May 17, 2015 | Guitar, Ukulele
These chord progressions will help you practice changing chords, and prepare for playing actual songs. They will also give you ideas for creating your own chord progressions – all you need to do is change the order of some of the chords to make your own. If you...
Mar 25, 2015 | Guitar, Ukulele
About the sheets The rhythms mainly work with 8th notes and quarter notes, so playing the 8ths with a down, up strumming pattern, and the quarter notes with down strums would be a good way to strum these exercises. Some of the notes and rests may be less familiar to...
Mar 17, 2015 | Guitar, Ukulele
Originally posted as 10 seperate blog posts, they are now all contained here on this page. go ahead and download the free ebook, listen to the audio examples below (or from the download) and read the description of each exercise below as you go through it. Get Free...
Mar 11, 2015 | Guitar, Ukulele
These 4 chord progressions are all in the key of E minor. The two bar repeating exercises only have 2 easy chords, and the rhythm is the same for each bar, so although we are working on rhythm and changing chords at the same time, these exercises are very accessible...
Feb 24, 2015 | Guitar, Ukulele
I wrote these chord progressions to help students with their Rockschool Improvisation (based on the 2012-2018 syllabus) practicing. I would also highly recommend getting their companion guides, which have official practice exercsies. My exercises are just as an add on...
Feb 24, 2015 | Guitar, Ukulele
I wrote these chord progressions to help students with their Rockschool Improvisation (based on the 2012-2018 syllabus) practicing. I would also highly recommend getting their companion guides, which have official practice exercsies. My exercises are just as an add on...
Dec 13, 2014 | Guitar, Ukulele
Take a look at this picture and you will see the size difference for each guitar. From Left to right, the guitars are Concert Ukulele, 1/2 size guitar, 3/4 size guitar, full size guitar. Apologies that the full size acoustic is on a stand, but it has a curved back so...
Nov 2, 2014 | Guitar, Ukulele
You may have seen chords like Am/C or G/F#. You may have just learned the chord without understanding it. You may have panicked and not played it. Here is a quick explanation of how it works The first part of the slash chord is the main chord being played. Some of the...
Oct 26, 2014 | Guitar, Ukulele
Above, is the sheet for guitar. Using 3 open major chords we have 5 chord progressions to practice. You could strum each one once, or maybe 4 times each, or make up your own rhythms. You should look for any ‘cheats’ for changing the chords quickly. Rather...
Aug 18, 2014 | Guitar, Ukulele
Here are some tips that I wrote when I started out home recording. They will take you through some of the basics and logistic thoughts that you are likely to come across yourself. Neighbours – When I first started recording music I worried about upsetting...
Aug 6, 2014 | Guitar, Ukulele
Natural minor scales consist of 7 different notes, and the same goes for major scales.Some major and minor scales have the same notes as each other, but start on different notes, making them different key signatures. These are relative keys. For example, the C major...
Apr 20, 2014 | Guitar, Ukulele
Accents are where you play notes or chords a bit louder. It enables the dynamics for a section to stay the same, but highlight certain notes as being a bit louder. They are used by all styles of music, and are a good way to add dynamic rhythm. For example, to make a...
Feb 2, 2014 | Guitar, Ukulele
An ostinato is a repetating pattern, phrase or motif within a piece of music. For example, a short repeating guitar riff is an ostinato. More info on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostinato
Feb 2, 2014 | Guitar, Ukulele
Get Free PDF Download → This is a very useful sheet that will help students of most instruments that read music. The sheet includes images or rests and notes, and their modern or classic names, and also note values and rest values. This can be useful as a reference...
Aug 19, 2013 | Guitar, Ukulele
Subdivisions is a general term that we usually use to describe various notes that are shorter than one beat, such as 8th notes, triplets, 16th notes, and all the rest. 1 beat crotchets (quarter notes) can be divided into halves to make quavers (8th notes). These 8th...
