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Lunar Phases: The Major and Minor Phases of the Moon

This article explains the significance of lunar phases and their meanings. Read the full article

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Lunar Phases: The Major and Minor Phases of the Moon

This article explains the significance of lunar phases and their meanings. Read the full article

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Lunar Phases: The Major and Minor Phases of the Moon

This article explains the significance of lunar phases and their meanings. Read the full article

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Lunar Phases: The Major and Minor Phases of the Moon

This article explains the significance of lunar phases and their meanings. Read the full article

[willhurdstrings]

Fun with #musicalmodes Create different shades of brightness and darkness with more than just the usual #majorandminor scales! My advanced #suzukigroup loves playing major key pieces in the minor and vice versa, so I thought I’d introduce the concept of mode. Instead of thinking of major as “happy” and minor as “sad”, we explored subtle shades of darkness and lightness with all 7 of the traditional Greek modes. To get brighter, add sharps or subtract flats; to get darker, subtract sharps or add flats. Always alter the key signature in the order of sharps and flats. Here are some examples from #suzukibook1 For simplicity I used only pieces with the original key of A major. I changed my shirt to accentuate the lightness/darkness visually. I hope you like the fashion show. LOL! 1) Lydian mode - add D# to A major 2) Ionian mode or Major - no change here 3)Mixolydian mode - one shade darker than major with one fewer sharp 4) Dorian mode - one shade brighter than minor with an additional sharp added to the minor key 5) Aeolian mode or natural minor 6) Phrygian mode - one shade darker than minor 7) Locrian mode - two shades darker than minor and very weird. I’m willing to bet this is a world premier of May Song in the locrian mode! Note: This is an activity for intermediate and advanced students who have excellent review habits and who have performed the book 1 pieces many times. #violinist #violinteacher #suzukiteacher #phrygian #locrian #dorianmode #mixolydian #lydianmode #lydian #ionianmode #lightlyrow #suzukitriangle #songofthewind #longlongago #maysong #practiceroom #violinclass #violinlessonsforkids #violinlesson #violinfun #violinlove (at Washington D.C.) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKwRFboAC3h/?igshid=1ugxy1v21mf4v

[hassocksguitarlessons]

From major to minor

You might have heard these musical terms before but perhaps don’t know exactly what they mean: major, minor, sharp and flat. Many people, when beginning their guitar lessons journey, will learn a few chords. Your first chords will probably include D, E, A, E minor and A minor. While these chords can be played on a piano or keyboard and sound much the same, on guitar, most people learn them visually - e.g. D is a little triangle of fingers, A is a straight line - and we don’t tend to get into the significance of the names until later. However, it can cause some confusion early on. Recently, one of my pupils asked me if D flat was the same thing as D minor so I thought I would explain the difference. In effect, we’re actually talking about two very different things in D flat and D minor.

Imagine a piano. The large keys on a piano are traditionally white, with slightly smaller black keys tucked in between them. The white notes are A, B, C, D, E, F and G and the black notes are “sharps” or “flats”. The black note between A and B can be called either A sharp or B flat because it is one note higher than A (hence A sharp) but also one note below B (hence B flat). If you trace the notes from the bottom of the piano upwards you’ll notice that every now and then two white keys appear together with no black key between them. These pairs of white notes are B and C, E and F. There is no B sharp or C flat or E sharp or F flat - at least, not for the purposes of this blog!

So, what’s a D flat? The answer: it’s the black note one step down from D. We might also think of it as C sharp as it’s one step up from C. D flat might also mean a D flat chord or, to give it its full name, D flat major.*

D minor therefore doesn’t sound like the name of a note, it’s the name of a chord. On guitar, if you consider where you would put your fingers for a D minor, it is not very far removed from a D major. More on why that might be another time!

* If we’re talking about a D chord, a C chord, a G chord or, indeed, a D flat chord then remember any chord expressed this way - i.e. without any additional information like minor, diminished or augmented after it - is short-hand for “major chord” so the full names would actually be D major, C major, G major and so on.

[victormaury]

Sketch-a-Day July 22 | Major and Minor Encounter the Oracle

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