Continuing with the Enharmonic Spellings Groove Thang! I’m not joking all this note taking will turn into a mega-project on Advanced Guitar Player - the Music Theory section is gonna start kicking ass!

Ok . . . let’s go with the enharmonic spellings of Minor Thirds!

Cb – Ebb

C – Eb

C# – E

Db – Fb

D – F

D# – F#

Eb – Gb

E – G

E# – G#

Fb – Abb

F – Ab

F# – A

F## – A#

Gb – Bbb

G – Bb

G# – B

Ab – Cb

A – C

A# – C#

Bb – Db

B – D

B# – D#

C – Eb

Nothing too weird – especially if we compare this with Major Thirds!!!

More of same. As I said in an earlier post, this blog is really a notebook for Advanced Guitar Player .. .

Cb – Eb

C – E

C# – E#

Db – F

D – F#

D# – Fx (I’ll just use a straight x for double sharp, for now!)

Ebb – Gb

Eb – G

E – G#

F – A

F# – A#

Gb – Bb

G – B

G# – B#

Ab – C

A – C#

A# – Cx

Bbb – Db

Bb – D

B – D#

* B# – Dx not usual!

Okay . . . still inspired by David Lucas Burge’s approach to intervals, let’s have a look at Perfect Fourths. Rather than commenting, I’ll just asterisk the improbable ones.

Cb – Fb

C – F

C# – F#

Db – Gb

D – G

D# – G#

Eb – Ab

E – A

E# – A#

F – Bb

F# – B

Gb – Cb

G – C

G# – C#

Ab – Db

A – D

A# – D#

Bb – Eb

B – E

* B# – E# (pretty weird!)

Just thought I’d make a note of the enharmonic spellings of all the Perfect Fifths – you never know when this kind of thing will come in handy!

Cb – Gb

C – G

C# – G#

Db – Ab

D – A

D# – A#

Eb – Bb

E – B

E# – B# – not often used

Fb – Cb  – also not often used

F – C

F# – C#

Gb – Db

G – D

G# – D#

Ab – Eb

A – E

A# – E#

Bb – F

B – F#

Cb – Gb etc

A friend from El Taller de Músics leant me David Lucas Burge’s Relative Pitch Ear Training Course – a five CD set – and I’ve spent most of today listening to the first lessons on Perfect Fifths, Perfect Fourths and Major Thirds – all intervals I’m pretty comfortable with or so I thought . . .

Well, surprisingly, I’ve learnt a new perspective on these basic intervals, been drilled on the enharmonic names and practiced some very original ear training drills. The course is fantastic for complete beginners . . . and also has plenty to offer more accomplished musicians.

I’m WELL impressed!!!

As I’m planning to review it for Advanced Guitar Player, I’ve just been messing about with some of Ear Master Pro’s more Advanced Ear Training features for guitarists and I came across this Chord Identification exercise – very handy, I thought, Definitely not for beginners, though!

Click Here To Download an Trial Evaluation Copy of EarMaster – there are Basic, Pro and School versions – I decided to try Ear Master Pro

As I’m working on Guitar Ear Training for Advanced Guitar Player, I thought I’d check out some Ear Training software – I came across Ear Master. It looks quite good and I’ll be downloading an Evaluation copy in order to check it out.

I think the basic problem with software is that it’s difficult to develop skills step by step – however, I’ll reserve my judgement until I’ve checked it out properly!

You can download the Ear Master trial here, by the way!

Looks pretty good, catch you later!

Just thought I’d load up an image of the Advanced Guitar Ear Training tabs to show you all how professional they look – I’m pretty pleased myself!

Beautifully programmed in Guitar Pro 6 – check it out by clicking on this link!

I’m probably jumping the gun (as usual) but the Free Guitar Ear Training Course – it’s called Perfect Your Pitch, by the way – will be available from the Downloads section of Advanced Guitar Player.So go to the site and Download it NOW!

It’s been programmed in Guitar Pro 6 and is the first instalment of a more ambitious project that I’ll hopefully end up charging but at the moment I’d just grateful if you’d log on to the Forum on Advanced Guitar Player and make a comment so that I can work on improvements,

This part will help you to learn how to recognise and sing the seven degrees of the Major Scale. All the exercises are in C Major so by the end of the course you should be able to sing C, D, E, F, G, A and B at sight. Future instalments will get you transcribing solos and applying this skill to other keys but it’s best to start with the basics.

The reason why I’ve created the course are firstly because a lot of people study on their own these days and if you don’t have a teacher it’s really difficult to know whether you’re getting the notes right or not – having everything programmed as a tab file in Guitar Pro means that you can read the score and listen to it at the same time if you want. (That’s why I love Guitar Pro 6!!!).

Secondly, every class I’ve ever had on ear training and sight reading has been taught to me by a piano player – great musicians but they just think differently from us guitarists. One of the ways I get to transcribe music when I’m sitting on a bus or underground train is by picturing my fretboard in my head. I listen to the music, sing it myself, work what the notes are and then picture it on the fretboard – by the time I get to the rehearsal or gig I’ve pretty much learnt it.

A pretty useful skill, don’t you think. Anyway, go to Advanced Guitar Player, Download it and enjoy!

This is just a test post to the Advanced Guitar Network – I’ve spent the last couple of days setting up autoposting to various blogs so here’s a bit of text for all you Guitar-Playing Geeks and I think I’ll upload a photo just to see how it looks.

PS. The Guitar Ear Training Course should be going live on Advanced Guitar Player in the next couple of days. ENJOY! I’m too sexy for my Strat!