How, exactly, do you unexpectedly release an album?
That's a very good question. I can't deny that however I try to answer, it sounds kind of ridiculous. I've been meaning to create some albums of older material to…
New approaches, new perspectives (part 2)
The debut launch of #II3 on Tracy's EOP show #II3 on Bandcamp Ok, So I missed the boat for #II2. But the experience was a very positive one. Which is…
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…
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.…