I think its time to discuss the nuts of bolts of music, so here I am focusing on the frequency of A at 432 Hz and how we arrive at such a...

This is the universal rule in life and music is no exception: Everybody sucks at everything at first. Now, we can see the development of...

(I prefer to use Five ways to modulate to the 2nd degree minor key but Supertonic has a catchier title and moreover, I think being aware...

Here is an interesting way of developing perfect pitch which I have discovered by accident. I have been practising improvising over...

In this final instalment in this series I am looking at the first movement, the allegro. There are many points of interest including wild...

I am continuing this series with eagerness focusing on the fifth movement marked Con Slancio. This follows the previous posts that...

This is the third and final instalment in this series and will look at the final movement of Brouwer’s work published in 1983. It is far...

Right, this group is now active, welcome to all and I am going to start by posting a duet I have arranged with my partner in crime Tony...

In this series of posts I will be discussing the merits of substituting one or more scales for another when soloing. I am using the...

I thought I would share with my readers a technique that I often employ, although only with the more advanced of my students, that really...

The focus of this instalment is the second movement of EDC. It’s a great study in mimicking the properties of an echo and needs some...

In the first of this series I am analysing the modal approach that Brouwer takes in his three movement piece. As mentioned in my...

Recently, I started an analysis of El Decameron Negro by Brouwer and within half a page of work I noticed the similarity with Takemitsu’s...

For those of you unaware of the details of pitch axis theory, the idea is basically to connect scales or their modes via an unchanging,...

Hi everyone, I just wanted to announce that I have launched a new facebook group that is focused on duets for guitar and ukulele only....

Following on from the previous two posts that covered the second and third movements of Walton’s bagatelles, this post will shine a light...

In this instalment I take a look at the final movement of TT’s In The Woods, Muir Woods. There is an interesting underlying connection of...

Yes, it does sound like science fiction. The Phlegmatic minor scale (1 b2 bb3 b4 b5 bb6 7), no. 21 in The Modal Method, is reached by the...

Continuing on in this series of posts, I am now going to give my 5 favourite ways of changing from the Major key to its parallel minor, C...

In this second post of the series I am looking at movement III, Alla Cubana. This piece is divided into three sections, the first two...