The Importance of Repertoire
In this short post I want to spend a few words on the importance of knowing tunes, either written by other musicians or by yourself. 'Repertoire' is often a fancy…
A tool to improve your improvising skills.
It's not a secret that one of my all time favourite guitar instructional books is The Advancing Guitarist by Mick Goodrich. One the exercises explained in this great book is about…
Triads Pt 2 Spread Voicings
We have seen in the previous lesson al the major triads in close (or closed) position. As already stated if these notes of the triad (or ‘voices’) are contained within…
Triads
In this lesson I go through all inversions for the most popular major triad 'shapes' on guitar. The theory behind triads is quite simple: a major triad is basically the…
Guitar Great Vic Juris: A couple of great video lessons.
I was lucky enough to study with Vic Juris in the early 90's. Today I stumbled into a couple of great lessons on youtube and I wanted to share them…
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 successful over 10k views just the day I posted!) , and let's see how…
Basic Music Theory for Beginners
Basic theory knowledge What follows is just a brief summary of basic theory and harmony necessary to understand practical applications on your instrument. The natural sounds are: English C D…
Interval Color for Soloing
One of the ways to fight 'patterns' playing is to explore all the intervals you can find in a scale. It is a really easy concept you can apply to…
Simple song analyzed
In this video I show some examples of very simple chord progressions that originate from the Harmonized Major Scale. When I say 'one, four, five' I mean the song is…
Understanding how triads and other chords are built
How to analyze triads and more advanced chords? The starting point is the major triad, in the example in C major, but this concept is valid for all keys, as…