Blues Guitar Unleashed Blog There’s this one particular double stop that lies between boxes 1 and 2 of the pentatonic/blues scale… I hear this sound SO much, and I use it all the time, but I’m not sure I’ve made a big enough deal about it. So today, we’ll make a big deal about it … Continue reading This Double Stop Is The Blues
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips Learning how to balance your hands on the piano is an important skill to develop. Developing solid and consistent control over your tone, dynamics, and articulation is a skill that is not built overnight. It takes months and years of practice to build a strong sound on … Continue reading It’s all in the hands: balance, dynamics, and tone
Blues Guitar Unleashed Blog As you’ve probably noticed, I’m a big fan of looper pedals… Back in the old days, I literally used to sit with a cassette deck and play a groove into it for several minutes, then rewind the tape and practice soloing over it… With a looper I can be jamming in … Continue reading Blues Grooves For Your Looper
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips C minor chords are complex, sad, and emotional chords, if you know how to use them correctly. This article teaches you how to invert your c minor chords, so you can play them all over the keyboard. Knowing how to take a C minor chord from its … Continue reading C minor chord: inversions explained
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips The C major chord is often the first chord that anyone learns how to play on the piano. This is of course because the key of C major has no sharps and no flats, allowing for anyone to be able to sit down and merely avoid playing … Continue reading Understanding the C major chord: Inversions and fingerings
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips Learning chords is the first step to truly understanding how to play the piano, and approaching different types of music as a pianist. With pure understanding and chord knowledge, the entire world of music playing and music making will open as you learn your different major chords, … Continue reading Learning the G major chord on piano
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips Knowing how to play every type of chord is an important part of learning how to play the piano well, because you will often see song chords with just written out barre chords for piano, and for a different instrument, where you will be expected to play … Continue reading Learning how to play the B minor chord on piano
Blues Guitar Unleashed Blog When I was learning to solo, there were a lot of licks and solos that I either couldn’t play, or couldn’t figure out by ear (remember, this was before the internet and TABs everywhere…) But through the process of playing with bands and having to figure out something to play, I … Continue reading A Clapton Blueprint
GUITARHABITS Last Updated on July 26, 2022 by Klaus Crow Hi folks, I hope you have a beautiful summer! It’s a great time to play guitar in the backyard, on the beach or on vacation. There’s always a time and place to practice. Today we’re going to learn two beautiful blues licks in the key … Continue reading 2 Beautiful Blues Licks for Beginners and Intermediate
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips Memorizing music as a pianist is an important skill to develop. It is extremely easy in our modern world to simply access information via phone or computer and retain very little. Memorizing helps us to build a base of knowledge that we can use and extrapolate to … Continue reading How to memorize music as a pianist
