I was reading the thread titled "Not a waste of time for guitarists." It seems to be a good thing IMO. I was thinking that a section devoted to Music Theory, Techniques, and general instrument playing is in order.
No bullshit, no drama, just topics directly related to mastering instruments. We disagree about a lot of stuff on this site. However, music theory and related topics are things that pertain to all of us.
PLEASE KEEP THIS THREAD GOING. If enough people show interest and this post hangs on long enough, the administrator could make the "Wood Shed" section of rockpage that would be a great benefit to us all.
Lets roll with the idea?
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I'd like to see a forum devoted strictly to the discussion of beans, the varieties of beans available to bean consumers throughout North America, the bean importing industry and the impact of the bean on this 21st century society we live in.
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That's what she said.
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Technically, that would be C C# D D# E F F# G G# A A# B C, since you can't have both flats and sharps in the same key signature.MeYatch wrote:
"The chromatic scale goes C C# D Eb E F F# G G# A Bb B C!!!!"
"He's the electric horseman, you better back off!" - old sKool making a reference to the culturally relevant 1979 film.
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At the beginning of every show, we do one of those cliche intros with a lot of drum fills and penatonic wank (aptly called "Big Intro). Whenever old sKool uses his guitar that his tunes down to C#, I'll often try to trip him up by asking if we're going to play this is Db. *LOL*
"He's the electric horseman, you better back off!" - old sKool making a reference to the culturally relevant 1979 film.
Hell yes, I am the King of Cheese ...MeYatch wrote:does rob yell "(insert bar name) ARE YOU READY TO RAWK?!?!?" in a high pitched screech?bassist_25 wrote:At the beginning of every show, we do one of those cliche intros with a lot of drum fills and penatonic wank (aptly called "Big Intro)
thats what I would do......
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That's what she said.
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Wow, is that place still open?
Guess this is far from the thread that was started.
It is certainly good to know (Knowledge is rarely a bad thing). I guess one way to approach it is to find scales and see how they work on tunes you're already doing.
For example, I love the sound of a mid-Eastern feel under rock stuff. From
theory, when I hear it, I know there's a good chance it's in Phrygian. That
being said, I haven't sat and practiced scales since the late 80s. Never liked doing it or felt that it helped me so much from a musicality sense and,
for me personally, playing songs was more beneficial than scales.
But, for some I have no doubt the opposite could be true, for others an in
between, etc.
I learned jazz chords then threw them into rock stuff (Even covers), then some standards, then mucked around with soloing over "odd" changes,
using 9s, 11s, etc. (Andy Summers from The Police was a master of this in
rock context).
Something that I think helped me a lot was playing over stuff it was unlikely I'd ever play. Prior to family-life, I'd get up in the morning, play
along with every commerical, every TV show theme, every song on whatever music channel, etc.
Develops the ear and since COMMERCIALS are always coming and going, you have an endless set of new stuff that's cycling through.
Recently I was sitting there changing strings and some show was on in the
background (Whatever has Howie Mandel hosting). As I was tuning up I caught myself playing with the music as the show was coming back from commercial break.
Always thought doing session stuff would be an excellent job.
Grab your girlfriend/boyfriend/little sister's, parent's whomever's CDs of
things you KNOW you would normally listen and play along. Can help a lot.
I'm sure the poor sods who have to suffer through playing on a Celine Dion
album are top-notch players who have some worthwhile to learn stuff.
Dang, this drifted, didn't it? Well, gotta go by some paint for the living room. Happy Sat.
Wow, is that place still open?
Guess this is far from the thread that was started.
It is certainly good to know (Knowledge is rarely a bad thing). I guess one way to approach it is to find scales and see how they work on tunes you're already doing.
For example, I love the sound of a mid-Eastern feel under rock stuff. From
theory, when I hear it, I know there's a good chance it's in Phrygian. That
being said, I haven't sat and practiced scales since the late 80s. Never liked doing it or felt that it helped me so much from a musicality sense and,
for me personally, playing songs was more beneficial than scales.
But, for some I have no doubt the opposite could be true, for others an in
between, etc.
I learned jazz chords then threw them into rock stuff (Even covers), then some standards, then mucked around with soloing over "odd" changes,
using 9s, 11s, etc. (Andy Summers from The Police was a master of this in
rock context).
Something that I think helped me a lot was playing over stuff it was unlikely I'd ever play. Prior to family-life, I'd get up in the morning, play
along with every commerical, every TV show theme, every song on whatever music channel, etc.
Develops the ear and since COMMERCIALS are always coming and going, you have an endless set of new stuff that's cycling through.
Recently I was sitting there changing strings and some show was on in the
background (Whatever has Howie Mandel hosting). As I was tuning up I caught myself playing with the music as the show was coming back from commercial break.
Always thought doing session stuff would be an excellent job.
Grab your girlfriend/boyfriend/little sister's, parent's whomever's CDs of
things you KNOW you would normally listen and play along. Can help a lot.
I'm sure the poor sods who have to suffer through playing on a Celine Dion
album are top-notch players who have some worthwhile to learn stuff.
Dang, this drifted, didn't it? Well, gotta go by some paint for the living room. Happy Sat.
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