Black Lion Audio introduces PBR LIT – digital patchbay labelling system
Black Lion Audio Introduces PBR LIT: Digital patchbay labelling system lights up studio in style and convenience Black Lion Audio…
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A list of unusual scales
Sometimes a great way to create new and exciting sounds is to try using a scale type that you haven't used before. The only downside is that sometimes it can…
Chord Inversions
There's nothing really complicated about chord inversions. It's one of those subjects that often gets overlooked or ignored because the perception is it's too complicated but really, they are quite…
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.…
Two octave fretboard patterns for modes
Following the recent series of blog posts on modes and modal chords, this post gives you two octave patterns for all the modes rooted on the E string so that…