’ll take a high-level look at harmony , scale, chord,...
If you are embarking on skiing lessons, you’ll never have experienced skiing before. In this sense, you’re a complete beginner. But, hav...
This is the follow up to How musical is a novice? A chord is made up of a bunch of notes separated by various distances, and that overall co...
If you’ve read the last couple of posts on “how musical is a beginner“, they may make you realise at a conscious level how...
Here is an insight into my approach to simplify music theory. Of course, before recording was invented, the only way to share music was vi...
Many are unaware of the huge simplification that a mastery of intervals offers, not to mention they are critical to controlling the emotiona...
The main goal of this article is to provide you with a set of visual shapes (interval shapes formed by your fingers, and seeable in your min...