Enharmonic Spellings of Minor Thirds

Continuing with the Enharmonic Spellings Groove Thang! I’m not joking all this note taking will turn into a mega-project on Advanced Guitar Player – the Music Theory section is gonna start kicking ass! Ok . . . let’s go with the enharmonic spellings of Minor Thirds! Cb – Ebb C – Eb C# – E [...]

Enharmonic Spellings of Major Thirds

More of same. As I said in an earlier post, this blog is really a notebook for Advanced Guitar Player .. . Cb – Eb C – E C# – E# Db – F D – F# D# – Fx (I’ll just use a straight x for double sharp, for now!) Ebb – Gb Eb [...]

Enharmonic Spellings of Perfect Fourths

Okay . . . still inspired by David Lucas Burge’s approach to intervals, let’s have a look at Perfect Fourths. Rather than commenting, I’ll just asterisk the improbable ones. Cb – Fb C – F C# – F# Db – Gb D – G D# – G# Eb – Ab E – A E# – [...]

Enharmonic Spellings of Perfect Fifths

Just thought I’d make a note of the enharmonic spellings of all the Perfect Fifths – you never know when this kind of thing will come in handy! Cb – Gb C – G C# – G# Db – Ab D – A D# – A# Eb – Bb E – B E# – B# [...]

Musical Terminology For Ear Training

I’m still with David Lucas Burge’s Relative Pitch Ear Training Course and I have to say that he comes up with some real gems, particularly when it comes to musical terminology. The basic question is Why Do We Have To Learn It? Well, quite simply we want to be able to communicate with other musicians. [...]

David Lucas Burge’s Relative Pitch Ear Training Course

A friend from El Taller de Músics leant me David Lucas Burge’s Relative Pitch Ear Training Course – a five CD set – and I’ve spent most of today listening to the first lessons on Perfect Fifths, Perfect Fourths and Major Thirds – all intervals I’m pretty comfortable with or so I thought . . [...]

Advanced Chord Identification in EarMaster Pro

As I’m planning to review it for Advanced Guitar Player, I’ve just been messing about with some of Ear Master Pro’s more Advanced Ear Training features for guitarists and I came across this Chord Identification exercise – very handy, I thought, Definitely not for beginners, though! Click Here To Download an Trial Evaluation Copy of [...]

Ear Training Software – EarMaster

As I’m working on Guitar Ear Training for Advanced Guitar Player, I thought I’d check out some Ear Training software – I came across Ear Master. It looks quite good and I’ll be downloading an Evaluation copy in order to check it out. I think the basic problem with software is that it’s difficult to [...]

Example Ear Training Guitar Tab

Just thought I’d load up an image of the Advanced Guitar Ear Training tabs to show you all how professional they look – I’m pretty pleased myself! Beautifully programmed in Guitar Pro 6 – check it out by clicking on this link!

Guitar Ear Training Course Goes Live Today

I’m probably jumping the gun (as usual) but the Free Guitar Ear Training Course – it’s called Perfect Your Pitch, by the way – will be available from the Downloads section of Advanced Guitar Player.So go to the site and Download it NOW! It’s been programmed in Guitar Pro 6 and is the first instalment [...]