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OC Music Center Opens Yamaha Music School in R.S.M. Offering Music Lessons and Band Instrument Rentals for South Orange County – Yahoo! News

OC Music Center of Rancho Santa Margarita is all about music, kids and education. The family music store is focused on providing musical services to the South Orange County communities of Ladera Ranch, Coto de Caza, Mission Viejo and Lake Forest. OC Music features Yamaha music classes for children, private music lessons on guitar and other instruments for all ages, school band & orchestra instrument rentals, along with reasonably priced musical instrument sales and service.

(PRWEB) August 20, 2010 — OC Music Center just opened the area’s first authorized Yamaha Music School serving the communities of Rancho Santa Margarita, Ladera Ranch, Coto de Caza, Mission Viejo and Lake Forest. The vast majority of musical educatioin experts agree that, “Yamaha offers the most comprehensive music training in the world – and is especially effective for children ages 4-8 years old.” In fact, there are currently over 400,000 students in Yamaha schools worldwide, in over 40 different countries.

In addition to having the prestigious Yamaha School on site, OC Music Center also offers private instruction on voice and many other popular instruments including: guitar, piano, violin, viola, cello, flute, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, trombone and ukulele – just to name a few. The store’s music teachers are personally screened by owner Jeff Gill to insure that they are competent, patient and encouraging. Moreover, all OCM teachers are required to have either advanced music degrees, extensive professional experience, or both.

OC Music also specializes in musical instrument rentals for beginning school band and orchestra students. And for this back-to-school season they are going all-out to serve these new young musicians in South Orange County by renting “brand new” Yamaha instruments. It is very unusual to find a store that rents out brand new instruments, let alone brand new “Yamaha” instruments! And to their credit, OCM rental pricing is very competitive – starting at $25.00 per month for violins, flutes and clarinets.

OC Music Center is located in the heart of R.S.M. on Empresa at Santa Margarita Pkwy., near the Post Office. They are open during the week from 10:00am to 7:00pm and Saturdays until 3:00pm. If you want music lessons or need a rental instrument for school, do yourself a favor and visit them online at www.ocmusiccenter.com or call 949.858.0900. Owner Jeff Gill would love an opportunity to share some of his 30+ years experience by helping you get started on a wonderful journey of musical discovery.

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Sooner or later you are going to take your guitar along to a casual sing-a-long type jam and hope that someone will start singing in the only key you know.

Or perhaps you’ll be playing along, converting the chords you know, quite well until someone pulls the plug out by saying, “Do it in A flat”. This is followed by an embarrasing five minutes while you struggle to find chord changes in this unfamiliar tonality.

It happens to everyone, so read through to the chart at the end of this article and let a little light in.

There are twelve major keys. Each one has a minor key closely associated with it – this is called the relative minor.

Each key (major or minor) has the same basic relationships.

Any melody or chord progression can be played in all twelve keys. this was not always so. Earlier European music systems utilized modes that did not have this quality.

The introduction of the piano around 1720 helped consolidate this “one Key relationship transposable to twelve different levels” as the system best suited to the needs of Central European musicians.

The name given to it is:-

The diatonic system or tonal system

The name simply refers to the fact that all notes and chords constantly resolve back to one Key point – the tonal centre or footnote of the scale.

There is a key for every note, but 99% of folk or song accompaniment on guitar takes place in six of these -

C, D, E, F, G or A.

In each of these keys there are three chords which will almost invaribly be used. In the Key of C the most likely chords you will encounter are :-

C F G7

In order, these chords are called in musical terminology -

C – the tonic, F – the subdominant, G7- the dominant

In the diatonic scale

C D E F G A B C

the TONIC is the chord built on the 1st degree (C)

the SUBDOMINANT is the chord built on the 4th degree (F)

the DOMINANT is the chord built on the 5th degree (G7)

A simple way to find the three principle chords of any Key is to begin counting a specific number up from the tonic of the Key chord.

e.g., In the key of C the tonic is the C chord.

Then by counting up four full notes from the tonic chord, C D, E then F you arrive at the subdominant of the C Key.

To find the dominant simply move up to the next scale note (G), or count five full notes up from the tonic chord.

C, D, E, F then G

Dominant chords are usually sevenths – so now you know the whereabouts of the three main chords in the Key of C.

Of course these three chords are not necessarily the only chords used in songs but merely serve as guidelines in finding all the chords of a tune. However thousands of folk songs and pop tunes are playable with these three.

Here is a chart of the 3 main chords in each Key.

Tonic (key) – Subdominant – Dominant

Tonic – C, Subdominant – F, Dominant – G7

Tonic – F, Subdominant – Bb, Dominant – C7

Tonic – Bb, Subdominant – Eb, Dominant – F7

Tonic – Eb, Subdominant – Ab, Dominant – Bb7

Tonic – Ab, Subdominant – Db, Dominant – Eb7

Tonic – Db, Subdominant – Gb, Dominant – Ab7

Tonic – Gb, Subdominant – Cb (or B), Dominant – Db7

Tonic – B, Subdominant – E , Dominant – F#7

Tonic – E, Subdominant – A, Dominant – B7

Tonic – A , Subdominant – D, Dominant – E7

Tonic – D, Subdominant – G, Dominant – A7

Tonic – G, Subdominant – C, Dominant – D7

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