Blues Guitar Unleashed Blog This is probably time to grab some coffee and sit back and watch, first… I’ve been working on a difficult solo, and I wanted to show you step-by-step how I take it apart to learn it. Obviously, if this is a difficult lick for me, it might be near impossible for … Continue reading My Process For Learning Difficult Licks
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips The whole tone scale is a surreal and enigmatic sound that often feels ambiguous and unanchored. The scale is perfect for creating dream-like passages and is commonly found in the work of Impressionistic composers like Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. However, examples of the scale date back … Continue reading Dreaming with the whole tone scale
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips The more you practice piano, the faster you will improve. That is a basic fact of piano playing that we all must deal with. However, we do not always have access to the piano, even when we want to practice. Fortunately, it is possible to practice music … Continue reading Strategies to practice music away from a piano
Blues Guitar Unleashed Blog I’m a huge Angus Young fan… he was, arguably, my first guitar hero way back in the late 1970s… And what I’ve come to learn as I’ve gotten more into the blues and its history, is that Angus had some great blues moves that apply as much to classic rock as … Continue reading Angus Young’s “Turn” Around The Blue Note
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips The first thing any good piano teacher will talk about is how to sit correctly at the piano. This is because it’s extremely easy to get it wrong at first and get into a bad habit. Correct posture, learning how to sit at the piano bench will … Continue reading A beginner’s guide to perfect piano posture
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips The diminished scale, or octatonic scale, is an enigmatic and distinct scale that offers a great deal of melodic and harmonic depth and possibility. There are examples of the diminished scale in European classical music dating back to the time of Bach and also in various folk … Continue reading Explore the daring diminished scales
Blues Guitar Unleashed Blog Well, maybe we’re doing Funk Guitar Unleashed today Seriously, though, this strumming idea comes up in both funky styles of blues, and straight up, James Brown style funk guitar… It even comes up in rock/pop music for songs like, “Long Train Running,” by the Doobie Brothers. But… it’s a strumming pattern … Continue reading The Funky Blues Strum Pattern You Might Be Playing Wrong
GUITARHABITS Last Updated on May 23, 2022 by Klaus Crow Blues licks across the neck gives you the freedom to play in wider area on the fretboard and gives you the feeling you are really soloing. It’s also one great lick that can be divided into smaller blues licks that can lead to new fresh … Continue reading Blues Lick Across the Neck – Key of E
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips The melodic minor scale is a variation on the natural minor scale that emerged primarily because of its melodic functionality, as opposed to its cousin, the harmonic minor scale, which developed based on its harmonic functions. In European classical music, the scale follows one interval pattern ascending … Continue reading Understanding the melodic minor scale
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips Musicians are often practicing groups of notes played one at a time in order, on their instruments. This is a very common way to develop speed and skill, hand independence and practice playing at slow or fast tempos. These notes musicians are often practicing are called Scales, … Continue reading Understanding all seven diatonic scales
