Mike Outram

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Pages From A Notebook Vol.1

Here are all the posts from the first ‘Pages From A Notebook’ series. Enjoy!

  1. Diminished #1
  2. Diminished #2
  3. Diminished #3
  4. Diminished #4
  5. Diminished #5
  6. Practice Method
  7. Practice Method #2
  8. Thinking
  9. Imagination
  10. Harmonic Arrangement
  11. Harmonic Arrangement #2
  12. Rhythmic Possibilities: Triplets
  13. Rhythmic Possibilities: 16th notes
  14. Look For Patterns
  15. Know Your Intervals: Thirds
  16. Practice Page #1
  17. What if you only have 10 minutes to practise?
  18. How to be a great accompanist
  19. 3 Ways of Knowing
  20. Linear Connections #1
  21. Linear Connections #2
  22. Linear Connections #3
  23. Linear Connections #4
  24. Learn the Cycle of 4ths
  25. Directed Listening
  26. Scales in Intervals #1
  27. Scales in Intervals #2
  28. Scales in Intervals #3
  29. Scales in Intervals #4
  30. Scales in Intervals #5
  31. Scales in Intervals #6
  32. Scales in Intervals #7
  33. Practice Page #2
  34. Collaborate
  35. Minor Pentatonics on Giant Steps
  36. Learn a Blues in Every Key
  37. Harmonic Cycles #1
  38. Harmonic Cycles #2
  39. Harmonic Cycles #3
  40. Harmonic Cycles #4
  41. Root Note Solo
  42. Triad Pairs
  43. Phrasing Arc
  44. Moving Rhythmic Values
  45. Negative Space, Playing Space
  46. How to work on your sight-reading
  47. Form 100
  48. Learn one tune well
  49. No Repeat Voicings
  50. Magic Moments
  51. Chords from another planet
  52. Mellifluous Melody
  53. Reading Between the Lines
  54. Play Quieter
  55. Don’t learn shapes
  56. Play. No Pitches
  57. Your Voice. The Voice.
  58. Harmonic Minor Chord Scale
  59. Contribute
  60. Initiation Speed
  61. How to Learn the Notes on the Fretboard
  62. Tchaichordsky
  63. Stacked Diminished Chords
  64. Resolve all notes in C
  65. Resolve all notes not in C
  66. Don’t practise what you already know.
  67. Separate the bullshit from the bottom line
  68. Arpeggio Exercise
  69. Sus 4 resolutions in C Major
  70. 3 Minute Warm Up
  71. Dyad Comping in D Dorian #1
  72. Dyad Comping in D dorian #2
  73. Over Analyse – Under Analyse
  74. The Bag
  75. Control of the Pick
  76. 7th Chord Inversions. II V I
  77. Do a transcription
  78. Playing dominant chords with upper structure triads
  79. Happy Ear Day
  80. Nuance
  81. Triplet Picking Exercise in Odd Groupings
  82. Awareness

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