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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…

Playing Scales on the Guitar

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.…

Building Jazz Chords – A Simple Approach

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…

Mandala

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…

A Natural Approach To Chops, Speed and Virtuosity

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…