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Community Challenge 11 | Write something with a secondary dominant

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Hi Everyone,

Welcome to the community challenge. Every week I've been offering a writing prompt. This week it is:

Write something with a secondary dominant in the chord progression

If you need a refresher (or just a first-time-fresher), check out my Music Theory Monday lesson ...

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Music Theory Monday 27 | Power Chords and Magic Eye Puzzles

Where to Start • Lesson Archive • Recommended Lesson Plan2021-08-31 07:05:35 +0000 UTC View Post

Live Stream | 52: OFFICE HOURS | Thursday, Aug 26, 2:00PM PST

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Hi Everyone,

This was a vacation stream with a simplified setup. Hope you enjoy.

Question 1: Rohan was curious about a practice method for learning intervals 

2021-08-25 17:45:08 +0000 UTC View Post

Community Challenge 10 | Sliding

Hi Everyone,

This week and next week I'll be out of town on a little vacation, so I may not be as quick to respond to questions here or in the community forum, but I'll still be around! Just a reminder. Also, I'm planning to do a live Q&A as well, but it might be a little simpler than my previous streams

ANYWAYS, this weeks' Community Challenge is simple: wri...

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Roles 01 | Rhythm Guitar | Introduction

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Hi Everyone,

This series has been in the back of my mind for a long time. In my weird brain, I've been scheming and planning and trying to map out a course about "what is my job when I play with others?" I've tried to start this series numerous times and it kept getting bigger and more det...

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Live Stream | 51: OFFICE HOURS | Friday, August 20th 1:00PM EST

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Hi Everyone,

Here are the questions for this week. Click the link for the timestamped answers.

Question 1: Dennis had some questions around how to think about relative major and minor and I discussed this idea of the heirachy of tonali...

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Community Challenge 09 | Natural Minor

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Hi Everyone,

This is a new thing I've been doing. Not sure if I'm going to ke...

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CAGED System Basics | 7 | Full Circle

Where to Start • Lesson Archive • Recommended Lesson Plan2021-08-16 19:36:57 +0000 UTC View Post

Live Stream | 50: OFFICE HOURS | Saturday, August 14th, 5:00 EST

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Hi Everyone,

Lots of questions this week! Also, now that the stream is over, I'm remembering that I'm EXTREMELY sleep deprived today. So if I seemed a little loopy, thats probably it! Haa

Ok, on to the questions:
Question 1: DeDé ...

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Community Challenge 08 | Extreme Dynamics

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Here is a hard link to the stream: https://youtu.be/5q7mX0bHtsA

Hi Everyone,

Also, special welcome to new folks!

This is a new thing I've been trying out around here. Each week I've been giving a Community Challenge. ...

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Music Theory Monday 26 | More Reharmonization

Where to Start • Lesson Archive • Recommended Lesson Plan2021-08-09 19:52:11 +0000 UTC View Post

Live Stream | 49: OFFICE HOURS | Sunday, August 8th, 1:00PM

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Hi Everyone,

Great questions this week!

Question 1: Rohan had a followup about right hand technique as well as a few questions about memorizing note names and intervals.

2021-08-06 19:10:13 +0000 UTC View Post

Community Challenge 07 | Write something in Dorian Mode

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Hi Everyone,

This week's Community Challenge is: Write something in Dorian Mode

This means, write a chord progression, a melody, a whole song - whatever you like! Something simple, something complex. As long as it's in Dorian, you're good!

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CAGED System Basics | 6 | E Shape

Where to Start • Lesson Archive • Recommended Lesson Plan2021-08-02 18:11:50 +0000 UTC View Post

Live Stream | 48: OFFICE HOURS | Friday, July 30th 2:00PM EST

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Hi Everyone,

Here were the questions for Office Hours this week:

Question 1: Rohan had questions about technique for Major Scale practice and I talked a bit about left and right hand placement.

2021-07-28 17:53:41 +0000 UTC View Post

Community Challenge 06 | Open E Bassline

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Hi Everyone, 

Before I send you off on the next community challenge, I wanted to give you a little bit of encouragement. This is it: 

The things I'm posting here - lessons, livestreams, community challenges - are designed to digested at your own pace. On my patreon, there is no "falli...

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CAGED System Basics | 5 | G Shape

Where to Start • Lesson Archive • Recommended Lesson Plan2021-07-26 16:44:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Live Stream | 47: OFFICE HOURS | Sunday, July 25th, 2PM

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Also, check out the new Scott's Recommended Lesson Plan 

Hi Everyone,

This was a great stream! Here are the questions

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Community Challenge 05 | Write two different parts of a song using the same chord progression

Before I talk about the Community Challenge for this week, I thought I would tell you about a useful new feature I've added to the Where to Start link at the top of every post. That page explains pretty much everything you need to know about my Patreon except one very important thing: which lessons to watch and in what order. Thats why I've added a link to 2021-07-20 15:33:41 +0000 UTC View Post

Music Theory Monday 25 | Reharmonization with 7th Chords

Where to Start • Lesson Archive • Recommended Lesson Plan2021-07-19 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post

Live Stream | 46: OFFICE HOURS | Saturday, July 17, 1:00PM EST

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Hey! I've got a helpful page called Scott's Recommended Lesson Plan showing a list of lessons to watch in the ideal order.

Hi Everyone,

2021-07-14 16:56:25 +0000 UTC View Post

Community Challenge 04 | Write something using 7th chords

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Hi Everyone,

This one is going to be fun. If you want to do more writing challenges, check out the previous challenge.

This weeks challenge: Write something using 7th chords

I'm going liv...

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Live Stream | 45: OFFICE HOURS | Sunday, July 11, Noon EST

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Hi Everyone,

This was a long one! And a good one.

Question 1 Mr K wanted some ideas to help a friend stick with her guitar practice goals

Question 2  ...

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CAGED System Basics | 4 | A Shape

Where to Start • Lesson Archive • Recommended Lesson Plan2021-07-08 23:45:15 +0000 UTC View Post

Community Challenge 03 | Write a riff for at least a section of your creation

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Hi Everyone,

This has been fun! We got a lot of submissions from the previous challenge. 

This week will be fun but still a challenge. Your goal is to write a riff for at least a sectio...

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CAGED System Basics | 3 | C Shape

Where to Start • Lesson Archive • Recommended Lesson Plan2021-07-05 15:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Live Stream | 44: OFFICE HOURS | Saturday, July 3rd @ 8:00PM EST

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Hi Everyone,

This was a chill stream with some funky mishaps. Mainly, Ernie (our dog) is terrified of the very occasional fireworks so I had to take care of her a bit. Also, I took the sound absorption down in my room so it sounds echoey in here. Also, I just realized I spelled absorption as "absorbtion" during the...

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Community Challenge 02 | Write something in Mixolydian.

Hi Everyone,

I'm going live at 3:30EST, today! And every Tuesday from now on.

This week's Community Challenge is: write something in Mixolydian. 

That's it! You can either stick to exclusively mixolydian the entire time, or you can write in a Major Key (or even minor if you wanna get fancy) and use Mixolydian substitutions.

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CAGED System Basics | 2 | D Shape

Where to Start • Lesson Archive • Recommended Lesson Plan2021-06-28 14:39:36 +0000 UTC View Post

Live Stream | 43: OFFICE HOURS | Friday June 25, NOON EST

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Hi Everyone,

This was a great Q&A Session. Here is what happened:

Question 1: Honkinen was wondering how to get the most out of a 2 hour break every day ay work. We talked about how to set goals and how to practice around them.

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