‘Sun Shines Through The Window’ – Blues Play Along Track – Rhythm Guitar, Lead Guitar, Bass, Ukulele, Drums and Vocals

Mar 22, 2020 | Guitar

Listen to the track at 90bpm: 70bpm: 60bpm:   Download the MP3 file – Sun Shines Through The Window (Full Speed) Download the Guitar Pro 7 file – Sun Shines Through The Window LEAD GTR – Sun Shines Through The Window – PDF Sheet Music...

Dynamics

Sep 28, 2017 | Guitar, Ukulele

Here is a list of dynamic markings you might encounter in drum sheet music. This list will be updated as more dynamic markings are thought of, and will start out as a basic list of fundamental dynamics notation. pp (pianissimo = very soft/quiet) p (piano = soft/quiet)...

Notes on the Guitar Fretboard on all of the strings – Quick Reference Sheet for Grade 3+

Apr 5, 2015 | Guitar

Rockschool Syllabus: You will need to learn the main notes on the E and A strings to get by in Rockschool, in particular from Grade 3 onwards because they will be needed to play barre chords and scales in the correct places. It is beneficial to understand how sharps...

Chord inversions, Slash Chords, Alternative Bass Notes – A quick explanation

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...

Relative minor and relative major theory summary

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...

Accents

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...

Ostinato

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

Understanding Notes and Rests in Music Notation – Reference Sheet

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...

Subdivisions, Time Signatures and Cakes

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...

Root Notes

Aug 15, 2013 | Guitar

Questions about learning root notes and why comes up a lot by guitarists. In this article, I will attempt to answer some questions you might have about root notes, and hopefully encourage some people enough to spend time to learn them. Learning root notes might sound...

What is a Tonic Chord?

Aug 15, 2013 | Guitar, Ukulele

A tonic chord is the same chord name as the key of the music. For example: If the song is in E major, the tonic chord has to be E major. You can also have other chords in a song with the key of E major, chords like A major and B major, but these would not be the tonic...