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 […]
Read More Two ‘Black’…KeysThis week’s homework is simple…begin to study chords that are important to you. Do you like the sound of an A Chord? The sound of an A Chord may remind you of the color yellow, in the case of one student’s aural observation. We talked about the B Chord on The CMajor Radio Show yesterday. […]
Read More Important Chords…This week’s homework is all about using your creativity. When it comes to chords, I’ve seen many of my students use chord-playing creatively to solve their problems. Seriously?!–seriously. It’s hard to believe, but it’s true. Some of my students want and need to play “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen to feel better about their lives during […]
Read More Creative Chord-PlayingIt’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 […]
Read More Guesswork…Using Chord ChartsOn today’s CMajor Radio Show…we talked about major scales. As promised, I’m posting some additional examples of scales for you to practice. I’m encouraging listeners to begin to think about how the notes of these scales appear on a staff. Here are the names of some more scales for you to consider practicing: A major […]
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