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Round 26 The Ambient Porno Funk Revival Project |
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Posted by Zed Shaw | 2010-04-01 02:41:42.143126 Being rather new at studying guitar I definitely needed to work on my ear quite a lot. In fact, ear training and rhythm are the two hardest things for me. In order to work on my ear training I've been doing a few fun exercises lately that focus on the more "functional" method of hearing notes. The exercise I've been doing for about 2 months now has really given me surprising results so I thought I'd share. Posted by Zed Shaw | 2010-03-25 20:19:23.943606 This shed post is a simple mnemonic trick for memorizing two very important parts of music theory. First is the "Cycle of 4ths" and second is the triads that make up all major chords. Memorizing these will help with figuring out the notes in a chord, chord changes, and many other elements of harmony. Posted by Ahsanul Haque | 2010-02-04 00:15:59.052513 Here's a little chromatic exercise to free up your fingers. Included media contain the tab and a MIDI sample. It has a slight Flight of the Bumblebee feel to it when you play it fast enough(at around 200 BPM). |
Posted by Zed Shaw | 2009-12-27 00:29:54.889463 This is a quick post to tell everyone about some new site updates: Posted by Zed Shaw | 2009-12-07 03:27:00.797090 Today I was determined to get out replies to comments and password reset. Do or die I was going to finish those two damn features. Posted by Zed Shaw | 2009-11-28 20:05:02.488108 Alright party people, Fret War is now running on a real PostgreSQL database so we should be able to handle multiple users better and have more stable deployments. |
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There hasn’t been a round in a long time, not since I got really busy doing stuff. Let’s do a round with the theme “Ambient Porno Funk”. What’s that you ask?
Well first, there’s Ambient. I’m sure you run into Ambient all the time when you go into a lame restaurant with that puts Avocado on everything and calls it “upscale”. There’s a whole categorization mechanism for this kind of music, with Ambient being similar to Trip-Hop but different from Electronica and not quite the same as…basically, it’s slow mesmerizing ambient music. Go search for it on Youtube and you’ll run into it’s connection with meditation and LSD. Or rather, the only way to like Ambient is to do LSD and meditate to it.