Cooking with Modes Part IV: Circular Sequences
In the fourth instalment in this series I will be focusing on the technique of circular sequences. For those that are unaware what a...
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Aug 54 min
Heavy Metal Marxism: Communism’s Influence On The World Of Music
I had an interesting conversation last week with a friend of mine who was explaining his research into the spread of Marxism and...
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Aug 42 min
A Closer Look At Lute Suite II BWV 997: Sarabande
The third movement in this suite is still quite lengthy compared to other Sarabande examples but it is relatively straightforward in its...
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Aug 37 min
A Closer Look At The Art Of Fugue: Contrapunctus I
My goal in this series is not just an analysis using my method to uncover the sequences and patterns in Bach’s fugal masterpiece, but it...
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Aug 37 min
A Closer Look At Lute Suite II BWV997: Fugue
Well, here we are again, and another fugue by Bach. This time it is the second movement from the second lute suite. It is quite a lengthy...
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Aug 37 min
A Closer Look At Bach’s Lute Suite II BWV 997 Part I: Preludio
This is the first in this series where I will be putting the second lute suite under the microscope in order to learn the patterns and...
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Aug 34 min
A Closer Look At Stanley Myers’ Cavatina.
Popular at weddings and funerals alike, this perennial favourite has some interesting changes within its meagre 63 bars of music. Its not...
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Aug 34 min
Enharmonic Equivalent scales: An Introduction
Enharmonic equivalent scales are not to be confused with equivalent scales. An equivalent scale is a scale or mode that is built upon the...
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Aug 33 min
Dorian Alternatives: Part Two (Redux)
In part one I covered good modal substitutes for the Dorian mode. Just in case some of you misunderstand, I do not mean the Dorian...
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Aug 32 min
Cutting Heads at the Crossroads: A Metaphor For Plagiarism?
I don’t know about you, but I realised something profound years ago when watching the movie Crossroads with Ralph Macchio. The premise is...
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Jul 121 min
New group on capos
Just in case some of you are unaware, I created a group specifically on the subject of music using capos and bridges. Its public, and I...
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Jul 122 min
Is There A Text Book?
I have recently been asked this a few times either in the comments or by personal messages so I thought I would clarify and help everyone...
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Jul 122 min
Introducing The Byzantine Scale.
The Byzantine scale is better known as the Double Harmonic mode, mode V of Hungarian minor. Its formula is 1 b2 3 4 5 b6 7 and in the A...
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Jul 122 min
Dorian Alternatives : Part I (Redux)
As many of you know, the Dorian mode is played over a minor chord, or the relative bass note and contains the fundamental characteristic...
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Jul 124 min
Modulations That Have An Emotional Effect Part II: Bach’s Chaconne
The first post in this series looked at the point in the music of Bach’s double violin concerto BWV1043 where a lump in the throat...
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Jul 124 min
A Closer Look At Brouwer’s Danza Caracteristica
Before I head off back into the fathomless depths of Takemitsu’s All In Twilight, I thought I would just post an analysis on this short...
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Jul 128 min
A Tutorial On Using The Modal Method of Music (M3) Part I: Analysis
I am setting forth how to use the Modal Method for composition, improvisation and analysis and will start with the basics first, which is...
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Jul 121 min
Guitar sleuths out there!
NB: I am reposting this as it seems to have disappeared from the group. I have come across a piece of music for classical guitar by Peter...
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Jul 121 min
Peter Carr's The Moth Part II: Help Required with a difficult score
Hi everyone, I am working on uploading a score to musescore so I can share the music with everyone and also be the first to play it as it...
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Jul 125 min
A Closer Look at Bach’s Fugue BWV 1000
This fugue is standard repertoire for guitarists. A closer look shows that Bach uses a series of sequences for his sound in this piece,...
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