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Thankyou…and now I’d like to take a brief few moments of your precious time to let you know just what we’re planning.

  • Week by week discussion on a wide range of musical topics relating to piano and guitar [click to continue…]

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Tip of the day – Practice for pristine fast passages: Raised Fingers

20 January 2012

Raised fingers in slow scale practice. If you’ve ever listened to the great pianists play, it’s dazzling how pristine their single line fast passages are. Magical and pearl like evenness. The solution to this is the raised fingers approach in scale practice.  When practicing scales and arpeggios slowly (and you should be practicing them slowly), raise each finger above the note before striking it, [...]

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Jazz Chord Reperotire – 7th Chord Inversions – String Set 6,4,3,2 – Part I

28 November 2011

Howdy there you plunkers! It’s time to dust off the old Jazz box and prepare to launch yourself upon that excruciating voyage of musical discovery par excellence – that’s right, it’s time to learn your Jazz chords in all inversions!!! However, in the interest of limiting the torture to merely modest levels of agony, I’ve [...]

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5 Crucial Practice Methods to be able to play Funky Piano

9 August 2011

When you hear the pros playing funky with great rhythmic feel and continual variation they sound awesome. The best players seem un-phased by the complex coordination and endurance required to play this material. Since it can seem intimidating trying to fathom how to acquire these skills and start sounding as good as the pros, I’ve [...]

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Jazz Transcription Resource

7 August 2011

Greetings fellow music lovers. As you no doubt know, or should do if you’ve been learning jazz, transcribing, learning and analysing the solos of the greats is one of the best ways to get your improv skills cooking. However in my experience a lot of people seem to get put off attempting this – perhaps [...]

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Paul Burton piano tutorials

7 August 2011

Hey folks, I just wanted to big up Paul Burton for making such great tutorials on youtube. He’s a fantastic pianist as you can hear on his channel, and he’s also done some fantastic tutorials on learning some wonderful but advanced piece of the repertoire. His insights and ideas about practice methods are are really [...]

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Transferable Skills I (or how to own on the guitar in record time)

10 June 2011

  Hey folks…it’s me again…time to settle down guitar in time with a nice cup of tea and a biccy and listen to my words of wisdom… No but seriously… today I want to have a chat with you all about the usefulness of transferable skills, specifically transferable skills on the guitar, more specifically guitar [...]

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Roleplaying for Guitarists (or 101 things you can do with a guitar)

10 June 2011

Hey folks…I’m back again and I’m here to tell you about all the wonderful things you can do with a guitar! Seriously…aside from music you can employ it for a variety of manual tasks such as improvising a hammer, a cricket bat or even going as far as Antonio Banderas’ character in “Once Upon a [...]

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5 Perfect Practice Points to Picking Perfection (or “What to should I be practicing on the guitar???”)

10 June 2011

  So you’ve finally decided to take learning the guitar seriously? Good for you! You love the music, you’re enthusiastic and you’re raring to go… Or maybe you find yourself longing to play well but daunted amount of information about how to play….we are living after all in the information age! Fortunately for the daunted, [...]

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Cooking with a Splash of Jazz!

6 June 2011

Howdy Again…this is starting to become habit forming…This week on the KNSounds – installment one of my multi-part mini-epic on Jazz-a-matizing your playing. Now…I know what you’re thinking: “Jazz is well hard!” (and if you’re not thinking that you’re wrong!). But that doesn’t mean you can’t add a meaningful pinch of Jazz to spice up [...]

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More 50s Rhythm Guitar – Muted Arpeggio Strums

6 June 2011

Hey folks…staying again in the 50s vein, I have your next rhythm installment! In this episode we’re going to learn a classic R-Guitar technique – what I have dubed the (palm) muted Arpeggio Strum! Despite the awkward name, this little baby is great for those 1950s ballad situations where our teenage hero is declaring his [...]

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