Category Archives: Lessons

iPracticeMyMusic Player V3.0 Brings Exciting New Features

Amparosoft’s iPracticeMyMusic Player version 3.0 brings a whole lot of improvements and amazing new features, such as a new piano view and our own innovation in music visualization: scale degrees/functions for harmonic analysis. New Features: Piano view Scale degrees/functions -harmonic information Video tracks with multiple audios Fretboard view can now be displayed on top of

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Rhythm Awareness Lesson 4: Triplets and Syncopation

Download the tab for this lesson: http://www.amparosoft.com/lgpl_downloads/lessons/Rhythm Awareness Lesson 4 Triplets and Syncopation.pdf As promised at the end of our last lesson, this time we’re going to learn how to count, read and play triplets. As you recall, a quarter-note beat can be evenly split into two eighth notes (“one and”) or four 16th notes

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Rhythmic Awareness Lesson 2 – The Fundamentals

Download the Tab for this lesson: http://www.amparosoft.com/lgpl_downloads/lessons Every musician should have a clear understanding of the fundamentals of rhythm. Even if you consider yourself an “ear player,” knowing how to count and play different rhythms while keeping a steady beat is a valuable skill that will help you in a variety of real-life musical situations. By

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Rhythmic Awareness lesson 1 – Guthrie Govan

Five major areas of guitar playing: Rhythmic awareness Harmonic awareness Fretboard knowledge Vocabulary Development of ideas Rhythm is probably the most important aspect of playing a musical instrument. Most players tend to ignore this all important skill and spend their time developing technique. Technique is very important, but worthless if you don’t know how to

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