Background For about 9 years I’ve been using the MusicPad Pro as a way to view my sheet music rather than carry around dozens of books of music. The MusicPad is a 10×14 inch tablet with only 1022×766 resolution at I believe 72 (possibly 96) dpi. It weighs nearly 5 pounds. All it did was… [Read more…]
January 3, 2012
Modes and Scales A video introducing scales and modes is now available on YouTube. Hope you and enjoy and as always, your comments & suggestions are welcome.
December 24, 2011
Free music For the 2011 Christmas and holiday season, we have some free, full-length, mp3 files available as our present to our readers. Download them here They are available for a limited time. If you are reading this and different titles are available, no worries, the titles listed below are always available in our music… [Read more…]
October 6, 2011
Another in our Introduction to Chords video series is now on YouTube. This video takes a look at chord progressions – the flow of chords from one type to the other. Comments and more importantly, suggestions for future videos are welcome. Enjoy the series.
September 30, 2011
Part 5 of our introduction to chord series is now available on youtube. This video talks about altered chords, sus and added note chords (eg. C6/9) Hope you enjoy it.
September 21, 2011
Part 4 of our continuing introduction to chords series is now available on youtube. In this video we introduce chord inversions of chords and voicing of chords. As always, your comments and suggestions for future videos are welcome.
September 16, 2011
Another look at practicing the piano. This time for intermediate to advanced level students. This is one approach to practicing the piano. It is by no means meant to be the only way. Use this as a supplement to other ways of practicing. Before You Play Look through the piece of music and look for… [Read more…]
September 12, 2011
Part 3 of our ongoing series about chords is now available on YouTube. In this video we talk about Augmented and Diminished chords. You can think of Diminished chords as minor chords with a flat-5th. You can think of Augmented chords as major chords with a sharp-5th. When adding 7ths to diminished chords, in order… [Read more…]
September 7, 2011
Part two of my continuing video tutorials about chords is now available on YouTube: This video gives an intro to chords that have more than 3 notes, like 7th and 9th chords. Any comments or questions, feel free to ask.
September 1, 2011
I’ve started a new video series on my YouTube channel. The first part of an introduction to chords is there. The major and minor chord charts shown in the video are available for download in the Free Titles section of the music catalog: www.jamesgilbertmusic.com/catalog.php There are also some other chord related files there that will… [Read more…]
April 16, 2012
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