In this article we’ll have a look at a simple yet very effective way to learn all the notes on a guitar fretboard. This is very important for every guitarist to know, in order to not get lost while playing both chord progressions and solos.
Tag: Music
0 Learning how to find the note on the guitar fretboard
0 The 10 Things Every Guitarist Should Know to play enjoyable solos
In this post we’ll have a look at the “minimal” amount of skills necessary to actually being able to play enjoyable guitar solos.
0 What is the difference between Mic (microphone), Instrument, Line and Speaker signals?
In this post we’ll have a look at the 4 types of audio signals used in sound engineering and in the audio world. It’s a recommended reading for both apprentice-musicians and apprentice audio engineers.
0 Steady Pitch – Desert Lagoon
Here is another track from Steady Pitch titled “Desert Lagoon”, a beautiful instrumental Rock Blues ballad which, after exploring the classics of rock-blues with some virtuoso guitars on top, evolves into something between Fusion Progressive Rock, check it out!
0 Bleeding Romance
This is a full track for Obsidian Key Project, this track is a 9:00 minutes Progressive Rock Metal song inspired by Bram Stoker Dracula book, more info about the track here: https://www.obsidiankey.com/news/82-new-promo-song-released-bleeding-romance enjoy!
P.S. This track is available for download at: http://prog-sphere.bandcamp.com/track/obsidian-key-bleeding-romance
0 Empire of Madness (Snippet)
This is a snippet of a track for Obsidian Key Project, the full track is a 8:00 minutes Prog Metal track very rich of different elements from shredding to more classic Prog Rock, to great changes and groove, it’ll be available on Obsidian Key forthcoming album titled “LOUD!”. Enjoy!
0 Goofy Blues
One of my blues tracks, it’s an instrumental Rock Blues track where I am playing Guitars (of course! lol), Bass and drums.
Enjoy!
1 What is Music? (Part 2)
In the previous part we had an introduction to what music is and how our brain searches for patterns to understand it. In this second part we start to explore in more details all the rules that allow musicians to create these patterns.
0 What is Music? (Part 1)
This is an “evergreen” question which I keep hearing around and reading about on music related forums and websites, so here is my modest contribution trying to answer such a complex question… … Continue Reading
1 What are fundamental characteristics of Progressive Rock?
Often while chatting with friends and students, questions about “what is exactly” or “what are fundamental characteristics” of Progressive Rock compositions comes up.
What I noticed is that many people think that the fundamental characteristics are just presence of Spare Time Signatures (or Odd Time Signatures) and a keyboard player who can play solos… Honestly I find this a wrong definition and also very reductive, so here is some (and I repeat SOME) of the “must have” in order to define a track Progressive Rock or Progressive Metal. With that said remember that music is ART, so it is CREATIVITY mostly and therefore rules are made to be followed and to be broken (when you’ve learned them really well and you became capable of mastering them!).
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