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A Minor Pentatonic Scale – Comprehensive Theoretical Guide

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There are scarcely more ubiquitous scales in rock music than the A Minor pentatonic scale, or the minor pentatonic in just about any key signature for that matter! It has been at the forefront of just about any major development in mainstream rock music you can conceivably name, effectively there since its very genesis. Since […]

Learn the Basics of Jazz Guitar

Basics of Jazz Guitar

Many thanks to Marc-Andre Seguin from JazzGuitarLessons.net for providing this guest post. Learn more about the author at the end of the post.? Even if you have no intention of ever being a jazz guitarist, learning the vocabulary is essential to anyone looking to really expand their understanding of improvisational music and music in general. […]

What are Augmented Chords on Guitar

Augmented chords on guitar

A couple of weeks back I did a post on diminished chords, this week I?ll take a look at Augmented chords on guitar. First let?s take a look at chord structure and then we?ll get into the nitty gritty of the Augmented chord. This assumes you have some knowledge of the musical alphabet. If you?re […]

What are Diminished Chords on Guitar

Diminished Chords on guitar

Learning diminished chords on guitar is a great way to expand your repertoire and can also be a great tool for song writing. Not all styles of music make use of diminished (or augmented) chords but it?s still a good idea to have an understanding of what these are and how they can be used. […]

What Is a Key Signature: The Basics

What Is a Key Signature

What is a key signature ? and how do I tell what key signature a piece of music is in? And do I even need to know this for guitar? The answers to these questions (and hopefully other questions about key signatures) will be covered below. This is a discussion of the basics of key […]

The Relative Minor Pentatonic Scale and Why It?s So Good

relative minor pentatonic

If you a guitarist and you haven?t yet learned the minor pentatonic scale, then it?s a good idea to get out your guitar right now and learn it! This is especially so if you like to improvise, find yourself in situations where you need to improvise, might like to improvise in the future or if […]

What is a Relative Minor Plus Relative Minor Chart

Relative Minor Chart

Below you will find a relative minor chart that shows the relative minor for all of the major scales. But first let?s take a look at what a relative minor is. What?s a relative minor? Don’t worry, this isn’t going to be as complicated as the diagram on the right here makes it look! A […]

The Musical Alphabet on Guitar for Beginners

fretboard diagram with the musical alphabet

This is going to be a quick little article about the musical alphabet on guitar. This will be a very basic overview for those who are just getting into playing the guitar and haven?t played any other instrument and for those that already play but have never been exposed to musical theory. First, we?ll look […]

Circle of Fifths for Guitar Explained

Circle of Fifths for Guitar

Knowing the circle of fifths can really help with song writing, improvising and transposing, we created a short “how-to” lesson, easy to follow and remember.

How to Read Guitar Sheet Music

how to read music for beginners

This comprehensive article on how to read music will be particularly focused on guitarists wanting to learn to read music and will cover the basics of reading music. Let’s start with the notes on the staff. The Staff When looking at sheet music the staff is where all of your notes will be located. The […]

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