Utterly Integral: Playing by Ear with Steve Lawson
Steve Lawson is one of the world’s leading solo bassists and a forward-thinking music educator. Here’s his ear training advice.
The Secret Aural Life of Drummers (or "How to Play Percussion by Ear, Confessions of a Rhythm Queen"!)
Next up in our playing-by-ear series, we have another of our “home team”: Easy Ear Training author Sabrina Peña Young, sharing her perspective on playing percussion by ear. Rhythm is more than a drum set backing a jazz band, an excited crowd clapping in...
Ear Training Site Profile: JazzGuitar.be
Continuing in our series of ear training site profiles… Jazzguitar.be is a particularly multifaceted resource for any jazz musician, but it’s a goldmine for guitarists at a beginning to intermediate stage of jazz training. Featuring a dense list of lessons—from...
Ear Training Site Profile: DLP Music Program
Continuing in our series of ear training site profiles… We’ve covered the Dallas School of Music’s innovative “Discover, Learn and Play” online training program here on the site before, including a recent guest post by Eugene Cantara from...Bass Tone Podcast
Discover the ins and outs of the sound of the bass guitar in this series dedicated to the lowest of the lows. Upright bass, electric bass, fretless bass, acoustic bass. Bass amps and bass audio effects. Tune your ears to all things bass! Read the series View the...Future Technologies for Music Education – guest post by Eugene Cantera, DLP
Today we’re excited to bring you a guest post from Eugene Cantera, partner at the Dallas School of Music, whose innovative Discover, Learn, and Play training system is helping lead the way in learning music, instruments and ear training online. At DSM we often...
Bass Tone Podcast 6: Bass FX, Part 2
In episode 6 of the Bass Tone podcast, Bass FX Part 2, Nick Long explores some more unusual effects you can add to your bass tone. You’ll learn:
• What modulation effects are and how they work
• The Chorus and Flanger effects and how they impact your tone
• The sound of Wah-Wah effects, and why they combine well with distortion effects
• Pitch-shifter effects (including octaver effects)
Bass Tone: Bass Effects, Part 2
Learn all about audio effects for bass guitar, including modulation, octave, pitch shift, wah-wah, chorus and flanger/phaser. How to hear them and why to learn.
Listen to Les, Part 1: The Gibson "Les Paul"
Ask a guitarist to name five famous Les Paul players and you’ll probably get Slash, Jimmy Page, Pete Townsend and Joe Perry… and maybe Ace Frehley, or the late great Gary Moore. There’s plenty of players to choose from: a quick look at the Gibson website reveals...
Triads and Chord Inversions On The Guitar
Connect your chord ear training with your guitar playing by practising major, minor, diminished and augmented triad chords and their inversions on guitar.
Guitar Interval Practice: Learn to Recognize Intervals
Intervals are the building blocks of the vital musical sense of relative pitch. Find out how you can do interval ear training as part of your guitar practice.
Bass Tone Podcast 5: Bass FX, Part 1
In episode 5 of the Bass Tone podcast, Bass FX Part 1, Nick Long covers the most frequently used audio effects for the bass guitar. You’ll learn all about:
• Equalization (EQ), the cornerstone of a good effects chain
• Compression and Limiting to even out playing dynamics
• Multiband Compression
• Distortion, Overdrive and Fuzz Effects
