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Articles Published by Dennis Winge
Practicing and Taking Lessons
Developing a Great Practice Routine
How Taking Music Lessons Taps Into One of the Biggest Keys to Success in Life
How to Best Use Technology While Practicing
How to Master Difficult Musical Passages
Hurry Up and Relax
Not Wanting to Come to Lessons Because You Haven’t Practiced
Practice ‘In Time’
Practice Smarter, Not Harder
Practicing Guide
Reflections on How and Why Recitals are Useful
The Fly on the Wall in Your Practice Room
The Growth-Minded Practice Ghost
The Lag-Time between Practicing New Things and Using Them on Gigs
Using Concepts You’ve Practiced in Live Improvisation
What Happens When Students Take a Break from Lessons
What I Have Learned About Teaching from Taking Lessons Again
What Regular Practicing Brings to Live Performances
Philosophy of Playing Music
Becoming a Musical Jedi
Becoming a Self-Effulgent Musician
Cultivating Inspirational Dissatisfaction
Developing Musical Awareness through Pure Play
Elevate Your Peformance Consciousness (without substances)
Enhance Your Creativity with One Simple Action
Enjoying the Musical Now
Four Agreements part 1 – Your Word
Four Agreements part 2 – Don’t Take Things Personally
Four Agreements part 3 – Don’t Make Assumptions
Four Agreements part 4 – Always Do Your Best
Free Yourself From Musical Ideals
How Musicians Uplift People’s Spirits
Life Skills Enhanced Through Playing Music
Listen Then Play
Making Friends with Silence
Music is a Team Sport
So You’ve Got Talent – Now What?
Stillness and Musical Mastery
Smile, Soft, Simple, Swingin’, Space, Shape
What is Musicality?
When You Wonder If You’re Not Cut Out to Be a Good Musician
Why Develop Your Musicianship?
Jamming, Performing, & Music Business
Big Picture Performing Tips
Comparing How Amateurs and Professionals Jam
Dealing with the Stress of Booking Gigs
Getting Paid for Performances
How to Design a Set List
How to Jam
How to Manage Your Guitar Volume
Making Up Contracts for Gigs
Never Run Out of Ideas During a Solo Again
Notes from the Movie The Gig
Taking Gigs for Fun
Taking Gigs for their Learning Potential
The Two Kinds of Musical Performers
Why The Fast, Cheap, Good Pyramid Doesn’t Apply in the Music Business
Balancing Volume Between Lead and Rhythm Playing
Transcribing / Ear Training
How Knowing Your Harmonized Scales Can Help You Transcribe Music
Modes as Clouds
Rough Guide to Transcribing
Stolent Moments Guitar Transcription
The Magical Power of Transcribing
Why Learn to Transpose?
Chords
3 Different Types of 9th Chords
9th Chords Simplified
Diving Deeper Into Chord Embellishments
Learning to Embellish Chords with the Open Add9 Chord
Major and Minor 11 Chords
More 11 Chords Than You Could Possibly Need
Slash Chords
Suspended Chords
The 5 Chord Families
The Augmented Chord
The Diminished Chord
The Half-Diminished Chord
Triads On Every String Set
The Ultimate Guide to Voicings for Advanced Chords on Guitar
Music Theory
A Harmonic Analysis of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Chord Theory and its Immediate Usefulness
Common Scales and their Intervals
Common Types of Slash Chords and How They Function
Constructing Major Scales
Creating Modal Chord Progressions
Deck the Halls with Coltrane Changes
Exotic Scales
Horizontal & Vertical Improvising
How to Create Grooves using Harmonized Scales
How to Harmonize a Melody, part 1
How to Harmonize a Melody, part 2
How to Harmonize a Melody, part 3
How to Harmonize a Scale
How to Simplify Complicated Chord Progressions
How to Write Modal Progressions
Improvising on Guitar without Accompaniment
Introduction to the Modes
Jazz Theory – Analyzing Tunes
Jazz Theory – Diminished Scale
Jazz Theory – Rhythm
Jazz Theory – The Magic of Guide Tones
Jazz Theory – The Many Uses of Melodic Minor
Jazzing Up your Rock Playing – part 1, Harmony
Jazzing Up your Rock Playing – part 2, Rhythm
Jazzing Up your Rock Playing – part 3, Melody
Make Up Cool Chord Progressions Easily
Melodic Patterns
Memorizing the Modes
Music by Numbers
Quick and Easy Guide to Modes
Rough Guide to Classical Harmony
The Lesser Known Musical Elements – Dynamics
The Lesser Known Musical Elements – Texture
The Lesser Known Musical Elements – Timbre
The Lesser Known Musical Elements – Form
The Power of Simple Sequences
To Loop or Not to Loop
Tritone Modal Relationships and the Circle of Fifths
Using Minor and Major Scales in the Same Guitar Solo
What Scales to Play Over What Chords
Rhythm
Developing Rhythmic Coordination on Guitar
Exploring Toussaint’s Maximally Even Rhythms
Feeling the Afro-Cuban 6-8 Polyrhythm on Guitar
Give Your Solos a Dose of Polyrythmic Adventurousness
How Konnakol Makes Difficult Rhythms Accessible
How to Feel Half-Note Triplets
How to Make Your Blues Playing More Rhythmically Interesting
How to Perform Any Polyrhythm
Interlocking Rhythms
Learning Syncopation with the Partido Alto Groove
Gear
Guitar Effects for the Technically Challenged
Songwriting
3 Easy Ways to Write 2 Complimentary Sections
A Broader Perspective for Singer-Songwriters
Turning Off the Inner Critic
Using Eastern Harmony in Western Compositions
Writing Parts for Other Musicians
Solo Guitar
A Look Inside Chord-Melody Playing
Don’t Stop Believin’ Chord-Melody
Go Trade with Yourself
The Art of Solo Guitar
Reading
Self-Managing Your Reading Studies
Why Learn to Read Music?
Master List of All Supplemental Content at Guitar Lessons Ithaca
Tab play-alongs
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