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Free Lessons

Making the boring more interesting

Posted on April 26, 2011June 18, 2019 by Greg Howlett

Ideas for improving the patterns you play in your music.

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Posted in Free Lessons  |  Tagged arranging, rhythm, texture
Free Lessons

A great battle about music from history (Part 2)

Posted on April 25, 2011June 18, 2019 by Greg Howlett

More on the debate between mysticism and reason in music.

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Posted in Free Lessons  |  Tagged music history
Free Lessons

Polychords made easy? (Maybe not)

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Greg Howlett

Polychords are just chords stacked on each other, or you could say they are just extended chords (chords with 9ths, 11ths and 13ths).

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Posted in Free Lessons  |  Tagged chord substitutions, color tones, extended chords, polychords, reharmonization
Free Lessons

A great battle about music from history (Part 1)

Posted on April 17, 2011June 18, 2019 by Greg Howlett

There is much to learn about music philosophy and theology from an unlikely source: the science of tuning a piano.

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Posted in Free Lessons  |  Tagged music history
Free Lessons

Playing songs in different keys for a different sound

Posted on April 15, 2011June 18, 2019 by Greg Howlett

Should you pick a key signature for a song based on the way that key sounds? Or is that just a myth?

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Posted in Free Lessons  |  Tagged arranging, performance
Free Lessons

Do you always need to hear the melody in your arrangements?

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Greg Howlett

The short answer is no.

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Posted in Free Lessons  |  Tagged arranging, improvisation, melody
Thoughts

The futility of the "Etsy" way

Posted on April 6, 2011June 18, 2019 by Greg Howlett

Business advice for small businesses.

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Posted in Thoughts  |  Tagged business
Free Lessons

How we find democracy in modern music

Posted on April 3, 2011June 18, 2019 by Greg Howlett

A big concept but an important one to understand.

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Posted in Free Lessons  |  Tagged improvisation, music history
Free Lessons

It is a marathon

Posted on March 31, 2011June 18, 2019 by Greg Howlett

Someone that purchased my instructional DVDs called me yesterday to ask a few questions about accompanying.  He said he had watched that course a few times since buying it last week and was still confused.  I gave him a few tips and then asked him how old he was.  He is 14. At that point, […]

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Posted in Free Lessons  |  Tagged life lessons, motivation
Thoughts

Money as a yardstick

Posted on March 24, 2011June 18, 2019 by Greg Howlett

My thoughts on a fascinating article from Slate.

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Posted in Thoughts  |  Tagged finance, life lessons
Thoughts

You are the loved one

Posted on March 14, 2011June 18, 2019 by Greg Howlett

Over the weekend, I found myself in a racially-diverse church in San Antonio.  It did not take me long to understand how they make it work.

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Posted in Thoughts  |  Tagged life lessons
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