Two ‘Black’…Keys

We hope you’re having a nice Mother’s Day so far. The weather here in New York City is magnificently sunny! That’s after a couple of days of confusing temperatures and precipitation–snow?! huh?! You’ve got to be kidding me. Lol!–Anyway, we had fun yesterday on the podcast talking about ways to imagine the group of two […]

OWN NOTATION SYSTEM

It’s Monday!–We’re getting this fun music exercise to you a day later than normal. Hang in there and we hope to see you again soon. Take care. For this week’s fun music exercise, try coming up with your own notation system. You may use stickers, symbols, color, letters and numbers, etc. Have fun!—That’s the only […]

Guesswork…Using Chord Charts

It’s guesswork/homework time again…but this time you may use your chord charts. In yesterday’s episode, we talked about chording the notes of a scale. If you play triads on the 1st, 4th & 5th degrees of a scale, we call that playing tonic, subdominant and dominant chords. If you play single notes beginning on the […]