Music theory for guitar players!
Let me show you how to expand your repertoire &
teach yourself to play the way you want to!
Level 2
C and Am. A Minor (Am) is the relative minor of C and it doesn’t have any sharps or flats either! You can spell the Am scale just like the C scale just starting on the A! Try it out!
Level 2
Strumming patterns. If we understand counting to 4 for each measure we can figure out some interesting strumming patterns for ourselves
Level 2
Pentatonic exercise. It’s surprising how nice the 1 and b3 sound- just those two notes -over 1/4/5 changes in a minor key. Plus, this is a useful way to practice the idea of “position”, meaning that the fret that your first finger is responsible for is the “position” you are in, on the neck. Try this play along exercise and download the attached PDF for tabs.
Level 2
Building Chords From the 5 string. There are some simple rules for building chord shapes. Once we understand them we can use them to play any chord we want! We’ll start with a major chord built from the 5 string.
Level 2
Major Scale Form Try this major scale form with the one note played with your second finger. That means whatever note that is, the position you play in will be the number of the fret before the one note. For instance, if you want to play an A major scale on two octaves, put your second finger on the A ( fifth fret of the 6 string) and start from there. You’ll notice that you can use your first finger to play the 7th too!
Level 2
find the name of any chord The chord namer will automatically name a chord shape (if a valid chord shape is supplied.) Simply select the circles on the fret board that correspond to where your fingers go and hit “Go”. A few things to watch out for:
Level 3
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Level 3
Blues guitar is great fun and pretty simple once you understand the scale numbers! The video above is an example of following a backing track and playing blues scale notes over the top as a melody line. You can hear how the chord tones and blues notes work with passing notes to create a cool bluesy-sounding melody.
Level 3
Chord Construction From Modes PDF download
Level 3
Natural Minor Scale PDF download
Level 5
Diatonic root notes, pentatonic pattern.
Useful finger placement exercise and it sounds pretty cool too
