Drawing handpan note templates

Drawing handpan note templates

In this article, we’re going to learn how to DIY-make the note magnets that are used to draw the notes on the shell or to dampen or mute their sound when we need it. The magnetic paper can be bought online, either with one side printable using a common inkjet printer...
HaganeNote handpan Virtual Instrument

HaganeNote handpan Virtual Instrument

The HaganeNote Handpan Virtual Instrument (link) is the result of passion and investigation. During the last two months I’ve had the opportunity to sit at my desk and study programming languages, something which had been pending for some years. A dear friend says that...
Relative pitch training – Part 1

Relative pitch training – Part 1

  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...
Music intervals and degrees of the Major Scale

Music intervals and degrees of the Major Scale

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....
The Lazy Musician

The Lazy Musician

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...