A Fun Ear Training Exercise
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.
Memorizing Triads And Fourths
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.
Chromatic Exercise
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).
It’s been a while, so let’s do one this week. Due on Sunday, and I’ll actually try to play.
For this round, I want you to bust out your nastiest, weirdest, sweetest, coolest, freakiest, awesomest, messiest tone tricks you can. Doesn’t matter what kind of music, just get in there and make your guitar sound freaking awesome.