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Break free from box 1 for pentatonics

Pentatonics all over the place This video demonstrates using emuso to investigate the pentatonics, from the 5 region system, 3-nps, string s...

Is music being taught as simply as it could? The fact is that you can understand how to play a scale, and chords from it, in any musical key...

Here is brief look at the impact of guitar tuning on scale and chord shapes Any scale or chord of a particular type has notes that must occu...

Exploring intervals for fretboard freedom Emuso makes it amazingly easy to explore intervals (in chords, scales, and by themselves in genera...

Being creative with diminished triads blended with minor pentatonic Barry Harris, the legendary jazz bebop pianist, added a b6 to the jazz m...

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...

Hi guys. Following on from Drastically Cut Learning Time With Intervals (2) today, we’ll have a brief discussion on why intervals are...

We explore the ideas of song structure, phrase, melodic outline and emphasis, and syncopation. If we understand these, we’ll understan...

We’ve looked at the visualisation side of intervals (shapes) and moving them around. Now we move on to the fun stuff, the creative stu...