Category: Guitar Teacher
My choir’s recent festival hall gig
I am musical director of a lovely local choir in East Dulwich. We are non-audition and are singing for fun.. Anyone can apply to join us, via… Read more “My choir’s recent festival hall gig”
how to work out all twelve scales just knowing one…
Hello folks a fun little test for you all
This is called the cycle of fourths, and it is the most common thing that will happen to you as the music you are playing changes from one passage to another. It’s a bit tricky to understand at first but persevere as it really does take a lot of the unnecessary mystery and nonsense out of how music works.
Dan Maitland 2014
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most useful scales for guitar
major and pentatonic scales for guitar
These are for guitarists who are a bit past beginner, and are perhaps thinking about moving into a career as a rock god. They may look a little bit tricky but they aren’t. Just follow the numbers and bear in mind that the tab works upwards from fat to thin (slightly counterintuitive).. ie number 6 is the fattest string.
A good follow up to my chromatic finger work out warm up already demonstrated on this site.
Have fun
Dan
new song from my student. Dan
HI. Dan is a Polish apprentice Rock God to be and penned this marvellous piece during our sessions. I helped him with his lyric translation, song structure… Read more “new song from my student. Dan”
My own guitar warm up routine
It suddenly occurred to me that singers and sax players, spend the beginning of their sessions warming up. Guitarist don’t seem to do this ( I certainly… Read more “My own guitar warm up routine”
Sax, music and me..
I startd playing sax in the 80s, I was singing in a pop band and all the others had sax players so I thought I’d have a… Read more “Sax, music and me..”
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