Are you serious?

Speechless.




Unbelievable.

Good luck on the musical journey!  -Steve
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Joe Satriani....this time his music!

Last post we heard some words of wisdom from Joe. Now lets check out a tune.  A personal fave: Cool #9

The jamming turns into the actual song at about 3:30 so give it a chance to get going...





Man, what a great groove!


Good luck on the musical journey!  -Steve
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Jonathan Reuel...

Jonathan has been a really good friend of mine for a number of years. He is a fantastic singer songwriter with a great sense of rhythm.  One of the things that I appreciate about his music is his passion. He plays from the heart and soul.   When he plays live it is never the same twice. He is also just as comfortable with a full rocking band as he is performing solo with an acoustic guitar.  He is working on a new project which will most likely include this song:


Untitled from Justin Clemons on Vimeo.


It's still a work in progress but I love where it's going.

If you are drawn to that kind of music I would encourage you to check out his album "Now" by clicking here. That album  contains some tracks that I think are amazing.   I have had the privilege of playing with Jonathan multiple times, he is just a really great guy.

Good luck on the musical journey!  -Steve Official website Guitarlessonswylietexas.com

Btw- another really good friend of mine, Justin Clemons shot the video, you can find more about him here.  Justin is an amazing photographer/videographer.

Coldplay

This is a great song, and a great lesson on why learning chords is important!



Those high vocal notes at the end always give me the chills.

Good luck on the musical journey!  -Steve

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This is just funny....

Good luck on the musical journey!  -Steve
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More S.R.V.

Let's here a little from Stevie in this post...

SRV interview with Modern Guitar

You’re able to stand back from a solo and be objective enough and know when you’ve captured the moment?

SRV: Yeah, when it’s right, I get chill bumps and things when it feels good.

How far from the blues would you stray? Would you do a pop tune?

SRV: To be honest with you, I’m not sure what a pop tune is. I’m sure if I hear it on the radio, I’d say that’s pop or this or that. But, really, what I pay attention to the most is just music that moves me. It’s all at least a root-type music instead of a formula.

Good words from a legend!  Make sure the music moves you!  

-Steve

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S.R.V.

I love this song!  Crank it up at 1:20 when he goes into his solo!




- Steve

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Emusictheory.com

Today I want to talk about a cool free web resource. This is perfect because in the last post, I posted an article talking about the benefits of learning to read music.

The website is emusictheory.com.

Emusictheory is site that has great drills that can really help in the process of learning to read music.  You will not have access to all of the resources for free, but you will have access to some really cool stuff. You can find the free drills here.  My personal favorites are Note Names, Paced Note Names, Guitar Frets, Rhythm Performance, and Chord functions.

Each drill will have a settings option.  Make sure you pick the treble clef since we are playing guitar. On most of them you can also adjust the difficulty and select or omit any notes you want to add or take away. For example, when you are first starting you might only pick natural notes.

I hope that you get a chance to check it out, I have found it to be very valuable!

Good luck on the musical journey!

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Music and Math?

Did you know learning to read music can actually help students with math?

"Now that the school year has kicked in full force, many parents look to November as back-to-school night when they meet their children's teachers for the first time and get an assessment of how well or poorly their little juniors are doing. Historically, the subject of math has provided ample cause for concern as many students lag in this subject and struggle. Yet one secret to better grades is quite simple: let your kids play music.

Yes that is correct. Let your kids play music. Let them take up a musical instrument. Whether they choose to learn violin or piano, or little rocker Johnny wants to be like Eddie Van Halen and rip through the Eruption solo, does not matter. The important thing is that they begin to learn some instrument. This will definitely improve their math grades because of the intimate relationship between music and mathematics.

Learning a musical instrument will expose your child to learn to read music. Beside strengthening hand-eye coordination, which is always a good thing, learning to read music will strongly improve your child's ability to work with fractions." 

You can read the rest of the article here

Pretty cool huh? - Steve

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