Forgotten Cello Music
Episode 87
Forgotten Skills: I Wrote a Book
Chord Scales
There are several skills that have been neglected or outright excluded from a Classical Musician’s training. Certainly from the average weekly, private lessons.
What are those forgotten skills?
1) Knowledge of chords (to know how any note fits into a chord)
2) Improvisation
This episode is entirely based on my own experience and how I have been trained to see, hear, experience, and play Classical Music.
The book that I wrote is a result of my own journey to play music better, to understand more fully how and why notes are played in a certain way, and to be able to play more consistently and confidently.
The title of said book is Scales, Arpeggios, Chords, and Cadences. It should be reissued under the more appropriate title of Chord Scales.
The purpose of this book was to help myself discover where the notes lay on my fingerboard so as to confidently play them with greater accuracy. (Mapping Out the Fingerboard)
It was always a mystery as to how others could simply play with confidence, finding notes without fear of missing anything. And when I played with church or non-classical musicians it was astounding that they knew what notes to play and the chords that went with those notes.
My book is laid out as follows:
- One Octave Scale
- One Octave Arpeggio
3: Triad Chord Scale in Root Position
- Chord Scale in playable sonority in “Root Position”
- Primary Chords and Basic Chord Progression in Root Position
- Dominant 7th arpeggio
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