Archive for July, 2010

Ascending Melodic Intervals Ear Training

Thursday, July 29th, 2010 Posted in Musicianship | 1 Comment »

Embedded below is a YouTube video I've made to help memorize the ascending melodic intervals. The reason I made this is because I was looking for something like it and ... Read more..

Native Instruments Komplete

Thursday, July 29th, 2010 Posted in Virtual Instruments | 1 Comment »

Komplete is suite of software which includes all kinds of great Native Instruments virtual instruments. What I love about it is that it really includes just about everything I would ... Read more..

Learning Intervals with “Happy Birthday”

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 Posted in Musicianship | 1 Comment »

I've found (like many others before me) that it's helpful to have a song to reference in your head when you're learning the musical intervals (a great example is how ... Read more..

Guitar Man

Monday, July 19th, 2010 Posted in Books | 1 Comment »

I just finished reading a book called Guitar Man about a 34 year old English man who is inspired by Davey Graham's "Anji" to try to learn how to play ... Read more..

Vox AC4TV Tube Amp

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 Posted in Gear | 1 Comment »

My next gear purchase for my home studio is going to be this Vox AC4TV Tube Amp. I've heard great things about it and it looks like exactly what I ... Read more..

What People Call “Talent” Is Actually…

Monday, July 5th, 2010 Posted in Books, General | No Comments »

This Is Your Brain On Music (which I recently finished reading) mentioned something called the "10,000 hour rule" which I first came across while reading Outliers by Malcom Gladwell. What ... Read more..