I just wanted to follow up and see how are you doing? I can start explaining you theory little by little if you want! Let me know!

http://www.musictheory.net/lessons explains things really good, I took a break and worked the Jukebox festival here in Anderson California, I am kinda taking a break for a couple days to relax from work, you can create a quiz from what I have learned so far, I know that I will have to go back over things as a refresher

Oh cool! I am in California too!
I can create a quiz for you but I am not sure what have you learned? Let me know and I will have it ready!

Change of Plans, music appreciation, what is it, what should I know, who is who and what is what, you post youtube videos and I listen and watch, also I can research to and we can discuss what I find sound good?

Can you please explain in more details? I am not sure what exactly you are looking for!

learning and understanding music in different era's, styles how they became, songs, stuff like that, Beethoven, Mozart, just to name a few, before them and after them, I have a book with a few I can check out to and I can post about them to, this will help me build my style, even create licks in the they style of

So as I understood you want me to introduce you to composers from different eras and help you to create licks based on their music?

ya something like that

Hmmmm ok! Give me a few days to get it together! You challenged me now! LOL

Something I wrote today

http://soundcloud.com/bascuthach/creations-1

Sounds very good! I like the melodies and ideas! I think you can put it together better so it flows nicely! Some parts sounded a little random but the whole idea is very good!
So I did some research and a lot of classical music is using Harmonic minor would you be interested getting into it and try to start using it in your compositions?

I just wanted to check and see if you are interested getting into classical chord progressions and harmonic minor! Let me know!

The Chord progression sounds good

Ok So let's start with this!

Here is an example of descending fifths


So basically the chord roots move up a 4th then down a third, the sequence being created by repeating that pattern two or three more times

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The circle-of-fifths is probably the strongest and most common harmonic sequence. It consists of root movement by descending fifths and cycles through every diatonic chord in a given key. Below is the chord progression in C major and A minor:

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This is a good start! Please let me know if you have any questions or need help with anything!

Hey!!! I just wanted to follow up and see how are you doing? Do you have any questions??? Let me know !

I showed a friend and he showed me on a piano how I would work it out, now I have to sit and work it out, also I want to try and record a video when I get it down, first I have to sit, with the band and all I have been busy, soon I hope to be back at the computer learning

Sounds good! Let me know when you are ready and I will prepare a new assignment!

Hi! I just wanted to follow up and see how are you doing?

Soon I will be back into doing lessons, Im dropping the band for the last 6 months of my subscription, I have like 2 weeks left in the band, also there are other reason why Im stopping the band, I hope to rejoin the the band after time has passed

Just make sure not to burn any bridges and I am sure you will be able to come back without any problems!
Looking forward for you to continue my mentoring program! Let me know when you are ready and we will get back right into it!

Just wanted to check and see how are you doing? Let me know if you have any questions or need help with anything!

slowly getting back on track, after the fire we where in a temporary place, now we have found a place and I am slowly getting things set back up, the studio is built but the garage is a mess and its getting cold out side, so when I have my other computer set back up I then can get back into recording and learning

I am really glad that you are getting back on track! It must be really hard to get your life set all over again! Take your time and I am looking forward to have you back!

Thanks, so I was looking into phrasing and I was watching a video, and the guy said I need to know the fret board inside and out, I have been playing with the G major scale, the E minor scale and A Dorian scale, I was using a site that plays chord progressions, I was trying to make it work, I will try to get a video in the next few days to show you what I have been doing

Sounds great! I am looking forward to hear what you will come up with!

It sounded very good! Nice additions of classical music! Very well done! I think you can develop it a little bit more towards the middle and than drop it back to the beginning melody!
I like the whole idea a lot also would be cool if you can upload the backing track so I can give you some suggestions about the arrangement!

To develop it more I need to take a better look at what Im using and what Im doing, the backing is a simple progression, lets look at the scale shapes Im using and make better use of them, the shapes are

G Major Ionian


G Major Dorian


E Minor - Note: I can not provide a good look at the shape due to its location and given positions on the scale generator so for now I will build it in the A Minor location, here it is


where to go from here, how to build from this?

I would Like to add one more that I have been learning

B - Phrigan

The second scale called A dorian not G major Dorian
Dorian is a minor mode
So where you go from here you starting to combine all this positions together all modes are part of the same scale the only difference is starting note but Flats and Sharps will be the same!
Try to do this first lets take
A dorian and B phrygian and combine them
here is an example

As you can see I combined them together
You can use those notes in any order! Let me know if it make sense
I will also record an example for you in a little bit I am having technical difficulties with my card but it should be fixed in a few days

I did notice that I had wrote A Dorian Wrong after I added the last scale, I took a look at the scale you made and modified it a little and came up with this

Yep this is a correct A Dorian scale but for some reason you have 4 notes on a fifth string? It is common but might be harder to use especially if you are trying to develop speed picking

Is there suppose to be 2 F# notes 1 right after another?

No it should be like that:


When you are creating a scale you need to play each note one after another
You will get:
A- B - C - D - E - F# - G

I was gunna ask a question about this and went to quote it and notice there was suppose to be a youtube link, hope this works




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if it worked there should be a youtube video here



the attachments are the music theory notes that you gave me, looks like something I would have to play on a piano

I don't see any attachments can you please reupload? Thank you!

the question is about the left hand and the right hand, playing on a piano
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Every thing I want to learn, how chords are made, I know the major and minor chords, scales/Modes, melodies, Rhythm Guitar,Licks, song building, Music styles, What ever you can teach me

Well it is a lot of information for such a short period of time! The program will be closed in two weeks so let's concentrate on one topic that is the most important to you!
Let me know what it would be!

what happens to all this stuff we wrote? maybe you can give me a bunch of lessons to learn?

Hmmm I am not sure what will happen to it I will ask Bogdan about it