Balboa Guitars

04/24/2024

Lower Manhattan 1975

02/29/2024

An excerpt from the previous upload ...

An animated excerpt of the previous upload, in which we examine the symmetrical nature of the tritone and its central place in the diatonic key structure.

08/10/2023

In which a guitar player considers the use and misuse of mnemonics in music theory ... 00:00 Intro 00:18 — Not All Mnemonics are Equal00:40 — Good Mnemonics/...

06/01/2023

https://youtu.be/nDJ8RG7BezU

In which a guitar player examines the math of the physics of music, and the use of numbers as labels within the language of music theory.This is an overview ...

04/18/2023

The Map!

Is it possible to have a standard map of the diatonic system on the guitar fretboard?Certainly! Since the notes of each diatonic key are based on the same lo...

02/11/2020

More repair work ...

02/11/2020

Recent repair work ...