Scales And Chords Relationships
This tutorial explains how scales and chords are related to each other. You will also learn musical examples that show how to combine scales and chords.
Chords That Accompany the Notes in C Major
Whether you want to try your hand at song writing or just want to jam; it's a good idea to understand the relationship between the notes in a scale and the chords that accompany...
The Secret Power of I, IV, V (and beyond!)
Why can some people just pick up the guitar, and play a song they've never played before in their lives, seemingly by magic? Turns out the 'magic' starts with a very simple...
Introduction to Improvisation For Beginners
This tutorial introduces the concepts needed for the beginner to understand and learn how to improvise a single note melody, lead or solo over a major key chord progression. The...
Circle Of Fifths: An Introduction
By the end of this tutorial you should be able to understand the basic idea of the Circle of Fifths and how it is used in actual music.
Practice What You Preach
In these lessons you'll be putting all of our new chords into real time examples. It's time to put these chords into action and find out why country guitar sounds great when using...
Country Style Music Theory
Functional Harmony and the Nashville Number System are the foundations to country songwriting, session work and gigging. Here is a brief look at both.
Music Theory: a Brief Overview
Music Theory is the set of concepts that describes the nature of musical events. It is the process of mentally identifying the sounds that occur in music. We do this in order to...
Introduction to Improvisation in a Minor Key
This tutorial introduces the concepts needed for the beginner to understand and learn how to improvise a single note melody, lead or solo over a minor key chord progression. The...
Introduction to Improvisation in a Major Key
This tutorial introduces the concepts needed for the beginner to understand and learn how to improvise a single note melody, lead or solo over a major key chord progression. The...
Intervals for Beginners
What are intervals? This tutorial covers the basic concept of an interval as a musical distance and how to apply it on the guitar.
Pentatonic Scales: Boxes & Frameworks
In this tutorial series we will discuss pentatonic scales, patterns & shapes. We will use them to build pentatonic "frameworks" (or "box shapes") as a visual aid to see familiar...
Trick of the Week - September 7, 1998
This is a country style trick based on the extended version of the major pentatonic scale. The major pentatonic generally sounds more "light" or "country" than the minor...
