Like many musicians, I’m used to carrying music stands, music, music stand lights, and clips for the music (to use if playing outside when its windy). For quite some time I have been wondering when technology would improve and be affordable for musicians and music students. I’m from Austin Texas and for the past several […]
Author Archives: Paul Maine
Did you know that their are two blues scales? A minor blues scale and a major blues scale. Many students are introduced to improvising on a blues tune using the minor blues scale. The music teacher usually says just use the same scale over the entire song. The C minor blues scale consists of the […]
A few months ago I attended a jazz jam session in Austin Texas at Kickbutt Coffee. While at the jam session I heard a wonderful sax player and all around nice guy named Tony Bray. A couple of week ago I learned that Tony was CEO of a company named “Jazz Apps Mobile LLC“. As […]
This post is a tribute to my friend Richard Emerson. Richard was a friend, fellow musician and my world war II hero. He was nearly 90 years old when he passed. Richard played the keyboard and we performed at the Baker Theater in Lockhart Texas for several years. When Richard and I first met and […]
If we begin by naming the notes in the C Major scale and then placing numbers beneath each note we have the following: CDEFGAB 1234567 The Major scale generates 7 modes and they are named Ionian, Dorian, Phyrgian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian and Locrian. C Lydian can be constructed as: 123#4567 or C,D,E,F#,G,A,B C Ionian can […]