Duty Calls
Oh I do so love XKCD. While I don’t normally post links to comics, this one makes a great point… one I could stand to learn. So I decided to give it it’s own blog entry.
Credit: Duty Calls (xkcd.com)
Secondary Subdominants? …and other harmonic devices
I’ve been working on a lot of music lately. Sometimes, ideas and concepts come from unusual places. This time, it came from software.
I was trying out Sibelius, an excellent music notation program. I usually don’t go about writing music in a transcription app, but I was dragging notes around on the staff when ideas came to me, so I went with it.
Trav’s Diagonal Scale Method (w/examples)
It was recently asked of me by a former student how I play multi-octave scales on the guitar. The answer involves a seven-note scale system I developed about 10 years ago while a in college. With it, I can fly up and down the neck relatively easily. I’m sure someone else on earth – probably many individuals – have the same scale system since it’s based on basic common sense. So, I thought I’d blog it for the rest of the world to enjoy.
Die, Barney, DIE!!
Here’s a comic I drew in high school. For posterity. I really had a high degree of Barney hate, as you can no doubt tell.
