Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips Join in the fun and celebration of World Music Day this month with Skoove. Music is a wonderful and beautiful force and what better way to celebrate the power of music than with an all-day celebration around the Summer solstice! Learn more about this wonderful day, some … Continue reading Join in the fun of World Music Day
GUITARHABITS Last Updated on June 12, 2022 by Klaus Crow Hi Folks, I hope you’re in for a nice chord melody. Take your guitar out of the stand, grab a pick and get ready for a beautiful treat. Video Lesson Chord Melody Guitar | C F G Am Dm | In today’s lesson we are … Continue reading Chord Melody Guitar
GUITARHABITS Last Updated on June 11, 2022 by Klaus Crow Today we’re going to combine chords and melody using a G – C – D ( I – IV – V ) chord progression. This is a fun one that you’ll enjoy practicing. See the video lesson and Tabs below. Video Lesson Combining Chords with Melody You … Continue reading Combine Chords with Melody
Blues Guitar Unleashed Blog I know I don’t typically do “song lessons,” but this one is a great demonstration of a simple idea in the solo that gets repeated with great effect. And, of course, we’ll go over some of the other sections as well to be complete Read More This article is from an … Continue reading ZZ Top’s “I Thank You”
Blues Guitar Unleashed Blog This is probably time to grab some coffee and sit back and watch, first… I’ve been working on a difficult solo, and I wanted to show you step-by-step how I take it apart to learn it. Obviously, if this is a difficult lick for me, it might be near impossible for … Continue reading My Process For Learning Difficult Licks
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips The whole tone scale is a surreal and enigmatic sound that often feels ambiguous and unanchored. The scale is perfect for creating dream-like passages and is commonly found in the work of Impressionistic composers like Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. However, examples of the scale date back … Continue reading Dreaming with the whole tone scale
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips The more you practice piano, the faster you will improve. That is a basic fact of piano playing that we all must deal with. However, we do not always have access to the piano, even when we want to practice. Fortunately, it is possible to practice music … Continue reading Strategies to practice music away from a piano
Blues Guitar Unleashed Blog I’m a huge Angus Young fan… he was, arguably, my first guitar hero way back in the late 1970s… And what I’ve come to learn as I’ve gotten more into the blues and its history, is that Angus had some great blues moves that apply as much to classic rock as … Continue reading Angus Young’s “Turn” Around The Blue Note
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips The first thing any good piano teacher will talk about is how to sit correctly at the piano. This is because it’s extremely easy to get it wrong at first and get into a bad habit. Correct posture, learning how to sit at the piano bench will … Continue reading A beginner’s guide to perfect piano posture
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips The diminished scale, or octatonic scale, is an enigmatic and distinct scale that offers a great deal of melodic and harmonic depth and possibility. There are examples of the diminished scale in European classical music dating back to the time of Bach and also in various folk … Continue reading Explore the daring diminished scales
