Tune your guitar with this online tuner. Tune up every time you pick up your guitar. For best results, buy an electronic tuner.
To hear a string, click on the controller next to its letter, or number if you know them by number. If you don’t know which is which: E, or the [...]
Music Theory - Intervals
Just as atoms are the smallest building blocks of matter, we can consider intervals the smallest building blocks of music. We need to know:
What an interval is
Where did it come from
What it sounds like
How to play it
It all starts with the major scale, remember this thing with the notes C, D, [...]
How is it that some people can simply “play by ear”? What does that really mean? Well, just as an electrician can look at a circuit diagram and understand what it means, when you have a certain amount of “music” inside your being you can literally hear the structure of the music, just [...]
Ear training is the single best exercise you can do to improve your musicianship. A good place to start is jump right into identifying triadic chords. Triads are common in popular and classical music so finding examples in your everyday listening should be easy. This article intentionally shortcuts some rigors of music [...]
