Music

We say that music consists of three things: Harmony, Melody and Rhythm Harmony and melody both describe the relationship between pitches (although differently) without respect to their duration, whereas rhythm describes the relationship between sounds and their durations without respect to their pitches. Harmony is what happens when we combine …

Introduction NOW THAT YOU’VE GOT THE RIGHT GUITAR, and know how to take care of it, there are just two more things to learn before getting to the fun part (playing it!). One is the correct way to hold the guitar and strum it, either with your fingertips or a …

Introduction Instruments related to the guitar have been in existence since ancient times. The idea of stretching strings across a vibrating chamber of air, called a soundbox, dates back to prehistoric times, and is found in virtually every culture in the world. The idea of using frets to mark the …

Introduction A GUITAR can be many different things. It can be electric, or acoustic, or even electro-acoustic. It can be bluesy, classical, jazzy, folky baroque, or just plain heavy. It can be big enough to fill a football stadium (if, say, Eric Clapton is playing it) or small enough to …

Introduction Free music distribution is a popular option for independent artists who have been looking for a way of getting their music out there. Vibeable allows artists to upload music files to the site and make them available for free. Listeners can also purchase tracks or albums. There are many ways you …

Introduction It is one thing to know what the modes are, to know what modality is in abstraction and to be able to name the modes, even to spell their intervals and relationship. It is one thing to know a scale, but it is quite another to understand it practically. …

Introduction Most of us have heard of music theory. Some of us are immediately excited by the sense that it is foreign to us and by the idea that there is, somewhere, a body of knowledge that will make us better players, that will make us play like our heroes. …