Tired of the same old D-G-A songs? Here’s an easy method for creating a brand new chord and using it in a chord progression. Basically, you take a traditional chord, move one finger by one fret. Go back and forth between the regular chord and its one-note-altered variation. Then slide the variation to somewhere else…
This riff starts out fairly straight forward, but as it transitions to the chorus it adds more and more twists, concluding with a really surprising chord. That adding of interest keeps you engaged enough that when you go through it once you’re ready to hear it all over again. The verse is essentially a predictable…
I’m sure you can relate. You are noodling on your guitar and come up with a cool new riff. You scramble around for something to record, for if you don’t capture it now you’ll soon forget. Inspirations are fleeting. I first used Quicktime and built-in mic on my Mac, but these days I mostly use…
I must confess that I am quite embarrassed by the quality of the videos I’ve put up so far. And by that, I am talking about both the quality of the video (I know that as handy as the webcam built into my MacBook Pro is, it’s really not adequate for a watchable video) and…