Most songs are written in a certain key, such as C or Eb. This means that that the chords and melody notes will be drawn primarily from the scale of that chord. In other words, if a song is written in the key of E major, then the notes and chords will be constructed primarily from the E major scale.
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MIDI, developed around 1982, stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. It’s original intention was to let 2 or more synthesizers communicate with one another. Since then it has grown in popularity and can do much more than just hook two keyboards together.
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Things you’ll need:
1. A guitar (Acoustic or Electric)
2. A slide (made of metal or glass)
Ideally, for slide playing, your guitar should have higher action than normal. Higher action means your strings should be fairly high off the guitar’s fretboard. This allows good clean and clear sounding notes. If you have low action, your slide work could end up sounding like a kid raking an oak stick across a picket fence. Clack, clack, clack, etc. Don’t worry if your guitar has low action and you don’t want to change it. If you use a really light touch, slide work can still be pulled off.
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Sometimes you may select a patch on your keyboard named “Killer Sax” and start to jam. Yuck! Why doesn’t it sound like a sax? Is your keyboard lame? Or are you doing something wrong? This lesson will suggest a few tips that I’ve learned over the years for making your keyboard sound more like another instrument.
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So you have a guitar now and you’re ready to take over the world. But…wait a second. The guitar’s out of tune and you have no idea how tune it! Never fear! Allegro Music World is here. There are many tunings for a guitar and actually several ways to tune a guitar. In this lesson, we will focus on standard tuning (the most widely used tuning) and just a few tuning methods.
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