Well, I was looking around the internet for some good tutorials on major triads similar to what I learned from Jeff Ladenheim. It turns out that there are a TON of ways to teach this and maybe some are easier then others or some work better with certain people. I think the way he taught [...]
Alright everyone, I have seen quite a lot of searches for “Phish Backing Tracks” coming through the site so I figured that maybe I should reveal where some are. I used to use Emil’s Tablature for all of my Phish starting tablature. I have since moved over to Strange Design (easier navigation) BUT Emil’s site [...]
For those of you that are trying to learn your circle of fifths there is a pretty decent site that has some online tests. These tests get increasingly hard and are pretty good at helping you memorize this stuff. That is all this really is, memorization. So go forth, and memorize!
Circle of Fifths Online Test
National Guitar Workshop Announce Jam Summit
With Jimmy Herring and Oteil Burbridge in Purchase, NY July 26-31
NGW cordially invites all creative, open-minded, and genre busting musicians ON ANY INSTRUMENT to experience the first and only music workshop dedicated to the love and spirit of the Jam.
NGW has culled the Jam Summit faculty from some of [...]
We all know that there are really only two things that can be done when playing music. You can mess with the notes, or you can mess with the rhythm. (humor me for leaving out tone and effects) Those are your choices. OK, so how does someone get better at those? From talking with some [...]
For a while I have been searching (not that hard) for somewhere online that had free backing tracks for a lot of jazz standards. Finally, I found one. And it can be found here. It may be that this site is common among jazz players and I just didn’t know about it but it seems [...]
