First, about the pentatonic thing. Playing a pentatonic pattern means playing 5 tones, since "penta" means 5. But still, playing the "G scale form",...
How did you finger your A chord? Just wonderin'. Lots or acceptable ways of doing it. I learned the "wrong" way and continue to use it. It prevent...
No, I meant the Diatonic pattern. The G Diatonic pattern can be played anywhere on the neck, but it's not always a G scale.
But if you engage your scales, you unlock the structure of music and mastery of your instrument. I'd recommend to the OP the book "Fretboard Logic."...
"A couple of Pick Floyd songs too. Comfortably Numb"--That's how I learned the Bm, right there. Just played Comfortably Numb for a few days and I had...
Here's my schedule: play songs or riffs that involve techniques I want to learn or techniques I need practice on. Play until I get tired of it. Onc...
MikeO, I had a hard time finding a more full arrangement of Ode to Joy. All I could find for the longest time was only the melody, and it sounded so ...
One practice technique I have used and found successful is to change which finger moves first. That worked for me when I was first learning chords.
37 views and only one comment? Can you guys give me some feedback about this song? Would you like to see more of this kind of thing? Is it too diff...
I have no clue what you guys are talking about. I play for myself. I play because it's my escape. I play because it's a challenge. I play because ...
Forgot to add that once you get your fretting hand well sorted out, it doesn't even move all that much. For example, for the opening 2 measures I use...
The words are totally wrong to the most important lines of this song they are.....I gazed a gazely stare at all the millions hereWe must have died alo...
I was unaware that John Williams even had a thumb on his left hand. I think Chris C is lying when he claims to have seen it.