CONTEMPORARY SOUNDS FOR THE PEDAL STEEL As I have progressed writing my book “Contemporary Sounds for the Pedal Steel” I…
ATTACK, DECAY, SUSTAIN, RELEASE As an advancing musician, the tones you create are probably one of your greatest concerns, but…
This first sentence is probably the most important thing to remember: Context is everything. I will come back to this…
Since every chord progression, whether Major or Minor, uses a V7 dominant chord to return to it’s root, or home…
A turnaround is a short chord progression of two to four bars that can serve as an introduction, an ending,…
If you’ve studied many music instruction books you may have read the admonition after a musical example: “Practice this in…
Quartal chords, with their open, ambiguous sound, are great for comping behind a soloist or melody line. In this Blues…
Chords based on stacks of fourths instead of traditional triad-based harmony have been a staple of jazz players since the…
The E9th tuning that we know today offers many possibilities for harmonies based on the simple Major and minor chord…
Here’s a nice, usable, bluesy sounding lick on E9 that can work over the basic changes to a blues or…
PENTATONIC APPLICATIONS Any five note scale can be called a pentatonic scale, but the one that gets the most use…