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Beginner Drummers Guide to Playing Drums (Part 4)
By Paul Gian · 15 years ago
A beginner drummer's course is designed to be interactive. Along with theory comes practice. Whatever is learned from the workbook, be they drum notations, drum beats, or musical phrases, would be applied during review and ...
Learn How to Play Tapping On The Guitar
By Paul Gian · 15 years ago
That driving, ecstatic, climactic sound of properly executed tapping on a guitar has driven many a crowd to a screaming, writhing peak! The tablature for tapping can seem intimidating, but it is actually a relatively ...
Learn How to Play Economy Picking On The Guitar
By Paul Gian · 15 years ago
Economy picking is not how you learn to play guitar when you're on a budget.... Basically, when economy picking teaches you to be economical with your hand movements, so that you can pick faster, with ...
Learn to Play Compound Chords On Guitar
By Paul Gian · 15 years ago
Compound chords are also known as slash chords. The idea of a compound chord is easy to grasp - they are simply two chords played together, and will most often be shown in tab or ...
The Key to Transcribing Music - Relative Pitch Ear Training
By Paul Gian · 15 years ago
Transcribing music is an important skill for musicians of any level. If you're a casual musician, you'll likely want to transcribe music for your own reference, as well as to share with others. If you ...
Benefits of Ear Training For Violinists
By Paul Gian · 15 years ago
Aural skills such as relative pitch, which allow musicians to have a precise understanding of and command over the differences in pitch that constitute one of the central elements of music, are developed through relative ...
Can Guitarists Use Ear Training?
By Paul Gian · 15 years ago
Even if you're a casual guitarist, the sort who plays just for the fun of it, you've probably heard a little bit about ear training. "Ear training" means, simply put, training your ears to recognize ...
Lesson to Learn How to Tune Your Guitar
By Paul Gian · 16 years ago
Using a tuning fork is a popular way to tune a guitar and other instruments. A tuning fork is a two prong device that has a stem and is shaped like a U. They are ...