Last week I was talking about grand barré and the difficulties that it causes in F-major. Let’s go on with exploring the possibilities of the barré – this time it is a medium barré (also called ‘half barré’). If full barré needs a fully extended straight finger to cover all the strings, then half barré means… Continue reading
Author Archives → Kristo Käo
Tallinn Music Week 2014
Kristo Käo (guitar) & Leonora Palu (flute) at Nokia Concert hall on 27th of March, around 21:30. This is the annual Tallinn Music Week – the biggest showcase festival in Nordic and Baltic region: http://tallinnmusicweek.ee/artist_2014.php?nid=484 Here is what we will play: R.Eespere / Matbeth J.Reinvere / Water Dance L.Sumera / For BBB and his Friend
How We Will Change The Online Music Education
We have been working on something that will change the online music education forever. There is one very important thing missing from all available musical instrument method books and online courses: the instant feedback. Yes, the kind of feedback that you get when you play to an actual human teacher. Minus the stress. Well, until next week:… Continue reading
Introducing Sound Recognition-Based Tools For Music Class At HITSA Conference 2014
In March I was invited to speak at the HITSA spring conference. The main focus of the conference was educational technology at schools and teaching programming. My topic was “The Sound Recognition-Based Tools In Music Education” and I introduced our MatchMySound automated feedback system. My presentation is on YouTube but in Estonian. Here are my… Continue reading
MatchMySound: An Automagical Feedback Plugin For Any Music Instruction Website
There is one very important thing missing from all available musical instrument method books and online courses: the instant feedback. Yes, the kind of feedback that you get when you play to an actual human teacher. Minus the stress 🙂 However, things are about to change. This small guitar melody course here is demonstrating our brand… Continue reading
Chord Of The Week: B9
One last time back to the barré, this time a bit different. As you can see from the picture, it is possible to use other fingers than the first to press down multiple strings. In this case it is the third finger. Some players also use fourth finger in similar cases. And that is basically… Continue reading
Chord Of The Week: C7
Once you have mastered some triads (chords that have no numbers in their name), it is time to widen your knowledge and learn a couple of seventh chords. A seventh chord is made up of a triad plus one extra third. It means that if for example in C-major you have three notes: c-e-g, then… Continue reading
Estonian chamber music with flute and guitar
How Many Chords Does A Guitarist Need
How many chords do you actually need to know? Let’s see what is your goal. If all you want is to strum accompaniment to an odd pop song then 10 chords is good enough. These would be for example A, Am, B7, C, D, Dm, E, Em, F, G There are plenty of famous songs… Continue reading
Chord Of The Week: E
It may be one of the first chords that you learned if you took up the guitar. If not then it is about time. E major triad is made up of three notes: e-g#-b. Why do we raise the g? Because otherwise the interval between the root and third would be a minor third that… Continue reading