Fretboard Knowledge 4: Major Scale on GuitarThe fretboard should be making a bit more sense to you now. Its essential that you commit the five CAGED chord shapes to memory as we...
Fretboard Knowledge 3: The CAGED SystemNow you can start seeing some pattern with octaves, I’d like to introduce you to the CAGED system. This is another way of building a...
Fretboard Knowledge 2: Octaves & looking for patterns Now you understand how the tuning of the guitar effects chord shapes lets take it a step further. We will learn how to look for the...
Fretboard Knowledge 1: Guitar TuningIf we look at a guitar fretboard we can see the notes are laid quite differently when compared to a piano: The notes on a piano are...
Basic Music Theory 4: Do As The Romans DoIn live band situations musicians will communicate chord progressions often referring to numbers. For example, you turn up to a jam night...
Basic Music Theory 2: Major ScaleThis is the ‘bread and butter’ of Western music. It consist of 7 notes derived from the 12 note chromatic scale. We can use the chromatic...