The Awesome Power of the Third
It’s time to learn about the awesome power of the THIRD. No, you don’t NEED to know this. It’s just cool.
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Unlocking Musical Magic: A Primer on the Circle of Fifths
The Circle of Fifths is a chart that shows the relationships between all the musical keys. The Circle of Fifths can be helpful, but it takes a little education for a newcomer to understand it. That’s why I made the Box of Fifths, because sometimes it’s easier for me to reference a simple list of…
The Circle of Fifths Reference Chart: Your Key to Musical Brilliance
You might be interested in this article: Unlocking Musical Magic: A Primer on the Circle of Fifths.
4 Music Apps I Love
Being a hobbyist or gigging musician in the 2020s is quite a bit different from when I learned to play a few decades ago. One big difference is that the modern first-world guitarist has access to a fair bit of helpful technology. Below are four apps I love and use regularly! Pro Metronome One of…
Unraveled: The Blueprint of the Major Musical Scale
Unraveled: The Blueprint of the Major Musical Scale! This article discusses the formula to build a major scale and how that formula and the scale itself apply to musical keys and the Circle of Fifths. Do you absolutely need to know this to play guitar? Nope, you don’t. But it’s cool information and you might…
Box of Fifths: A Quick Guide to Musical Keys
An alternative reference to the venerable Circle of Fifths. The top box has the sharps and the lower box has the flats. That’s pretty much it.
The A to G of the Musical Alphabet
Here’s the “A to G of the Musical Alphabet!” I was going to have a “tl;dr” section at the top of this piece, but this article turned out to be pretty to-the-point. It’s just this one idea: the musical alphabet starts at A and goes through G then starts over again, pretty much forever. Although…
Cracking the Chord Code: Decoding the Magic of 1, 4, 5 Chords in Music
A little useful music theory for jamming guitarists!