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Music - Part 2

Feature Series | Topic: Music Theory | Sound International, Jun 1978
Introducing "The Dots"

Dave Stewart matches the dots to frets, keys and the like.

Music - Part 10

Feature Series | Topic: Music Theory | Sound International, May 1979
Even more on chords and chord voicings

Music - Part 5

Feature Series | Topic: Music Theory | Sound International, Oct 1978
Introducing The Dots...

Would-be nuclear physicist Dave Stewart conjures up a few tunes for your wretched banjos and accordions. What a waste.

Music - Part 8

Feature Series | Topic: Music Theory | Sound International, Mar 1979
INTRODUCING THE DOTS

Dave Stewart continues his look at music in terms that real people can grasp with some more well-structured chords and even more well-contrived witticisms.

Music - Part 3

Feature Series | Topic: Music Theory | Sound International, Aug 1978
Introducing The Dots...

Is 4 getting you down? Dave Stewart puts rhythm in easy lingo.

Name That Tone

Feature | Topic: Music Theory | Polyphony, Jul/Aug 1978
Using a Calculator to Find Frequencies From Notes and Vice Versa

Outside Of C - Part 5

Feature Series | Topic: Tuition / Technique, Music Theory | One Two Testing, Dec 1985
Keyboard Training

more keyboard left-hands

Outside Of C - Part 4

Feature Series | Topic: Tuition / Technique, Music Theory | One Two Testing, Oct 1985

flash keyboard chords

Outside Of C - Part 2

Feature Series | Topic: Tuition / Technique, Music Theory | One Two Testing, Aug 1985

better keyboard technique and the use of modes

Outside of C - Part 1

Feature Series | Topic: Tuition / Technique, Music Theory | One Two Testing, Jun 1985

new series to improve your keyboard technique

Outside Of C

Feature | Topic: Tuition / Technique, Music Theory | One Two Testing, Nov 1985
...and left hand keyboard techniques

shape up those left hand keyboard licks

Outside Of C - Part 6

Feature Series | Topic: Music Theory, Tuition / Technique | One Two Testing, Jan 1986
Keyboard Training

spinning the circle of fifths

Outside Of C - Part 3

Feature Series | Topic: Tuition / Technique, Music Theory | One Two Testing, Sep 1985

juicing up your keyboard chords

Outside Of C

Feature | Topic: Tuition / Technique, Music Theory | One Two Testing, Jul 1985

intervals and the keyboard, plus chord of the month

Songs & Basslines

Feature | Topic: Tuition / Technique, Music Theory | Making Music, Nov 1986

D'you find that the basslines you put on your new songs are unadventurous? Here's some inspiration.

Songs And Their Sections - Part 2

Feature Series | Topic: Music Theory | Making Music, Oct 1986

Part two considers arrangements: getting right all the instruments order in the.

Songs And Their Sections - Part 1

Feature Series | Topic: Music Theory | Making Music, Sep 1986

How to cunningly arrange those three chord tricks we taught you.

Stick Trix

Feature | Topic: Tuition / Technique, Music Theory | Phaze 1, Apr 1989

Stick Trix

Feature | Topic: Tuition / Technique, Music Theory | Phaze 1, Feb 1989

Synth Sense

Feature | Topic: Music Theory | Making Music, Jun 1986

A pile of useful stuff on the gaps between the notes that make chords sound (mostly) nice.

Synth Sense

Feature | Topic: Tuition / Technique, Music Theory | Making Music, Sep 1986

Thirteenths and onwards. Intervals? We gorrem flat. We gorrem sharp.

Synth Sense

Feature | Topic: Tuition / Technique, Music Theory | Making Music, Aug 1986

Lots of chords, including the diminished fifth modified dominant seventh.

Synth Sense

Feature | Topic: Tuition / Technique, Music Theory | Making Music, Oct 1986

Find out what keyboard and guitar chords have got to do with Tina Turner's 'What's Love Got To Do With It'.

Temperament

Feature | Topic: Music Theory | Making Music, Apr 1987

The DX7 II fiddles with it, lots of music is based on an equal one, but the thing is, what is it?

The Psychology of Music - Part 3

Feature Series | Topic: Music Theory | Electronics & Music Maker, Jan 1984

 

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