Gutiar Intervals are one of those things in music that should be simple but seem so hard! When you understand how they work they are really easy, but to a beginner they often make little to no sense at all! So what are intervals? Intervals are best described as the distance between two notes. Lets look… Continue Reading
Open G tuningopen up a whole new world of possibilities for guitarists. It can be used to create melodies that aren’t physically possible in standard tuning. It can be used to create interesting chords that leave other guitarists confused about how to play them. But, there is one thing in particular that open… Continue Reading
Previously in this series about guitar chord construction we talked about 4 part chords. Specifically major 7th and dominant 7th chords. This post share how to construct minor 7th and minor7b5. Minor 7th To make this chord we need to start with a minor triad. Once again we will work in the key of F… Continue Reading
Lets continue our look at Guitar Chord Construction. If you missed the previous posts, you can find them at the links below. Guitar Chords Construction – How To Build Guitar Triads Guitar Chords Construction – Diminished, Augmented and Sus4 Today we are going to look at 4 part chords. 4 part chords are typically used… Continue Reading
Ear training is a weird sounding concept (no pun intended). We hear sound every day so why do we need to train our ears? It isn’t so much about just hearing things, more about how deeply you are hearing things. Ask yourself this, Can you recognize the difference between a saxophone and a trumpet just by… Continue Reading
Lets soldier on with Guitar Chords Construction. We have talked about how major and minor triads are built. This time we will look at Diminished, Augmented and Sus4 triads. Diminished Triads This chord is not the nicest sounding chord you will come across. It is the sort of chord that is used for the… Continue Reading
So you have been learning the guitar for a while now. It has been a couple of weeks of maybe a month or two. You have learned some cool riffs and some chords yet they still don’t sound great. In fact to be quite honest they sound terrible. You feel like your not getting anywhere… Continue Reading
Lately I’ve been finding that I’ve haven’t been practicing my guitar enough. I’ve been so wrapped up in other areas of my life that my own personal practice has been suffering. In spite of this my guitar playing has not gone downhill. This is because as a guitar teacher I play guitar every day… Continue Reading
The world of chord construction is a dark mystical one. Well not really. We have all came across chords and had absolutely no idea what they are. Amajor7#5 D7b9 E7#4b13 Thankfully, a lot of these chords don’t come up all to often. In fact the really crazy ones only really come up in Jazz music. However, that… Continue Reading
Every time we practice, we are devaloping our ears. We are conditioning them to hear sounds. Each sound becomes more defined and clear to you the more you expose them to differnt sounds. Sort of like how you are able to distinguish colours from one another. When you see a Red guitar you… Continue Reading
