Relative pitch is our ability to hear and understand the intervals between notes without having them written on a score. Developing relative pitch is very useful when we want to compose, or to anticipate the sound of the next note we are going to play. In...
Today we are going to learn what intervals and scale degrees are. This will help us understand the difference between, for example, major and minor interval sounds, which usually account for the biggest differences when we hear a certain scale or sequence of sounds....
Are you a couch potato? If you watch the TV and cannot refrain yourself from playing a music instrument while doing it, then you are my kind. When I started playing the guitar, I spent the first 6 months trying to nail a barre chord, one of the easiest chords to play...
The eternal dilemma about how to choose an handpan scale is quite something, especially as buying such instruments is an economic effort and an investment on playing commitment. There are several ideas and theories about choosing the right scale and version, but more...
Chord building, or rather what’s know as the harmonization of a scale, is picking each note of any scale or mode and stacking the notes in thirds, usually up to four notes. But what does this stacking mean? Let’s pick the C major scale: C D E F G A B Starting from the...
Know your handpan For this third lesson, I’ve decided to focus on the analysis of the handpan I am playing at home, a version of an Hijaz scale that has the following notes: E3, A3, Bb3, C#4, D4, E4, F4, G4 and A4 According to the disposition of the notes, the scale...
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