Fareed Haque
MathGames New Year Shows MathGames is taking a few months off from the road to finish up the Studio CD, Mathtronica. Our last all night sessions at IV Labs were rippin’! Thanks to ROLLIN WEARY FOR MAKIN IT ALL SOUND…
Summertime Shows! Hey there fellow MathGamers! Fareed’s latest project continues to pick up steam in greater-than-anticipated fashion, with new shows being added. July has an ambitious tour of the West capped with a festival appearance outside of IL late in…
Scales are the basis for the creation of chords and melodies. They are alos useful for worknig on guitar technique and they will help you develop an understanding of how keys work. Generally speaking, scales are NOT used in improvisation.…
Learning jazz chords on the guitar has always been very intimidating. Most books give you pages and pages of chord diagrams to memorize and very little in the way of explanation as to how to use these chords. When I…
Advanced. A mandala is a geometric pattern that, when meditated upon, initiates a high trance state. Larry has succeeded in creating a mandala in music. A simple motif is repeated and developed by adding either one note or one rest…
There are a few basic principles that need to ALWAYS be applied to avoid injury, and develop virtuoso technique. What is Virtuosity? One of the most striking examples of virtuosity on the classical guitar is John Williams’ version of “El…
Music is a language very much like spoken language. Since we are al lmore or less fluent in at least one spaken language, we can use that knowledge as a guide to learning musical languages. Any time you are confused…
These are three lovely, short pieces of intermediate to advanced difficulty. Nice encores.
Two Pieces for Solo Guitar by Paquito D’Rivera Improvalsation Vals Venezolano As performed by Fareed on Paquito’s Havana Cafe
Suite in D major by Benedetto Marcello Adagio Allegro Allegro Vivace These rarely heard suites for harpsichord are beautiful on the guitar. Not too hard, but with a virtuosic flair; Very melodic, sort of Scarlatti meets Vivaldi. More suites to…