6th August
Hello
I hope to make this blog a useful place for you to visit often, to learn about playing guitar, and music theory, especially as applied to the guitar.
Bring your questions about music theory, and I will do my best to answer them, in a way that makes the ideas clear.
I have been playing guitar for more than twenty years, I am primarily a self taught guitarist, although I have worked with a few teachers, but not until I was an intermediate level player.
I have tried many different learning tools, books, cassette tapes, videos, dvd’s and lately, online teaching sites.
I will be sharing what I have found to be the best learning materials and sites, to make you a better guitar player, in the shortest possible time.
The biggest idea I would like to get across about learning guitar, online or with a teacher, or any other learning materials, is that buying every thing you can find about learning guitar, or paying the best teacher in the world for private leaaons, will not make you a better guitar player, unless you open up your guitar case, take out the guitar, and actually play some guitar!
I believe that playing music should be fun, (they don’t talk about “working” music, it’s playing music.) And, I will try to help you enjoy learning everything you want to learn.
Bass players are also welcome; I only recently started learning bass, about six months ago, so I am still a beginner. But many ideas that work on guitar, work on bass, also. And, music theory is the same, no matter the instrument; it’s only the application that changes. (I mean that chord, scale and mode theory is the same, but you can’t play guitar chords on a flute, for example.)
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30th August
Learn how to count intervals in music theory in this free video clip of the basic essentials of music theory for beginners.
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30th August
Learn the basic guitar chords, C, D, G, Em and Am.
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30th August
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For more on this lesson from Highintel click the link below,
http://guitarknowledgenet.com/gkn_member_lessons.php?lesson_id=35
How to learn all your chords on the neck by using the CAGED sequence! 5 Primary chord voicings used to construct any kind of chord by applying chord formulas.
Here are the voicings for all 5 shapes reading from the lowest tone or string.
C shape = 1-3-5-1-3
A shape = 1-5-1-3-5
G shape = 1-3-5-1-3-1
E shape = 1-5-1-3-5-1
D shape = 1-5-1-3
The numbers indicate the degree or note from the scale in which the notes were taken. example.. the C major scale consists of the notes C=1 D=2 E=3 F=4 G=5 A=6 B=7. When constructing a chord using a Tertian (Thirds) method you would select a note, and from that point select every other note, till you have a total of three notes. That’s how easy it is!
Example…If I select C=1 then I would skip D=2 and select E=3, skip F=4 and select G=5 giving me three notes C=1-E=3-G=5, or 1-3-5. Any combination of these three notes will play a C Major chord. This process can be continued from each note of the scale giving you the diatonic corrasponding chords.
C Major, D minor,E minor,F Major,G Major, A minor (Relative Minor), and B minor flat 5th or diminished 5th.
These are the chords you would use to compose a chord progression or vamp for writing in the key of C Major.
a good exercise for learning this is to make a blank guitar neck grid sheet. Replace all the notes with numbers starting with C as 1. Use this to find all the CAGED shapes. It is also great for melodic phrasing when learning how to use target notes. Target notes are notes to stress or resolve to that best capture the essence of the chord you are soloing over.
Example… If I am soloing over a C major chord I would stress the notes C E G or even B if it was a Major 7 chord. From the same key you will notice that a D minor chord uses D,F,A, or 2-4-6. Stress those tones if that chord comes up. This is obviously a generic way to play but a good foundation for understanding target notes and melodic soloing.
Hope this helps!
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30th August
http://www.nextlevelguitar.com In this lesson we teach great exercises on getting proficient at open chord to bar chord changes and chord changing techniques. More lessons at http://www.nextlevelguitar.com
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