Music theory is intimidating for a lot of new players but that’s usually down to misconceptions. Although it can appear arcane, stuffy and overly formalised…
Okay then. First things first. Music, as you already know I’m sure, is made up of playing a series of notes. Notes organised together in…
Last time we looked at the chromatic scale and learned that this scale contains all the notes available. Here’s the piano keyboard again for reference.…
Last time we defined the major scale and discussed how it’s built. Now we’re going to add another way of thinking about and referring to…
In previous posts we’ve looked at the major scale and how it’s built out of notes in the chromatic scale. We’ve also seen that we…
So far we’ve been looking at playing the major scale. We’ve been playing in the key of C on a C harmonica – exactly what…
The last post in this series was an enormous information dump. This time we’re going to play a little and experience the difference between the…
In the last two posts on position playing we’ve looked at some of the positions we can play in. We examined the modes that are…
A chord is simply a certain number of notes played at the same time. Guitar players do this by strumming, piano players hold down several…
In the last post we looked at how to build a chord and how we can refer to them based on their scale degrees. We…