How To Navigate My Patreon (and have more fun learning)
In this stream I talked about how I want you to be a rebel and a "bad student."
I'm not grading your homework, I'm just trying to help you understand music theory and how it applies to guitar and to actually making music!
In this lesson I give you permission to skip ahead and learn about the broader context of music theory so that when you go back to the previous lessons they will actually make more sense. Do things out of order - search for the fun stuff to learn, then go back and learn the basics with more understanding.
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CAGED Soloing General Concepts
In this lesson we discussed general concepts around CAGED Soloing with the following concepts:
• Why the pentatonic scale is the best starting point (referring to modes, etc)
• How soloing over chord tones works
• How CAGED System makes the Chords in a Key transposable
• How chord progressions are absolutely fundamental to soloing over chord tones
Join me for a live lesson every Tuesday at 4PM from now on! If you can’t make it, that’s ok! You can always watch later. If you click the “YouTube” logo on the video, you’ll be able to watch the livestream on YouTube and that’s where you’ll have access to the live chat. Feel free to ask questions in the comments below or in the live chat, but keep in mind I’ll typically save all the questions for the end of the lesson.
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Making A Cover Song Interesting
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What Is Counterpoint?
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Secondary Dominants in Christmas Music
In this lesson I explored the use of secondary dominants in a few well known Christmas songs.
Then I had a little fun recording some four part harmony on O Come All Ye Faithful
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What Does it Look Like to Prepare for a Show?
We'll talk about a checklist for your first show, mindset, gear, what songs to plan, how much to prepare, stuff like that.
Then I'll take questions!
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Refining an Idea
Bringing a song from the creation stage, through the editing/arrangement stage, and into the finalizing stage.
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How to Harmonize a Melody
This lesson was all about how to harmonize a melody. If you'd like to learn how to write a melody, check out my Melody Making Course.
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Fun with Pedals
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Melody Making Magic
We're going to explore some cool melody making concepts using the attached PDF.
This would be a great lesson to come back to after watching my Melody Making series
If you’re watching later and you still have questions, feel free to comment below or ask on the next Office Hours, every Thursday at 10am Pacific.
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Spooky Music
In this lesson we discuss a symmetrical scale consisting of R w 2 h 3 w 4 h 5 w 6 h 7 w 8 h R - resulting in two nested fully diminished chords. It creates an eerie tonality with no home.
Then we dive into the whole tone scale, frequently used in dream sequences in movies and TV, and on shoes like the Twilight Zone and plenty of others. It gives you augmented chords to play with.
Chord Clusters!
I'll be talking about chord clusters, which is just a fun way to think about playing all the chords in a key within the space of just a few frets. I'll give you a sense of the concept, why its important/useful/fun, and a couple ways to practice and use the concept.
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Fun with Roman Numerals!
This week we're talking Roman Numerals - specifically how to think about crafting chord progressions, bass lines, and melodies with loose chords in mind instead of very specific chords. It's amazing how much freedom there is within the Roman Numeral system with this mindset.
If you can't make it live, you can always watch later!
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Writing Complementary Chord Progressions
This is a little lesson about how I approach writing chord progressions that go together. I talk about the descriptive method, what to look out for tonally, rhythmically, and dynamically. I put my own methods to the test in a logic pro project and goof around too much with keyboard bass.
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