A New Group.
For those of you that are into playing with capos, spider capos and passarelle bridges you will be pleased to hear that I have just...
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Jul 123 min
The Modal World of Takemitsu’s All In Twilight: Part II
Continuing this series I am now looking at the second of four movements following the first movement covered in the previous post. Much...
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Jul 123 min
A Messiaenic Complex: The Modes of Messiaen Part II
The whole tone scale has a symmetrical pattern of notes separated by a tone, this is called Mode I of limited transposition by Messiaen,...
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Jul 121 min
Hi Ho Silver Lining
I have an interesting experience to relate to you that happened to me last week. After a gig had finished, I was packing up and the...
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Jul 126 min
The Modal World of Takemitsu’s All In Twilight: Part I
In this series my focus is on the four movement piece from 1989 by Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu. By now you are familiar with my...
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Jul 123 min
A Messiaenic Complex: The Modes of Messiaen Part I
In this first post of the series I shall focus on Messiaen’s Mode III. Its formula is as follows: 1 2 b3 3 #4 5 b6 b7 7 And in C it is: C...
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Jul 122 min
The Sound of Geometry: Part I – The Fundamentals of 2, 3 and √2
I think its time to discuss the nuts of bolts of music, so here I am focusing on the frequency of A at 432 Hz and how we arrive at such a...
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Jul 123 min
Music As The Living Embodiment of A Meritocracy
This is the universal rule in life and music is no exception: Everybody sucks at everything at first. Now, we can see the development of...
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Jul 123 min
Five ways to modulate to the Supertonic
(I prefer to use Five ways to modulate to the 2nd degree minor key but Supertonic has a catchier title and moreover, I think being aware...
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Jul 121 min
Developing perfect pitch: An accidental experiment
Here is an interesting way of developing perfect pitch which I have discovered by accident. I have been practising improvising over...
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Jul 125 min
The Modal World of Walton’s Bagatelles: Part V
In this final instalment in this series I am looking at the first movement, the allegro. There are many points of interest including wild...
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Jul 126 min
The Modal World of William Walton’s Bagatelles Part IV
I am continuing this series with eagerness focusing on the fifth movement marked Con Slancio. This follows the previous posts that...
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Jul 125 min
The Modal World of Brouwer’s El Decameron Negro Part III: Ballade … Amoureuse
This is the third and final instalment in this series and will look at the final movement of Brouwer’s work published in 1983. It is far...
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May 111 min
Duets for guitar and ukulele part I
Right, this group is now active, welcome to all and I am going to start by posting a duet I have arranged with my partner in crime Tony...
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May 112 min
Alternative scales I: Neapolitan Major and Melodic over Major
In this series of posts I will be discussing the merits of substituting one or more scales for another when soloing. I am using the...
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May 112 min
Identifying Weak Points In Your Fretboard Knowledge Whilst Becoming Well-Read
I thought I would share with my readers a technique that I often employ, although only with the more advanced of my students, that really...
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May 113 min
The Modal World of Brouwer’s El Decameron Negro Part II: The Flight of the Lovers
The focus of this instalment is the second movement of EDC. It’s a great study in mimicking the properties of an echo and needs some...
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May 113 min
The Modal World of Brouwer’s Black Decameron Part I: The Warrior’s Harp
In the first of this series I am analysing the modal approach that Brouwer takes in his three movement piece. As mentioned in my...
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May 113 min
Takemitsu’s influence on Brouwer’s La Harpe du Guerrier
Recently, I started an analysis of El Decameron Negro by Brouwer and within half a page of work I noticed the similarity with Takemitsu’s...
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May 113 min
Pitch Axis theory and the Modal Method I: The simple concept
For those of you unaware of the details of pitch axis theory, the idea is basically to connect scales or their modes via an unchanging,...
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