Play The 7 Modes in 7 Days (Tabs Incl.) | GuitarHabits.com Photo by Marta Monleón Modes are used in all kinds of musical styles like Jazz, Rock, Metal, Flamenco, etc. They create a certain mood or feel to your playing. If you feel like you are stuck playing solos using just Major/Minor or Pentatonic/Blues scales all the time, you’re ready to call on the modes and dive a little deeper. When I first got introduced to modes I was a little bit overwhelmed, but also excited to explore this whole new world of boundless possibilities. I soon realized it’s all about the journey and not the destination, so enjoy the process! There are 7 modes which can be derived from the major scale: 1 – Ionian 2 – Dorian 3 – Phrygian 4 – Lydian 5 – Mixolydian 6 – Aeolian 7 – Locrian Each mode starts and stops on a different note within the major scale. In this post we take the C major scale to explain the modes, but you can derive the 7 modes from any major scale in any key. I challenge you to understand the basics and work your way through each mode in 7 days.
Big Chest Workout Redesign your upper body using this cutting-edge muscle plan 1A. Barbell bench press Grab a barbell with an overhand grip that's just beyond shoulder width, and hold it above your sternum with arms straight. 1B. Grab a pullup bar with a shoulderwidth overhand grip and hang at arm's length. Transform Your Body! 14 Natural Items for Your Alternative First Aid Kit Cloves. Photo by Elenadan Find out which multitasking natural remedies merit a spot in your backpack. IF YOU’VE COME TO trust in herbal and alternative medicine at home, it can be a hard decision to go back to Pepto-Bismol and Dayquil when you’re getting ready to go abroad. With these 14 items it’s easy to keep up that alternative health kick you’ve been on, even when you’re 5000 miles from home. 1. This is top of the list because it’s just so damn useful. Echinacea. 2. A powerful antibacterial, antibiotic, and antiparasitical potion. 3. Few things can kill a travel buzz like bad menstrual cramps. 4. All-Heal, Self- Heal and Heal-All are all common names of a plant which has many uses: antibiotic, antiseptic, astringent. Ginger root. 5. Stomach troubles are one of the most common issues among travelers. 6. Arnica is commonly found in two forms, either as a gel( look for Boiron brand) or in homeopathic pellets. 7. Native to Australia, the tea tree plant produces a powerful astringent oil.
Healthy Ways To Curb Hunger Lowering your caloric intake is often part of losing weight, but it can leave you hungry and unsatisfied. The key to staying on track with your diet and weight loss is to eat foods that leave you feeling full without going over your daily calorie target. In some cases, controlling hunger comes down to learning when you are actually hungry versus when you're bored or eating out of habit. Controlling your hunger makes it easier to continue your weight-loss long term. Track your food consumption to identify the times when you tend to get hungry the most. Look for triggers that cause you to overeat or consume a lot of calories, such as long gaps between eating. Eat a nutritious breakfast with protein, dairy or whole grains to satisfy your hunger as soon as you wake up. Fill half of your lunch and dinner plates with vegetables to help you get full while limiting your calories. Plan nutritious snacks between your meals that will fill you up without packing lots of calories.
50 Amazing and Essential Novels to Enrich Your Library | zen habits Post written by Leo Babauta. I recently ran into a couple of reading lists (I’ll share them at the end) and realized that I LOVE reading book recommendations. I can’t get enough of them. So I decided to compile my own (somewhat eclectic) list of novels I think are amazing and essential to every library. I should make some notes before diving in. Another note: there are actually many more books listed here than 50 — a number of those listed are actually series of books, in a couple cases series that include 20 or more books. There are classics here, but there are cheap thrillers and popular fiction and even a few “kids” books. If you could fill your library with only 50 books, you could do much worse than choose these 50. Not in any order but just in the order they came to me: King Lear, by Shakespeare. Some other lists of books I’ve enjoyed recently:
The Best Of The Best: Here Are 20 Gems Of Wisdom You Need To Know Think of this list as the Academy Awards of getting bigger, stronger and leaner: It’s a collection of tips that represent total domination in the gym. Each “best” selection was chosen based on either bona fide scientific data, overwhelming anecdotal evidence by hardcore gym rats around the world or both. Looking for the best way to add thickness to your arms, carve out a six-pack or throw around more weight than you ever have? You’ll find the answer here. 1) Best For Big Biceps: Barbell Curl While variety is key to developing well-balanced arms, we suggest you stick mainly with straight barbell curls and use the EZ-bar just once in a while for a change. More weight used means greater muscle-fiber stimulation and growth potential. 2) Best For Overall Chest Mass: Dumbbell Bench Press 3) Best For Deltoid Development: Dumbbell Overhead Press 4) Best For Building Triceps: Dips Pushdowns might be your favorite triceps movement, but when was the last time you did dips? Sample HIIT workout to try: 1.
You Know You Want Sexy Abs! | healthkicker The next month or two of work on Xanga 2.0 is going to be busy, so I wanted to share with everyone a roadmap of how we’re thinking about things! We’re dividing the work on this project into four basic phases. Phase 1. Data migration As described here, we’ve imported over every account that we have on Xanga over to the new system so that anyone who could sign into Xanga can still sign into Xanga 2.0. Finally and most important of all, we’ve imported over 2 million blogs from the old system. * We’ve archived the blogs of the hundreds of thousands of blogs where the user has logged in in the past 5 years and has at least two subscribers. * We did an additional set of archives for 200k users who had logged in the past year and had at least 10 blogs. * We’ve also archived the blogs of every single user that’s ever been premium at any point in the past… And of course, a lot of you guys archived your own blogs using the old Xanga archive generator. Phase 2. Phase 3. Phase 4.
Do More Than One Stinking Pull-Up I’m still haunted by my 6th grade gym class. At the beginning of the semester, all the students took part in a physical fitness test. Part of the test included a visit to the old chin-up bar. I remember standing in line nervously knowing I was about to embarrass myself. You see, I was a fat kid. I watched all the skinny kids bust out pull-ups like they were nothing. “Okay, McKay,” the coach said, “you’re up.” I summoned all the positive thinking I could at that moment. Ever since then, I’ve made it a goal in life to be able to do pull-ups. The Benefits of Pull-Ups The pull-up is a strength-building dynamo. FingersForearmsBicepsTricepsShouldersBackCore Not only will your strength increase dramatically from pull-ups, but your upper body will become bigger and more defined. How Not to Do Pull-Ups Many men who have trouble doing pull-ups go to the assisted pull-up machine to help them crank the pull-ups out. First, a mental factor exists when doing pull-ups. Week 2: 5 sets of 3 reps.
Fur Elise For Guitar - Sheet Music and Guitar Tabs Für Elise is a very famous classical piece of music written by Ludwig Von Beethoven in 1808. It is also known as 'Bagatelle in A Minor'. The opening part of Fur Elise is easy and fun to play. It uses very basic chords mixed with some single note lines. Here's an mp3 of Fur Elise played on piano. Here is the guitar chord chart of the chords that are used in Fur Elise: As you can see, these are all very basic chords. Here's the sheet music with guitar tabs for Beethoven's Fur Elise. Welcome back, did you find Fur Elise hard to play? Some fun facts about Fur Elise : Who is Elise? Back to guitar song chords All guitar chord charts © 2010 Dirk Laukens