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- Guitar
Guitar Songs I'm learning, theory I keep forgetting, and practice that actually worked. Most guitar theory gets taught twice — once in Western terms and once in sargam — and…
- Shape of My Heart
Shape of My Heart #music/fingerstyle · a companion to Guitar Sting, Ten Summoner's Tales (1993). The guitar figure was written by Dominic Miller, who is credited as co-writer —…
- The E♭ chord
The E♭ chord #music/chords · a companion to Guitar E♭ is the chord that stops people. Not because it is theoretically difficult — it is an ordinary major triad — but because the…
- Pieces and problems
Pieces and problems Standalone, outside the theory arc — a single chord and a single piece, each awkward enough to be worth its own note. The E♭ chord — the chord that stops…
- A melody, worked through
A melody, worked through #music/melody · Note 9 of 9 · part of Guitar Everything in this series, applied to eight bars. The melody is my own, written to be simple enough to…
- Beyond the triad
Beyond the triad #music/voicings · Note 5 of 9 · part of Guitar A triad is three notes (Chords). Everything here is what happens when you take one away, or add one on top. Two…
- Chords
Chords #music/chords · Note 4 of 9 · part of Guitar A chord is three notes Take the scale from Sargam and the scale and stack every other note: the 1st, 3rd and 5th. That is a…
- Reading music
Reading music #music/notation · Note 8 of 9 · part of Guitar Two systems. Tab tells you where to put your fingers. Staff tells you what the music actually is. Guitarists can get a…
- Rhythm and tempo
Rhythm and tempo #music/rhythm · Note 7 of 9 · part of Guitar Wrong notes in time sound like a choice. Right notes out of time sound like a mistake. Rhythm is the half that gets…
- Sargam and the scale
Sargam and the scale #music/sargam · Note 2 of 9 · part of Guitar The seven swaras Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni — then Sa again, an octave up. Written in full: Shadja, Rishabh, Gandhar,…
- Sharps, flats and the twelve
Sharps, flats and the twelve #music/accidentals · Note 3 of 9 · part of Guitar Seven letters, twelve pitches. The five extra ones are where most of the confusion in music theory…
- The capo
The capo #music/capo · Note 6 of 9 · part of Guitar A capo is a movable nut. That is the whole device. Everything below is a consequence of it. The physics A stretched string's…
- The fretboard
The fretboard #music/fretboard · Note 1 of 9 · part of Guitar Six strings In standard tuning, from the thickest string to the thinnest: String Note Also called --- --- --- 6th E…
- Guitar theory
Guitar theory Nine notes, in order, building on each other. The whole arc is one argument: sargam and Western theory are the same system, taught twice and almost never side by…