[Just About Music]

Bite Size Lessons for Everyone

Accelerated Guitar Learning

Some tricks that can help in our pursuit of music as we continually search for transformation

Beginners Acoustic

Let's look at the 'CAGED System' family of Chords and its applications.

This is foundational for every self-studying guitarist.

B for Bossa Nova

How to get that fingering, chord work and sound?

Study the Maj 6/9 and Min7 Chord shapes and research on some common comping patterns. Rhythm anticipation and the 3/2 and 2/3 Latin 'Clava' Patterns .

C for Chromatic Chords

How to link the 7 Chords in a Major Progression. Inputing the Diminished and Half-Dim Chords in between the typical 'harmonized Scale'

D for Damp It!

Right hand damp and the Left hand mute insights and discipline

These are habits we use unknowingly. "Silencing" the vibrating strings helps us during recording sessions and stops the occasional 'Feedbacks' on stage.

Rhythm Guitar

Concepts on dynamics when playing from the 'Verse to Choruses', and choice of using 'Fuller sounding Chords'. The need to play in different style and rhythm, yet keep the pulse and groove of the original tune.

Lead Framework

Let's attempt to Map out the Modes, Pentatonic, Blues, Major and Minor scales.

The money notes and how to explore different styles and feel. Techniques like Legato, Bends, Picking concepts and lots of practicing.

12 Bar Blues Form

Playing the Blues it's the beginning of Language. R'N'B Shuffles, Jazz Blues, Chicago and Delta Blues. Bottle Neck playing, the introduction to Dominant Chords and the Blues Scale.

Basic Jazz Chords

On how to transition from a Pop to a Jazzier 1-6-2-5 "Sound"

1-3-5-7-9-13 Chord, Lydian(#4) Sound, Bebop scale, Arpeggios and Chord tones.

What the 2-5-1?

Lets explore some ideas on turning a song like 'Sunday Morning' by incorporating those 'Cheem' embellishments

Tritone Subs, Melodic minor, b9 and chromatic chord movements.

Basic Walking Bass

We will explore some basics into that Jazzy Walking Bass lines.

Enclosure, Approach target notes and using Arpeggios and scales. Rhythm patterns to get that sound and vibe. Also incorporating some Jazz Chord work.

Low barrier to entry :)

Sonic City: Making Rock Music and Urban Life in SingaporeSingapore, Rock City. On any given day in the basement of Peninsula Plaza, a shopping mall in central Singapore, Singaporeans of different ethnicities and ages can be found imagining and living a way of life through music. Based on five years of deep participatory experience, this sonic ethnography is centered around a community of noisy people who make rock music within the constraints of urban life in Singapore. The heart and soul of this community is English Language rock-and-roll music pioneered in Singapore by several members of the legendary 1960s “beats and blues” band, The Straydogs, who continue to engage this community in a sonic way of life. Grounded in sound studies, Ferzacca draws on Bruno Latour’s ideas of the social—continually emergent, constantly in-the-making, “associations of heterogeneous elements” of human and non-human “mediators and intermediaries”—to portray a community entangled in the confounding relations between vernacular and national heritage projects. Music shops, music gear, music genres, sound, urban space, neighborhoods, State presence, performance venues, practice spaces, regional travel, local, national, regional, and sonic histories afford expected and unexpected opportunities for work, play, and meaning, in the contemporary music scene in this Southeast Asian city-state. The emergent quality of this deep sound is fiercely cosmopolitan, yet entirely Singaporean.

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