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Music Theory for Songwriters - Home. Outline of basic music theory - www.oscarvandillen.com. Ear Trainer. Top 50 Youtube Guitar Channels. The Top 50 Youtube Guitar Channels covers lessons, magazines, manufacturers, guitar stores, reviews, guitarists, and pretty much everything guitar centric.

Top 50 Youtube Guitar Channels

All of the channels below had reached at least 2 million total views by March of 2012. Our focus was on channels producing high quality guitar videos at regular intervals. 1. GuitarJamz.com #1 (martyzsongs) 155,460,210 views – guitar tabs 2. NextLevelGuitar.com (rockongoodpeople) 99,932,874 views – guitar lessons 3. 6. Guitar/Guitar Chords Song Library. The following is a list of notable easy to learn guitar songs from the 1950s to the present.

Guitar/Guitar Chords Song Library

It also contains links to external websites containing different informal chords to songs which represent many different authors' own interpretations of the original songs. Most of the chords on the list are relatively easy to learn, and would be a great start for novice guitar players who are interested in improving their playing abilities. The technical difficulty and skill level required to play each of the songs is defined with a star rating system: - Easy Song - Intermediate Song - Difficult Song Basic Guitar Chord Patterns You will find 5 simple major chord styles on your guitar. Also minor chord variation of those 5 basic patterns. You’ll discover that you will find chords that be seemingly missing such as for instance F chords and B chords in addition to chords with sharps or flats.

For instance) you've to utilize a barre chord. Site. The 5 Essential Major Chord Patterns basic guitar chords g. Musical Scales. Scales and emotions. See also a post about making chords from scales.

Scales and emotions

So maybe you want to write a song or an instrumental in a particular mood or style, and you’re feeling overwhelmed by all the scales. Here’s a handy guide to the commonly used scales in Western pop, rock, jazz, blues and so on. Click each image to play the scale right in your browser with the aQWERTYon. These scales have a major third (E in the key of C), which makes them feel happy or bright. Major scale Happy; can be majestic or sentimental when slow. Mixolydian mode Bluesy, rock; can also be exotic/modal. Lydian mode Ethereal, dreamy, futuristic. Lydian dominant mode Also known as the overtone scale or acoustic scale, because it is close to the first seven pitches in the natural overtone series.

Phrygian dominant mode. The interactive circle of fifths. Harmony Explained: Progress Towards A Scientific Theory of Music. The Major Scale, The Standard Chord Dictionary, and The Difference of Feeling Between The Major and Minor Triads Explained from the First Principles of Physics and Computation; The Theory of Helmholtz Shown To Be Incomplete and The Theory of Terhardt and Some Others Considered Daniel Shawcross Wilkerson Begun 23 September 2006; this version 19 February 2012.

Harmony Explained: Progress Towards A Scientific Theory of Music

Abstract and Introduction Most music theory books are like medieval medical textbooks: they contain unjustified superstition, non-reasoning, and funny symbols glorified by Latin phrases. How does music, in particular harmony, actually work, presented as a real, scientific theory of music? In particular we derive from first principles of Physics and Computation the following three fundamental phenomena of music: the Major Scale, the Standard Chord Dictionary, and the difference in feeling between the Major and Minor Triads. Table of Contents People push different keys on a piano; some combinations and patterns sound good; others do not. Sight Reading Practice - Piano Music Sight-Reading Practice. Piano Music Sight-Reading Practice IntroductionThis free online electronic flashcard (flash card) trains you to instantly read notes written in standard musical notation on a grand staff and play the corresponding keys on a piano (or other musical keyboard) correctly, the first time, without practice or rehearsal.

Sight Reading Practice - Piano Music Sight-Reading Practice

This skill is known as "sight reading . " Unlike other sight-reading practice programs, you don't need to purchase, download, or install software. You can use our online sight-reading practice software for free without registering or disclosing any personal information. Since our sight-reading practice program runs on our server instead of your computer, you can practice any time from any browser with internet access. A few minutes a day with this training exercise will greatly improve your piano music sight reading skills. Use this drill as a daily exercise to improve your sight reading. See our help page for more information about sight reading and how to use this site.

Piano room: chords and scales. Interactive Circle of Fifths. 1.) Click on a key name (C,D, Ab, G# etc…) to spin the circle until that key is at the top. The name in the red oval should always be the key you are interested in so make sure it is at the top. You are now working in that MAJOR key. 2.) Once the key you are interested in is at the top, the following statements are true: