Blues Guitar Unleashed Blog One of the cool things about using simple chord progressions that aren’t in the blues format, is that you can chase each major chord with a major pentatonic scale… And for my money, one of my all time favorite major pentatonic shapes is my 3+2 pattern… I use it all the … Continue reading Fills For The Noodle Machine
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips Oftentimes music can express those things that we as humans can not say. Even more often when musicians write music, they will try and express something that doesn’t quite exist in the real world – a frightening image, a haunting chill, or a difficult memory or unrequited … Continue reading The harmonic minor scale: an extensive guide
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips You have just bought your first digital piano. Congratulations! Having an instrument of your own that you can practice on is a great decision. Relying on borrowed instruments or your computer keyboard to learn the piano is not an ideal situation. There are many different varieties of … Continue reading Setting up your new digital piano
Blues Guitar Unleashed Blog This is one of those little mindshifts that was so helpful to me as a young man growing up learning to solo through chord changes… We usually learn the pentatonic and blues scale boxes via a “root on the 6th string” approach… And then one day I started seeing them from … Continue reading Pentatonics From A 5th String Root
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips Reading two clefs simultaneously is one of the most unique musical challenges available and the piano is virtually the only instrument that requires us to do so. When you get in the zone of reading two clefs at the same time, you enter a true flow state. … Continue reading Learning to read two clefs at once!
Blues Guitar Unleashed Blog I talk about counting ALL the time… and I’m well aware of that… However, I’ll be the first to admit that there are some times, particularly in a slow blues, where counting is pretty tough – if not impossible. See Blues Guitar Unleashed solo #4 as an example When that happens, … Continue reading Count The Uncountable
GUITARHABITS Last Updated on May 3, 2022 by Klaus Crow Hi Folks, today we have some Blues From the Woods. A while ago I was on holiday with my family and we went the to Veluwe National Park. It’s the largest forest area in The Netherlands. While I was enjoying my coffee, relaxing on the … Continue reading Blues From the Woods | Cool Nifty 12 Bar Blues
Blues Guitar Unleashed Blog While this isn’t the first time I’ve talked about this type of format for an acoustic blues… This is the first time I’ve approached it using basically just one or two tiny pieces of a lick and creating 4 licks from those pieces. In addition, I added a turnaround (though I … Continue reading Let’s Build A Blues
GUITARHABITS Last Updated on April 26, 2022 by Klaus Crow A Marvelous Major Pentatonic Blues Country Lick is heading your way. This blues country, country blues guitar lick is a great one for intermediate and beginner players, because you can split it up into 2 licks and play it slow and fast. Either way it … Continue reading Marvelous Major Pentatonic Blues Country Lick
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips Finger positions are the key to learning to play the piano quickly and well. They allow you to learn difficult music quickly, avoid injury, and master playing fast and at tempos and key signatures that you could never imagine before. Here we cover many techniques to learn … Continue reading How to harness the power of piano finger positions
