The Mixolydian Mode is popular among jazz and blues guitarists, but it can also be found in other genres such as rock, folk, classical, country, and pop. Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd and LA Woman by the Doors are two songs that use the Mixolydian mode. This lesson will teach you how to play …
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Harmony, or the chords that support a melody, is an important element of music, and sad guitar chords and chord progressions are required if you want to write sad and emotional music. A chord is a collection of notes performed together, whereas a chord progression is a series of two or more chords played in …
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Nothing makes me want to bang my head to the wall harder than hearing someone insist that natural talent is what makes great guitar players great. There are three reasons why this claim gets my blood boiling. It convinces guitar students who don’t yet know if they have any natural talent or not to quit …
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Pentatonic scales are popular in many genres of music and like its minor counterpart the major pentatonic scale is used in Country, Pop, Rock, Blues, Jazz, Reggae and Folk among others. In this lesson you will learn the 5 major pentatonic scale patterns that cover the whole guitar fretboard. With each pattern you will be …
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One of the first things a beginner needs to learn on the guitar is a few chords. These make it possible to start learning songs. The good news is that most songs are made of the first guitar chords you will be learning in this lesson. The 15 guitar chords you should learn first are …
The Lydian mode is used in various genres of music such as Jazz, Fusion, Folk, Rock and Classical. Guitar virtuosos known for their use of the Lydian mode include Joe Satriani and Steve Vai. The sound of the Lydian mode can be described as bright, happy, optimistic and heavenly. In this lesson you will learn …
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A guitar chord is a group of notes played at the same time on the guitar. A triad is the most basic form of chord, one that has three notes. A triad is in inversion when the root note is not in the bass. In this lesson you will learn how to play triads in …
A step by step way to learn barre chords on guitar with no pain in the process “You think that’s hard? Wait until you learn how to play barre chords.” Many beginner guitar students hear statements like this, or harrowing stories from other students who tried to learn barre chords and found them painful on …
Learning how to play the guitar and learning how to write songs are two different sets of skills. It took me a long time to understand this. As a consequence it took me longer to start writing songs due to my false belief that I needed to get better on the guitar before I could. …
In this lesson I will show you how to understand and read time signatures. You will also be given musical examples to play on the guitar to get the feel of different time signatures in music. What are time signatures? If you look at the beginning of any piece of music, next to the treble …
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