Blues Guitar Unleashed Blog Well, maybe we’re doing Funk Guitar Unleashed today Seriously, though, this strumming idea comes up in both funky styles of blues, and straight up, James Brown style funk guitar… It even comes up in rock/pop music for songs like, “Long Train Running,” by the Doobie Brothers. But… it’s a strumming pattern … Continue reading The Funky Blues Strum Pattern You Might Be Playing Wrong
GUITARHABITS Last Updated on May 23, 2022 by Klaus Crow Blues licks across the neck gives you the freedom to play in wider area on the fretboard and gives you the feeling you are really soloing. It’s also one great lick that can be divided into smaller blues licks that can lead to new fresh … Continue reading Blues Lick Across the Neck – Key of E
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips The melodic minor scale is a variation on the natural minor scale that emerged primarily because of its melodic functionality, as opposed to its cousin, the harmonic minor scale, which developed based on its harmonic functions. In European classical music, the scale follows one interval pattern ascending … Continue reading Understanding the melodic minor scale
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips Musicians are often practicing groups of notes played one at a time in order, on their instruments. This is a very common way to develop speed and skill, hand independence and practice playing at slow or fast tempos. These notes musicians are often practicing are called Scales, … Continue reading Understanding all seven diatonic scales
Blues Guitar Unleashed Blog One of the cool things about using simple chord progressions that aren’t in the blues format, is that you can chase each major chord with a major pentatonic scale… And for my money, one of my all time favorite major pentatonic shapes is my 3+2 pattern… I use it all the … Continue reading Fills For The Noodle Machine
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips Oftentimes music can express those things that we as humans can not say. Even more often when musicians write music, they will try and express something that doesn’t quite exist in the real world – a frightening image, a haunting chill, or a difficult memory or unrequited … Continue reading The harmonic minor scale: an extensive guide
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips You have just bought your first digital piano. Congratulations! Having an instrument of your own that you can practice on is a great decision. Relying on borrowed instruments or your computer keyboard to learn the piano is not an ideal situation. There are many different varieties of … Continue reading Setting up your new digital piano
Blues Guitar Unleashed Blog This is one of those little mindshifts that was so helpful to me as a young man growing up learning to solo through chord changes… We usually learn the pentatonic and blues scale boxes via a “root on the 6th string” approach… And then one day I started seeing them from … Continue reading Pentatonics From A 5th String Root
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips Reading two clefs simultaneously is one of the most unique musical challenges available and the piano is virtually the only instrument that requires us to do so. When you get in the zone of reading two clefs at the same time, you enter a true flow state. … Continue reading Learning to read two clefs at once!
Blues Guitar Unleashed Blog I talk about counting ALL the time… and I’m well aware of that… However, I’ll be the first to admit that there are some times, particularly in a slow blues, where counting is pretty tough – if not impossible. See Blues Guitar Unleashed solo #4 as an example When that happens, … Continue reading Count The Uncountable
