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A musical motif or motive is a recurring musical set of notes or a series of intervals played in succession. I'm sure you've heard repetition in a melody in fact, almost all compositions are made up of repeating motifs.

Guitar chords as well as piano chords can be easily figured out by using this handy chart that shows the scale step numbers measured from the Root.

These days I tend to play nylon stringed electric guitars, for chord melody guitar playing. I’ve grown more into nylon stringed guitars so they don’t tear my fingernails apart and I’m able to play chord melody guitar easily. I generally swap between pick style and finger-style within the same tune which is why I like [...]

Research shows that young people who take music lessons have significantly better developed brains then those who have never learned music. There a countless articles and discussions on the topic of children's music lessons and the development of the brain.

The melodic minor scale is a very powerful scale when used with the correct chords. Many jazz musicians used this scale as a foundation for improvising.

Alan Parsons is a world renown producer and has a website I found very interesting

Simply put, a “fake book” is a book of lead sheets. Lead-sheets are a basic musical skeleton of a tune with the melody and chords and lyrics (if any).

It may sound like a contradiction, but if you want to create music when you play you must be able to hear the music first - in your head. This goes doubly if you want to improvise, compose or play by ear!

I want some feedback from the music community and I pose this Question; What Is The Most Difficult Aspect Of Learning An Instrument?