Here are all the posts from the first ‘Pages From A Notebook’ series. Enjoy!
- Diminished #1
- Diminished #2
- Diminished #3
- Diminished #4
- Diminished #5
- Practice Method
- Practice Method #2
- Thinking
- Imagination
- Harmonic Arrangement
- Harmonic Arrangement #2
- Rhythmic Possibilities: Triplets
- Rhythmic Possibilities: 16th notes
- Rhythmic Possibilities: Groups of 5/Quintuplets
- Look For Patterns
- Know Your Intervals: Thirds
- Practice Page #1
- What if you only have 10 minutes to practise?
- How to be a great accompanist
- 3 Ways of Knowing
- Linear Connections #1
- Linear Connections #2
- Linear Connections #3
- Linear Connections #4
- Learn the Cycle of 4ths
- Directed Listening
- Scales in Intervals #1
- Scales in Intervals #2
- Scales in Intervals #3
- Scales in Intervals #4
- Scales in Intervals #5
- Scales in Intervals #6
- Scales in Intervals #7
- Practice Page #2
- Collaborate
- Minor Pentatonics on Giant Steps
- Learn a Blues in Every Key
- Harmonic Cycles #1
- Harmonic Cycles #2
- Harmonic Cycles #3
- Harmonic Cycles #4
- Root Note Solo
- Triad Pairs
- Phrasing Arc
- Moving Rhythmic Values
- Negative Space, Playing Space
- How to work on your sight-reading
- Form 100
- Learn one tune well
- No Repeat Voicings
- Magic Moments
- Chords from another planet
- Mellifluous Melody
- Reading Between the Lines
- Play Quieter
- Don’t learn shapes
- Play. No Pitches
- Your Voice. The Voice.
- Harmonic Minor Chord Scale
- Contribute
- Initiation Speed
- How to Learn the Notes on the Fretboard
- Tchaichordsky
- Stacked Diminished Chords
- Resolve all notes in C
- Resolve all notes not in C
- Don’t practise what you already know.
- Separate the bullshit from the bottom line
- Arpeggio Exercise
- Sus 4 resolutions in C Major
- 3 Minute Warm Up
- Dyad Comping in D Dorian #1
- Dyad Comping in D dorian #2
- Over Analyse – Under Analyse
- The Bag
- Control of the Pick
- 7th Chord Inversions. II V I
- Do a transcription
- Playing dominant chords with upper structure triads
- Happy Ear Day
- Nuance
- Triplet Picking Exercise in Odd Groupings
- Awareness
If you’ve enjoyed any of those posts, here are some more things from me that you might like:
- Pages From A Notebook Vol.2 – 81 more music lessons
- The Jewel Box Vol.1 – 29 guitar lessons
- Longer Essays – More thoughts on music & imagination
- ElectricCampfire.com – I lead an online community of 500 guitarists who are rabidly fanatical about jazz guitar, improvisation, and music :)
- My Music – Here are around 20 recordings for you to check out.