Dan And Eric's Music Appreciation Hour

In tonight's edition of Emmy Award winning Dan and Eric's Music Appreciation Hour, we talk about the difference between rhythm and lead guitar. Eric tries to hold down a simple beat while Dan shreds a musical staff with one finger. A fun edition with lots of stuff you've always wondered about guitar.

In tonight's edition of Dan and Eric's Music Appreciation Hour, we review scales. Then we talk about harmonies, intervals and counterpoint (the elements of chords). Then we go into major chords, minor chords, suspended chords, and power chords (and then after a digression about Nirvana and power chords) we get into sixths, sevenths and other fancier (and slightly more dissonant) stuff.

Who thought scales could be so much fun? In tonight's edition of Music Hour, we go through the concept of a scale, the history of scales, different kinds of scales (major scales, the modes, the pentatonic scale and its modes, etc.) with our guitars plugged into the board for live demo. Includes some fresh theme music as is our custom — a fine way to spend 53 minutes, without commercial interruption.

In tonight's edition of Dan and Eric's Music Appreciation Hour, we groove on The Grateful Dead. As is necessary, we leave a lot out of the story, but the program is structured around the four major eras in the band's history, defined by the long-term keyboard players — Pigpen, Keith, Brent and Vince. We play some off the trodden path music and hang loose.

In tonight's somewhat late edition of Dan and Eric's Music Appreciation Hour, we absolutely positively appreciate Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Our music selection includes a trio divertimento, a symphony, an opera and a few other bits and bobs, ending with "name that tune." Here are the charts of Mozart's birth and death and his progressions at the time of his death. For additional resources and the chart, please see the full post.

In tonight's edition Dan and Eric's Music Appreciation Hour, Dan and Eric explain the blues. You'll get to hear a bit of Robert Johnson, one of the founders of the blues, and we bring Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page into the conversation.For additional information please see the full post.