Blues Scale Guitar Positions - How to play all 5 shapes beginning guitarist blues related fretboard mapping lead guitar scale types in 5 positions (root to root) scales May 18, 2021

Blues scale guitar positions allow us to play the blues scale ALL OVER the guitar fretboard instead of just in one spot. It takes some time to get the other positions down, but it’s worth it.

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Minor Pentatonic Scale Guitar Positions - All 5 shapes beginning guitarist fretboard mapping lead guitar scale types in 5 positions (root to root) scales May 11, 2021


Here’s all five of the minor pentatonic scale guitar positions. You’re maybe really familiar with one of these minor pentatonic shapes, but knowing ALL the scale positions on the guitar is so freeing. 

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Major Pentatonic Scale Guitar Positions - All 5 shapes beginning guitarist fretboard mapping lead guitar scale types in 5 positions (root to root) scales May 04, 2021

There are five major pentatonic scale guitar positions and we often neglect all but one or two of them. Get all five of these major pentatonic positions down with this handy guitar scale exercise.  

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Minor Scale Guitar Patterns - They're modes of major! beginning guitarist free download: top 3 pentatonic patterns fretboard mapping lead guitar scale types in 5 positions (root to root) scales Apr 27, 2021

Minor scale guitar patterns happen to just be modes of major scale patterns, but they only become minor when we focus on the minor scale root. Here’s how to make minor scales SOUND minor.

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Major Scale Guitar Patterns - How to REALLY know them beginning guitarist fretboard mapping lead guitar scale types in 5 positions (root to root) scales technique Apr 20, 2021

Major scale guitar patterns allow us to see notes within a major scale grouped together in positions on the guitar. Definitely learn these 5 patterns but practice them this way to see all the scale roots.

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Quartal Harmony - all about quartal chords chord melodies chord theory series: how to learn guitar chords - beginner to advanced chords free download: top 3 pentatonic patterns fretboard mapping improvisation jazz guitar modes music theory rhythm guitar scales Apr 06, 2021

A comprehensive guide to quartal harmony and quartal chords for guitar including harmonizing the pentatonic scale with quartal chords. These are stacked 4ths guitar chords and they’re so cool!

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Functional Harmony (& Chord Substitutions) chord theory series: how to learn guitar chords - beginner to advanced chords free download: chords with color music theory scales songwriting / composing Mar 30, 2021

This video is all about functional harmony and chord substitutions. I explain functional harmony in general and then show how songwriters can use it to find chord substitutions.

Weekly Lesson #68

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Chords of the Melodic Minor Scale chord theory series: how to learn guitar chords - beginner to advanced chords free download: chords with color jazz guitar music theory scales Mar 16, 2021

These are the chords of the melodic minor scale. Learn the triad & 7th chords of the melodic minor scale with clear chord shape diagrams.

Weekly Lesson #66

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Chords of the Harmonic Minor Scale chord theory series: how to learn guitar chords - beginner to advanced chords free download: chords with color music theory scales Mar 09, 2021

This lesson is all about how to learn and practice the chords of the harmonic minor scale

Weekly Lesson #65

 

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Have you ever encountered this chord?: EbMaj7(#5).

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How to Make 7th Chords - Guitar Theory Lesson (chords series, Ep. 8) beginning guitarist chord theory series: how to learn guitar chords - beginner to advanced chords music theory scales Dec 08, 2020

This is a lesson on the music theory of how to make 7th chords - Guitar chords don't have to just be shapes we memorize!

I've had students who knew a bunch of awesome chord shapes but were stuck not making progress.

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Chords in a key | How to find guitar chords that sound good together beginning guitarist chord theory series: how to learn guitar chords - beginner to advanced chords music theory scales Nov 10, 2020


Guitar chords that sound good together are usually the chords in a key. When I first learned how to find them, guitar playing became so much easier!
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Guitar Chord Tones - Know what you're playing! beginning guitarist chord theory series: how to learn guitar chords - beginner to advanced chords free download: chords with color music theory practice strategy & outlook scales Nov 03, 2020

This third lesson on how to learn guitar chords dives into the music theory of finding and labeling guitar chord tones for any chord.

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