Retrospective #3: An Index of Posts on Michael Acoustic
Posts 9-12 Music theory as the "language" musicians use to talk to each other, how scales are constructed from a root note, how chords are constructed from scale notes, and some hand jive.
This is the third in a series of posts that “index” some topic groupings over the past year of Michael Acoustic. I’m only including the main Friday posts, not the Thursday “teaser” posts. All posts in chronological order can be found at the Archive.
Note: SubStack was having server issues yesterday afternoon (my time, anyway) so I was only able to do one of these yesterday. I’m going to try to put out two a day until we get to a month or so ago in the archive in order to make it a little easier to find past stuff that’s interesting to you, and, I suppose, avoid past stuff that’s not.
Post #9 - Here’s where we really start down the music theory road with an imaginary band talking out how we’re going to play the song we’re about to rehearse. What language are we using? The musician’s language, all rooted in music theory, from the simple to complex. Don’t be scared!
Posts # 9.5 & 10 - I had to include the Thursday teaser on this one because it contained a chart that was supposed to help. Then the next day I had to correct a mistake I made and do a lot of tap dancing. How scales are constructed from a root note according to a formula. Why the C scale is unique. AMaj scale on the guitar.
Post# 11 - This is the basis of the chords we play in chord progressions that are “in” a certain key. When we talk with other musicians and say “It’s in C” or “It’s in Bb”, we mean the chords in that key that are by the “rules” native to the key because the formula says they are. We break the rules all the time by using other chords, but it helps to know what the actual rules are, so you can break them wisely. Just sayin’.
Post# 12 - More on how the most basic three-note (triad) chords are constructed, and the silliest way to figure it out from scratch (but it works!).
Cheers and keep playing!
Michael Acoustic