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My Top 10 Favorite Guitar Rock Solos Of All Time

The Best Guitar Solos Ever These are the 10 guitar solos I have listened to a billion times and that I have never gotten tired of. Under A Glass Moon (Dream Theater) Venus Isle (Eric Johnson) Comfortably Numb (David Gilmour, Pink Floyd) Another Brick In The Wall (David Gilmour, Pink Floyd) Sometimes I Feel Like My Top 10 Favorite Guitar Rock Solos Of All Time

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An Easy System To Memorize The Key Signatures For All Modes

An Easy System To Memorize The Key Signatures For All Modes There are 2 approaches to figuring out all modes in all 12 keys. 1) Thinking relative scales: This is the system taught in music schools. When you use this approach, you count back a number of scale degree steps to the relative major scale. An Easy System To Memorize The Key Signatures For All Modes

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Musical Storytelling In Improvisation

Playing A Guitar Solo is Like “Talking With Your Guitar”. In the beginning stages, students of improvisation tend to solo like they are trying to constantly reinvent the wheel. They constantly try to keep coming up with ever new phrases and new melodic ideas, which makes the solo sound like it’s “meandering about” without ever Musical Storytelling In Improvisation

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There Are Only 2048 Possible Scales In Music

Musicians Highly Overestimate How Many Scales There Are In Music. Many years ago, in one of my first semesters at Berklee College of Music, I read the book “Innumeracy”. Written by famous mathematician, John Allen Paulos, the book was required reading for one of the audio engineering classes at Berklee. The gist of the book There Are Only 2048 Possible Scales In Music

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Music Theory: The Difference Between “Key” and “Scale”

“Scale” and “Key” are not the same thing. The terms “key” and “scale” are usually interchanged and confused. Very few musicians realize there is a difference. For example: You could be in the key of C but in the scale of Ab Lydian. Later on: I will explain how this is possible. Scale: series of Music Theory: The Difference Between “Key” and “Scale”

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