Melody Of A Song – How Is It Made? Good morning. This is Duane and we’re doing a series called “Good Stuff You Really Ought to Know About Music,” all related to music theory. We’ve talked about the various kinds … Continue reading →
Do All Musicians Agree On The Blues Scale? Good morning. This is Duane. We’ve been doing a series on music theory called “Good Stuff You Really Ought to Know About Music!” Today I’d like to take up a hybrid blues … Continue reading →
Musical Scales – How Many Are There? Good morning. This is Duane, and we’re doing a series on music theory called “Good Stuff You Really Ought to Know About Music.” We’ve covered a lot of different areas but we got … Continue reading →
Pentatonic Scales: A Very Harmonic Type of Scale Watch this 5 minute video from YouTube on Pentatonic Scales – 5 note scales. Here is an excellent article on Pentatonic Scales from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentatonic_scale And here is the video on YouTube: … Continue reading →
The Church Modes: Dorian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Ionian, Phrygian, Locrian Scales Back in the period between roughly 1150AD and 1400AD there developed scales called “modes”. (Actually deriving from the Greeks some thousand years before.) And since music was centered in the … Continue reading →
Pentatonic Scales Illustrated on the Piano As I’m sure you know, there’s many kinds of scales. For example, there’s major scales that proceed from the root up to the octave note in a whole-half-whole-half pattern. There are minor scales that … Continue reading →
Music Scales Galore! Major, Minor, Chromatic, Whole Tone & Pentatonic Scales Good morning, this is Duane. Today, I’d like to look at Music Scales Galore! Major, Minor, Chromatic, Whole Tone & Pentatonic Scales. All of what I was just playing, … Continue reading →
Am I Wasting My Time Practicing Piano Scales? Duane: Good morning this is Duane and I want to ask you a question. Am I Wasting My Time Practicing Piano Scales? Why should you learn scales? Piano teachers teach scales as … Continue reading →
How The Tune Of a Song Comes From Scales Today, I’d like to illustrate how simple music really is and how the tune of a song comes from scales. Let me play The First Noel. I’ll just play a part … Continue reading →
Minor Scales On The Piano – 3 Kinds Good morning. This is Duane. Today I’d like to talk about the three kinds of minor scales on the piano and how they affect songs that are written in minor keys. There … Continue reading →
