The Music Challenge aka Creating Tracks from Samples
Ok, so I just so happened to see a competition to create a song using only six provided samples by 13lfo on twitter. That grabbed my attention, I did the…
Whole Tone Scales
I'm going to start by saying that whole tone scales are unlike any other discussed so far. They are made up solely of whole tone intervals which results in 6…
An Improvisation Exercise
So far we've covered a lot of ground with music theory covering Keys, chords, modes and pentatonic scales. This post pulls together a number of these ideas into an improvisation…
Pentatonic Scales
As an alternative to modes, pentatonic scales are very commonly used for soloing. The definition is often somewhat overcomplicated, pentatonic basically means 'five tones' so these are 5 note scales.…