Today I will be talking about moveable chords. This is a lesson I taught myself when I was asked to play guitar in a high school play. The play director liked my playing and handed me chord sheets for the whole musical. It had a few chords that I knew (like G, Cm, A, etc...) but a lot that I didnt know (F9, Cmaj7, D6, basically any chrord that had...

Today I will be talking about how to expand you tone with your current set-up. Most people look to change their amp settings, pedal settings, or strings to enhance their tone, but the answer (literally) already lies in their hands:

The guitar.

I am not saying you should buy a new guitar, but rather utilize all the parts of your instrument to create...

USING THE SPIDER EXERCISE

The Spider is kind of like an arpeggiated chromatic finger exercise. The first finger plays all the notes on the 5th fret, the second covers the 6th, third the 7th, and fourth the 8th. The result is that the fingers crawl vertically up and down the fret board a bit like a spider.

|5-6---7-----8-------------------------------...

Constants and symmetry add continuity to a song, and help it to flow smoothly through the changes.

CONSTANTS

Constants are melodic, harmonic, or time factors that remain the same throughout a section of music. They help knit the section together by padding out the cracks or simply providing stability in the form of comfortable sameness.

First example...

POWER CHORDS

In music, a power chord (also fifth chord) is a chord consisting of only the root note of the chord and the fifth interval, usually played on electric guitar. On Ultimate Guitar you will see that power chords are listed with a 5 next to them. Remember this.

There are many power chords that a beginner should get acquainted with and many...

We all get into ruts from time to time. Usually ending up in a ruts is the result of doing the same things over and over again while practicing. The sneaky thing about getting stuck in a rut is that it happens gradually, so we don't usually notice it until we've been there for awhile. At the highest conceptual level getting out of a rut is usually...

This is my second "Beginner / Slightly-Better-Than-Beginner Transition" lesson.

We will be picking up where we left off with more equipment

The Capo ¡V This is a piece of "equipment" which allows you to increase the 
           pitch of your guitar by one fret (or more depending on where you 
           place the capo on the fret-board. ...

This is my new series “Fretboard Basics”. Through this series we will learn how to navigate the fretboard, chord construction, learn the major and minor scales and basic song writing techniques. This series is a follow up to my “Beginner Basics” lessons and is intended for the beginner audience. Enjoy!

Hello there and welcome to Part 2 of my...

Hey,

For this lesson i'm going to keep it real simple, so if your an arpeggio master probably best to move on, but this is still a pretty valuable warm of for experienced players looking to cover the basics in an interesting way.

Lets start with C, a nice note, I'm sure you know that we could build a major scale on it using notes that go in an...