+1 on the Starer book. I have a fun little app called the Rhythm Sight Reading Trainer by Rolfs Apps. It puts up an exercise in standard notation and you tap it out with your finger in time to a...
+1 on the Starer book. I have a fun little app called the Rhythm Sight Reading Trainer by Rolfs Apps. It puts up an exercise in standard notation and you tap it out with your finger in time to a...
Looks just right.
Go raibh mile maith agat.
Wow! I really appreciate that. Yeah, it's quite different from what he's teaching. I'll try to work through these tabs this week. I usually work by ear, but this gives me a great foundation.
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I think one of the big problems is that if you get a note ‘correct ‘ then you advance in your studies by one point, if you get it wrong then you go back by maybe up to twenty points. That’s it....
Gig was last night and "Daughters" went very well. The three motifs (guitar intro, short guitar break and short piano break) are very mandolin friendly.
For the bridge, I played the first chord...
As a former rock and 'round-the-campfire (more like 'round-the-6pack?) musician who's lately playing in a mandolin orchestra, I heartily agree. We're all amateurs, and about evenly split between the...
Today is the 25th anniversary of Jule Styne's passing. Here's one of his songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq0s1sCB83s
Thanks mmuussiiccaall
I adjusted the proportioning on your diagram to see the frets further up the neck (hope that’s ok).
To begin with, I like to make sense of the fretboard by looking for the 1...
Here’s my favourite cheat sheet from Paul Hardy:
http://pghardy.net/concertina/tunebooks/pgh_my_tunebooks_cheat.pdf
And even more of a change of subject, sorry, but this is kind of amusing. ...
Here is a way I suggest for folks to learn the names of the notes on an instrument:
First, you need to learn all 12 note names in music.
A A#/Bb B C C#/Db D D#/Eb E F F#/Gb...
Well, maybe I have it wrong, but here is how I read it:
The first pattern is down/up four times. The second removes the last 'up' strum in the measure, the third removes the last two 'ups', and...