Popular at weddings and funerals alike, this perennial favourite has some interesting changes within its meagre 63 bars of music. Its not...

Enharmonic equivalent scales are not to be confused with equivalent scales. An equivalent scale is a scale or mode that is built upon the...

In part one I covered good modal substitutes for the Dorian mode. Just in case some of you misunderstand, I do not mean the Dorian...

I don’t know about you, but I realised something profound years ago when watching the movie Crossroads with Ralph Macchio. The premise is...

Just in case some of you are unaware, I created a group specifically on the subject of music using capos and bridges. Its public, and I...

I have recently been asked this a few times either in the comments or by personal messages so I thought I would clarify and help everyone...

The Byzantine scale is better known as the Double Harmonic mode, mode V of Hungarian minor. Its formula is 1 b2 3 4 5 b6 7 and in the A...

As many of you know, the Dorian mode is played over a minor chord, or the relative bass note and contains the fundamental characteristic...

The first post in this series looked at the point in the music of Bach’s double violin concerto BWV1043 where a lump in the throat...

Before I head off back into the fathomless depths of Takemitsu’s All In Twilight, I thought I would just post an analysis on this short...

I am setting forth how to use the Modal Method for composition, improvisation and analysis and will start with the basics first, which is...

NB: I am reposting this as it seems to have disappeared from the group. I have come across a piece of music for classical guitar by Peter...

Hi everyone, I am working on uploading a score to musescore so I can share the music with everyone and also be the first to play it as it...

This fugue is standard repertoire for guitarists. A closer look shows that Bach uses a series of sequences for his sound in this piece,...

For those of you that are into playing with capos, spider capos and passarelle bridges you will be pleased to hear that I have just...

Continuing this series I am now looking at the second of four movements following the first movement covered in the previous post. Much...

The whole tone scale has a symmetrical pattern of notes separated by a tone, this is called Mode I of limited transposition by Messiaen,...

I have an interesting experience to relate to you that happened to me last week. After a gig had finished, I was packing up and the...

In this series my focus is on the four movement piece from 1989 by Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu. By now you are familiar with my...

In this first post of the series I shall focus on Messiaen’s Mode III. Its formula is as follows: 1 2 b3 3 #4 5 b6 b7 7 And in C it is: C...