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I’ve been teaching private lessons for 14 years. I’ve been a student of music for longer. I’ve taught guitar, bass, drums, piano, and voice. I’ve been in jazz bands, rock bands, church choirs, and Italian operas. […]

The Time Unit Box System vs. Standard Notation (and Tablature)
In TUBS, the boxes of a grid represent equal units of time, consistent from column to column, and from row to row. This is how […]

Scale Spelling Wheel — Exterior: All Note Names, Interior: Degrees of the Major Scale
Table of Contents

Two Crowds
The Circle of Fifths
“Functional” Musicians
Why Should We Care, Anyway?
I […]

OK Podcast — Episode 1

Since my last video interview with Prof. Brad Osborn (check that out here in case you missed it), I’ve been blocking out the noise a […]

Chord Numerals – I, ii, iii, IV, V, and vi
There is a way to unlock the subject of […]

What place does music theory have in songwriting? Can it be helpful? Stifling? Maybe both? Why are we looking at a picture of a pie?In an interview I conducted last month, I had the opportunity to explore these […]

This madman rambling blog post is a companion to my madman video here.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykggVl1AlRwWhen Vox’s piece on “Videotape” featuring me went live, I had no idea what was coming.First, some […]

https://youtu.be/p_IHotHxIl8Vox Pop: EARWORM PremiereI had become obsessed with one of the craziest songs I’d ever heard.I listened to it on repeat in the car, at the gym, while grocery shopping. Even when I wa […]

A timely tribute given Radiohead’s upcoming OKNOTOK, a 20th anniversary commemorative album that promises the unreleased cult-favorite, “Lift.”

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Some of the many artists I’ve covered in my tutorials.

Curated by you.
Whether it’s to learn a song note […]

Motivation, Musicianship, and Being Holistic About It.

This was taken from the 20th or so video I filmed for my recent cover and topical video on Radiohead’s “ […]

What if someone could walk you through the process of becoming a better musician, step-by-step? What if you could gain something more valuable than a tab or a tutorial, or even hundreds of tabs and tutorials? What […]

WARRENMUSIC Series Harmony Module, Episode 3 — “Introduction to Thirds, Triads, and Chord Numerals”

Harmony for all.
Playing chord and chord progressi […]

Friends of WARRENMUSIC,I’m extremely proud to announce we just finished uploading the final cut of the Harmony Module. Watch the teaser for it right now.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6C98gHXGp8The Music You L […]

Filipe recently purchased the Melody Module and I asked him for initial impressions of the videos and for feedback. Instead, what I received was a much more interesting story of personal discovery on how […]