6 Ways To Get In Your Guitar In Tune
Standard tuning is the “default” tuning for the guitar. Most songs that you will learn will be in standard tuning. The tuning machines on the… Read More »6 Ways To Get In Your Guitar In Tune
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Changing Electric Guitar Strings (Strat Style)
Changing electric guitar strings is not that hard and something you should become comfortable doing on your own. You should change your strings on a… Read More »Changing Electric Guitar Strings (Strat Style)
Open Position C Shape Scale Pattern
What Is It?
There are 5 basic “shapes” of the pentatonic major scale on the guitar. They are C, A, G, E, and D. The shapes appear in the guitar’s open position. To play scales in other key signatures we must move one of the basic scales shapes up the fretboard similar to creating a barre chord.
I tend to call these shapes “the basic scale shapes/patterns”, but keep in mind that they are the same thing as the pentatonic scales and only have to add a 3rd and 6th scale step to make it the major scale. It’s not as technical as it sounds. I promise that it will make much more sense to you as you progress through these lessons.Read More »Open Position C Shape Scale Pattern
Chord Troubleshooting
When you’re first learning how to play chords, it can be very difficult! What Are The Challenges? First of all, it’s hard to get your… Read More »Chord Troubleshooting
“Unwell” by Matchbox 20
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Adding Fills: A
There are a lot of neat things we can do around the open A chord. In this lesson, I’ll give you some examples to practice… Read More »Adding Fills: A
Common Variations of 12 Bar Blues Chord Progressions
The 12-bar blues is one of the most popular chord progressions in popular music, including the blues. The blues progression has a distinctive form in chord structure and duration. It is, at its most basic, based on the I-IV-V chords of a key.
The 12 bar blues progression is the foundation of the blues. The whole blues genre is very minimalistic. Basically, all you need to get started is to learn the 12 bar blues progression and The Most Commonly Used Lead Pattern.Read More »Common Variations of 12 Bar Blues Chord Progressions