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Welcome to the community challenge. Every week I've been offering a writing prompt. This week it is:
Write something with a secondary dominant in the chord progression
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Where to Start • Lesson Archive • Recommended Lesson Plan • 2021-08-31 07:05:35 +0000 UTC View Post
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This was a vacation stream with a simplified setup. Hope you enjoy.
Question 1: Rohan was curious about a practice method for learning intervals
Question 2: Page Lin was curious about <...
2021-08-25 17:45:08 +0000 UTC View PostHi Everyone,
This week and next week I'll be out of town on a little vacation, so I may not be as quick to respond to questions here or in the community forum, but I'll still be around! Just a reminder. Also, I'm planning to do a live Q&A as well, but it might be a little simpler than my previous streams.
ANYWAYS, this weeks' Community Challenge is simple: write something that involves sliding.<...
2021-08-24 21:31:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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This series has been in the back of my mind for a long time. In my weird brain, I've been scheming and planning and trying to map out a course about "what is my job when I play with others?" I've tried to start this series numerous times and it kept getting bigger and more detailed. I finally decided to just go for it.
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Here are the questions for this week. Click the link for the timestamped answers.
Question 1: Dennis had some questions around how to think about relative major and minor and I discussed this idea of the heirachy of tonality between chords and scales.
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This is a new thing I've been doing. Not sure if I'm going to keep the Community Challenge around in its full capa...
2021-08-17 14:57:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Where to Start • Lesson Archive • Recommended Lesson Plan • 2021-08-16 19:36:57 +0000 UTC View Post
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Lots of questions this week! Also, now that the stream is over, I'm remembering that I'm EXTREMELY sleep deprived today. So if I seemed a little loopy, thats probably it! Haa
Ok, on to the questions:
Question 1: DeDé said I should write some music if no one asks any ...
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Also, special welcome to new folks!
This is a new thing I've been trying out around here. Each week I've been giving a Community Challenge. The idea is to write some music based on a weekly ...
Where to Start • Lesson Archive • Recommended Lesson Plan • 2021-08-09 19:52:11 +0000 UTC View Post
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Great questions this week!
Question 1: Rohan had a followup about right hand technique as well as a few questions about memorizing note names and intervals.
Question 2: Leo needed some clarif...
2021-08-06 19:10:13 +0000 UTC View PostNew here? Wondering where to start? Click here
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This week's Community Challenge is: Write something in Dorian Mode
This means, write a chord progression, a melody, a whole song - whatever you like! Something simple, something complex. As long as it's in Dorian, you're good!
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Where to Start • Lesson Archive • Recommended Lesson Plan • 2021-08-02 18:11:50 +0000 UTC View Post
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Here were the questions for Office Hours this week:
Question 1: Rohan had questions about technique for Major Scale practice and I talked a bit about left and right hand placement.
Question 2<...
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Before I send you off on the next community challenge, I wanted to give you a little bit of encouragement. This is it:
The things I'm posting here - lessons, livestreams, community challenges - are designed to digested at your own pace. On my patreon, there is no "falling behind" or "failing to catch up." I am trying t...
2021-07-27 21:00:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Where to Start • Lesson Archive • Recommended Lesson Plan • 2021-07-26 16:44:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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This was a great stream! Here are the questions
Question 1: Mateus ...
2021-07-23 18:00:48 +0000 UTC View PostBefore I talk about the Community Challenge for this week, I thought I would tell you about a useful new feature I've added to the Where to Start link at the top of every post. That page explains pretty much everything you need to know about my Patreon except one very important thing: which lessons to watch and in what order. Thats why I've added a link to ...
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Hey! I've got a helpful page called Scott's Recommended Lesson Plan showing a list of lessons to watch in the ideal order.
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This one is going to be fun. If you want to do more writing challenges, check out the previous challenge.
This weeks challenge: Write something using 7th chords
I'm going live at 4pm EST to do my version of this challenge bu...
2021-07-13 15:25:27 +0000 UTC View Post
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This was a long one! And a good one.
Question 1 Mr K wanted some ideas to help a friend stick with her guitar practice goals
Question 2 Leo from Florida was curious about a practice rou...
2021-07-10 20:49:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Where to Start • Lesson Archive • Recommended Lesson Plan • 2021-07-08 23:45:15 +0000 UTC View Post
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This has been fun! We got a lot of submissions from the previous challenge.
This week will be fun but still a challenge. Your goal is to write a riff for at least a section of your creation. This could be interpr...
2021-07-06 16:58:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Where to Start • Lesson Archive • Recommended Lesson Plan • 2021-07-05 15:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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This was a chill stream with some funky mishaps. Mainly, Ernie (our dog) is terrified of the very occasional fireworks so I had to take care of her a bit. Also, I took the sound absorption down in my room so it sounds echoey in here. Also, I just realized I spelled absorption as "absorbtion" during the stream. Whatever! Sometimes you have days like th...
2021-07-03 03:28:25 +0000 UTC View Post
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I'm going live at 3:30EST, today! And every Tuesday from now on.
This week's Community Challenge is: write something in Mixolydian.
That's it! You can either stick to exclusively mixolydian the entire time, or you can write in a Major Key (or even minor if you wanna get fancy) and use Mixolydian substitutions.
Post YOUR mixolydian creations on the community foru...
2021-06-29 16:14:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Where to Start • Lesson Archive • Recommended Lesson Plan • 2021-06-28 14:39:36 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hi Everyone,
This was a great Q&A Session. Here is what happened:
Question 1: Honkinen was wondering how to get the most out of a 2 hour break every day ay work. We talked about how to set goals and how to practice around them.
