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How to Accurately Name Chords on Guitar
How to Accurately Name Chords on Guitar
The way to name chords on guitar can be a bit subjective, although the system that is taught in most universities and music schools revolves around whether the chord we are naming contains a 7th, and to a lesser extent, a third.
If a chord does not contain a 7th, then extensions are generally referred to by using the word ‘add’ in the name.
1 Simple Guitar Exercise That Will Transform Your Chord Playing Today
Jazz Chord Playing: 1 Simple Guitar Exercise That Will Transform Your Chord Playing Today
As guitarists, we know how important it is to have a secure and varied vocabulary of chord voicings under our fingers in order to make the gig, come up with a cool reharmonization or write an interesting chord progression for our next song.Today’s lesson will dramatically advance your jazz chord playing.
While we know that it is important to have a strong command of harmony on the guitar, we often don’t know where to start, or feel that we need to learn a ton of hard to play and tricky chord fingerings in order to accomplish this goal in our chord playing. Continue reading
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The Practical Guide to Modern Music Theory for Guitarists is Released Today!
My New Book on Modern Music Theory is Released Today!
I’m very excited to announce that book, ‘The Practical Guide to Modern Music Theory for Guitarists’ was released today and stormed into Amazon’s best seller chart for Kindle in the US and UK.
The books is competitively priced at under $8 and contains over 2.5 hours of audio examples and backing tracks. There are over 200 individual notated examples demonstrating everything from basic major scale construction and harmonisation, to advance soloing substitutions for every major mode.
The book is designed to take you from basic first principles all the way through to more advance concepts, such as minor Pentatonic substitution, diatonic arpeggios and much more.
The emphasis is on putting ideas into practice. You can hear each and every theoretical concept demonstrated on the accompanying audio files (available for free download) and quickly learn to incorporate the new ideas into your playing.
The extensive chapter titles include (among many others!) such topics as:
What is a Scale?
The Circle of 5ths
Relative Minor Keys
Harmonising the Major Scale
The Roman Numeral System
Chords from Outside the Key
Extensions
How to Name Chords
What is a Mode?
And for every mode:
Typical Chord Progressions
5 Useful Licks
Soloing Approaches to the Mode
2-Note Intervals
3-Note Triads
4-Note Arpeggios
5-Note Pentatonic Scales
First Choice Soloing Summary for the Mode
In all there are over 100 pages of clear, concisely written music theory that will make you a better player. Why not check it out today?
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How to Hold a Guitar Pick
How to Hold a Guitar Pick (Plectrum)
Plectrums are quite tricky to get used to at first, and how to hold a guitar pick is one of the most common problems to correct with new students, especially adults who have been playing a while.