Official Great Scores Blog Launch
Welcome to our official blog launch.
We want this blog to be about you, the customer. We invite your feedback and active participation, be that in suggesting new ideas for tutorials, guides, sheet music, videos, or in answering your (sheet) music specific questions.
We already have a few plans in mind with regards following on from our videos on our youtube page.
Our Jerry Lee Lewis Boogie with it’s tutorial and videos has proved extremely popular:
Click here for the sheet music.
Following on from that we added a Rock’n’Roll licks collection with 4 video tutorials and accompanying sheet music download, here is the first of those four videos:
Click here for the sheet music.
We are planning on doing more of these instructional videos that include accompanying pieces/guides as downloads.
We have already had the suggestion to create a piece from the Rock’n’Roll licks collection (thank you Hendrik).
Further ideas include a guide to how music works – but not your usual boring theory guide, but a more practical view on harmony, and how you can use this knowledge to fully understand music (it’s easier than you think). This series of guides would enable you to work pieces out from your ipod yourself.
Other plans include guides on improvisation, walking bass lines, time signatures, etc, but of course we will try to make these fun.
We’ll also try to answer any questions, and have regular Q&A sessions. To get things started, here is a little teaser question. You often come across bars of music that seem to have many more beats in them, than the time signature suggests. How is this possible?
Here is an “easier” example to solve; there seem to be eight beats of music in the right hand, when there should be four:
For the more seasoned pros, here is a more difficult one. There appear to be two beats missing in the left hand, and extra quavers (8th notes) in the right hand, but 6 of them, plus a minim (half notes) and some strange note that seems to be a minim (half note) and a quaver (8th note) at the same time on beat 3:
Now it’s over to you, suggestions on upcoming guides, videos, sheet music and answers to our little teaser question are very welcome.
Take care
Lincoln
February 7th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
I think this is REALLY COOL! I want to see more and more of the music with tutorials linked to the music. It is such an asset to any teacher and expands the realm of teaching beyond the studio, where time is always limited.
It would be great to see a list of pieces with tutorials and be able to link them to my lesson notes so that parents can purchase the music at home and children can learn on their own. I have many older students working on pieces, outside the studio, on their own – using You Tube video. The problem is, there are so many tutorials that are hard to understand. So, if you can provide the tutorials in the professional manner that I saw today – WOW the sky is the limit for the students.
February 8th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
I really LOVE the idea of this. I’m just so into Jazz, and I would really LOVE to learn how to improvise. I’ve already watched all of the Jerry-Lee-Lewis-tutorials, and they’ve really helped me.
Now I’m the coolest kid in class, cause all my mates just love that tune, but I would really love to learn how to IMPROVISE, so to be able to play them something new every time.
These tutorials are REALLY EASY to understand, just unlike the rest of them on Youtube.
Also, I downloaded all these videos from Youtube onto my iPod, because then I can just watch the tutorials without having my Laptop on, on this tiny little iPod device, which is really cool.
That brings me to the question:
Why not make a Jazz-Improvisation-Podcast, with new lessons every week or so, that would be so cool!