One of the more common questions I hear is “how do I go about creating my own bass lines and grooves?” One of the simplest
It’s a fair question… after all, we learn to identify which key a piece of music is in, and we carefully think about functions of
Okay, so let’s say you are learning a song. Here is the usual approach: You decide to figure out the right notes as a first
Eyes closed…. When I wrote this article for notreble about playing without looking at the fretboard, about the micro and macro ways of feeling the
Fingering a Fifth You probably know it as a “1 by 2”: one string up, two frets over, like this (the numbers are fingering options
E# – Maybe not so Sharp? Got a question, here is my answer. The short answer is, well sort of: musicians would know what to
My Beef… Many theory books teach the cycle of fifths without the crucial explanations of Why?, and then they list the “order of flats and