From the major scale to (hopefully) understanding how things work.

Most used 7th guitar chord shapes

In this video I show the most common 7th chord shapes, it’s all pretty self explanatory! for…

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Harmonized major scale with 7th chords on guitar

We have seen in previous lessons how to build the harmonized scale from the major scale. In…

Intervals Explained pt 2: practical application on guitar.

We have seen in this post http://www.trueguitarist.com/intervals-explained/ what intervals are in theory and how the simplest and safest…

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Triads Pt 2 Spread Voicings

We have seen in the previous lesson al the major triads in close (or closed) position. As…

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Triads

In this lesson I go through all inversions for the most popular major triad ‘shapes’ on guitar….

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Basic Music Theory for Beginners Pt 2:on Guitar, Practical Application.

Basic theory knowledge pt 2: on Guitar! Let’s now go back to the basic theory post (quite…

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Basic Music Theory for Beginners

Basic theory knowledge What follows is just a brief summary of basic theory and harmony necessary to…

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Chord scale exercise

Printable PDF: Chord-Scale Ex. This is an introduction to how to use the right scale for the…

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Simple song analyzed

In this video I show some examples of very simple chord progressions that originate from the Harmonized…

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From the major scale to the harmonized scale (Pt.2 7th chords)

How to add the 7th to triads from the major harmonized scale? We have already seen how…

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