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The Happiest Chord On The Guitar

December 29th, 2009 admin No comments

As part of my goal to get more of my music on this site, I will be doing some guitar tutorials with audio. I’ll start off easily with some scales and chord exercises. I’ll then progress onto some more advanced guitar techniques. I’d also like to put some original guitar compositions on this site including full tabs and musical scores.

For my first offering here is what I call possibly the happiest chord on the guitar. It’s pretty close to an E Maj 13th with a C# and F#. It’s a bar chord played on 11th fret. So try it out and feel all happy inside.

 

Live @ Game Shibuya Tokyo

September 20th, 2009 admin 1 comment

Here is a video of my band doing a gig at Game in Shibuya Tokyo.

Live @ Game Shibuya Tokyo from Alex Brooke on Vimeo.

iPhone, Flash, and other stuff

July 6th, 2009 admin 2 comments

iPhone Review Feature

Ouch, we got a really crappy review on Learn Japanese Pod which is good because I’m sure the controversy will drive up site hits. But on a more serious note, it’s good to know that the iPhone has that feature. So you can not only review apps but also podcasts too. I’m hoping more people will send us iPhone reviews. If you have an iPhone and could help out teaching other people who to write one, please contact me by leaving a comment on this post or emailing me at mail(at)alexbrooke(dot)com.

I actually bought a book on how to program the iPhone with the misguided idea I would ever get around to using it. Luckily it is now in the trusty hands of Karamoon, a mover and shaker in the Tokyo tech world. I’m sure he can do something more contructive with it.

Flash Tutorials for Beginners

Which links rather badly into the next topic which is Flash tutorials. I am slowly writing Flash tutorials for beginners in an effort to teach myself and consolidate my knowledge. My angle is that although there are a lot of excellent resources out there for learning Flash/Actionscript, a lot of them tend to assume prior knowledge or miss things out. So I want to keep making these tutorials for beginners and that’s where I need your help. What tutorials would you like me to post? Please leave a comment or mail me. Ta!

Guitar Tutorials

As I am a guitarist and musician at heart, I want to do some guitar tutorials aimed at first for beginners. I may put some more advanced lessons up in the future.  So I need your help. What would you like to learn? What kind of format would you like the lessons? Video? Tab? Text? Audio? I would greatly appreciate your comments and ideas on this so I can make some awesome guitar tutorials for you. Again, please leave a comment at the end of this post or email me. Keep rocking!