Ways to Learn: An exclusive Eloy Casagrande story by Apple and Moises
Step up your guitar game with an unparalleled opportunity to practice. Thanks to our partnership with Berklee Online, you can access a set of meticulously curated guitar exercises for free. Discover the path to expert-level proficiency today.
Moises, the Musician's App, was recognized in several countries as the Best App of 2021 for Personal Growth by Google Play. This category carries a powerful meaning as it embodies our core mission to 'Empower Creative Potential'.
This treasure trove of free exercises is designed by experts to challenge and refine your skills. Berklee Online’s Guitar Exercises offer a unique opportunity to expand your musical vocabulary and improve your technique.
These exercises kick off with an exploration of modal improvisation, focusing on the Lydian and Dorian modes. Enhance your understanding of modal harmony and learn to craft melodically rich solos. This exercise challenges you to develop thematic ideas, boosting your creativity and improvisational skills—a valuable tool for guitarists aiming to elevate their playing.
Tackle rhythmic precision with a sixteenth-note subdivision exercise. By practicing each subdivision, you’ll enhance your timing and ability to execute complex rhythms. This drill improves technical skills, groove, and syncopation, enabling tighter performances with other musicians. Whether playing rhythms or soloing, this exercise sharpens your rhythmic accuracy.
Berklee Online also offers an exercise on approach notes, a half step below dominant 7 chord tones. This jazz technique adds chromatic flair to your solos. You’ll learn to seamlessly incorporate these notes on upbeats, enhancing rhythmic interest and harmonic richness. This exercise boosts your soloing skills and deepens your understanding of melody and harmony, enabling more inventive musical lines.
Dive into the art of voice leading in jazz guitar, emphasizing smooth transitions between chords. You’ll practice navigating common jazz chord progressions, aiming for fluid melodic continuity. This technique enhances your chord transition skills and deepens your understanding of jazz harmony and improvisation, ultimately creating more cohesive solos and rhythm parts.
Hybrid picking combines the use of a pick and fingers to play notes simultaneously, allowing for greater flexibility and speed in navigating complex passages. This technique is versatile and applicable across various music genres, including country, rock, and classical guitar styles. Master the coordination required to switch seamlessly between using the pick and your fingers so you can tackle intricate riffs and solos with ease.
Each exercise comes with an audio recording, explanations, and sheet music—but it doesn’t stop there. The recordings are split into stems (e.g. Drums, Bass, and Guitar) so you can create your own mix, muting elements and altering pitch or speed as you wish.
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“I’m using Moises now as part of my workflow for what I do, and I think it’s going to be a great tool for all of you — whether you are practicing, learning, or performing.”
“Moises is LITERAL magic in the way it can separate audio stems. It’s been invaluable to me from both a teaching and learning standpoint.”
“I started using Moises every day to create the perfect backing track possible to learn my favorite solos. It’s truly a game changer.”
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