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How to Make a Major Scale
Explains the formula for creating a major scale on piano or string instruments. Includes a practice sheet for writing out the notes of all almost every major scale in Western music.
Category:How-To Guides/ManualsReads:834Uploaded:11 / 23 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionChoosing Music for a Memorial Service or Funeral
How to choose Music for a Memorial Service By Suzannah Doyle • www.SuzDoyle.com Planning a memorial service while dealing with the emotional aspects of losing of a loved can be challenging. This article, written by a seasoned performer who has provided music at hundreds of funerals and memorials, helps you understand how to choose music for memorial services, and -- most important -what the function of the music and musicians are at these gatherings. This article is free to copy and share, but not to sell or re-sell.
Category:(not categorized)Reads:314Uploaded:11 / 14 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionJazz Chords: 7#9 and 13 Relationships
This handout shows how to play 7#9 chords; then how they become 13 chords simply by changing the bass note; then how to alternate between 7#9 chord and 13 chords by moving the chord down by half steps, with the bass note moving up a b5, then down a 5th. It's a cool sound!
Category:How-To Guides/ManualsReads:412Uploaded:09 / 30 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionHow to Transpose a Song
A practical (and easy to understand) introduction to how to transpose (change) the key of a song to a different one. Includes explanations of major chords, minor chords, how to simplify a song (with a detailed example), and handy at-a-glance transposing charts for both Major and minor keys.
Category:How-To Guides/ManualsReads:890Uploaded:08 / 18 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionTransposing Chart - Chords in a minor key
A handy chart to help you easily transpose chords from one key to another when songs are in a minor key. Just take the chord numbers from any key, and play the same chord numbers from a different key. Each key has 7 different chords, built on the 7 notes of the scale. Chord number 1 in the chart is built on note number one of the scale on each line. NOTE: In this MINOR CHORDS transposing chart, chord number 1 in each line is the relative minor of chord number 3 in that same line. For example, Am is the relative minor of C. If you look at the Transposing chart for MAJOR CHORDS (see other documents), you'll see that chords in the key of C major are build on the same notes as chords in the key of A minor (the 6 chord of C). For more info on how to use this transposing chart, check out my factsheet about How to Transpose songs: http://www.scribd.com/doc/62568294/How-to-Transpose-a-Song
Category:How-To Guides/ManualsReads:1,590Uploaded:05 / 25 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionHow to Easily Memorize Notes of the C Scale on the Piano
This visual guide shows you how to quickly memorize the 7 note names of the C scale on piano, by separating them into two groups: the C-D-E group, and the F-G-A-B group. Put them together, and you've got the C Scale. Ta DAH!
Category:How-To Guides/ManualsReads:431Uploaded:04 / 12 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionMemorize Treble Staff Notes Quickly
A visual guide to memorizing the notes on a treble music staff. Suggests the acronym "FACE" for remembering the name of the 4 space notes, from lowest to highest, and the phrase "Every Good Boy Does Fine" for the 5 line notes, from lowest to highest.
Category:How-To Guides/ManualsReads:422Uploaded:04 / 12 / 2011ShareAdd to collection7, 9, 11, 13 chords
This handout shows you how chords with 7, 9, 11 or 13 in their name begin with the basic chord triad (made out of 1, 3 and 5); then by skipping up the keys, you ADD the other notes to the basic chord. For example, CMaj7 is made from the C chord, with the natural 7 of the C scale (B) note added. The C7 chord is the same, except the "B" note is lowered half a step to Bb; therefore the C7 chord is made out of 1-3-5 (the triad) with Bb added. The C13 would include all the notes skipping up from C (with the 7 lowered a half step to Bb). Advance jazz players usually choose the 3 most important notes of a chord to play (often either the 3, 7, and 9, or the 7, 3 and 13 for example). This chart shows you the basic chord triad (in the key of C in this example) upon which chords are built. :-)
Category:How-To Guides/ManualsReads:297Uploaded:04 / 12 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionNote Geometry Chords 1
A way to draw lines between the 3 notes of each chord from the key of C (C, Dm, Em, F, G, Am, Bdim) to see what geometric shape they make.
Category:How-To Guides/ManualsReads:339Uploaded:03 / 26 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionNote Geometry Chords 2
A fun exercise in seeing what geometric shape chords have. This one has you create shapes of these chords: C, Cm, CMaj7, C7, Cm7, Cdim7, CmMaj7 and C6.
Category:How-To Guides/ManualsReads:212Uploaded:03 / 26 / 2011ShareAdd to collection
