As a guitarist, it’s important to learn scales in order to take your skills to the next level. Learning scales help you to understand the fretboard, play melodies with more ease and choose the right notes to improvise on your instrument. In this post, we will cover the essential guitar scales to practice for beginners … Read more
In music, triads are the foundational building blocks used to create chords. We use them to outline harmony, which is the “secret sauce” for creating melodic solos and fluid improvisation. In our previous lesson, we covered How to Practice Major Triads. Now that you have those shapes under your fingers, the transition to minor is … Read more
After learning your open chords on the guitar, you’ll soon want to know how to play sus 4 chords, which often come up in many popular songs. In this lesson, we’ll be covering the B sus 4 chord, which is short for suspended 4. The B sus 4 chord has an simple open chord shape but there … Read more
After learning your open chords on the guitar, you’ll soon want to know how to play sus 4 chords, which often come up in many popular songs. In this lesson, we’ll be covering the C sus 4 chord, which is short for suspended 4. The C sus 4 chord has a common open chord shape but there … Read more
After learning your open chords on the guitar, you’ll soon want to know how to play sus 4 chords, which often come up in many popular songs. In this lesson, we’ll be covering the G sus 4 chord, which is short for suspended 4. The G sus 4 chord has an easy open chord shape but there … Read more
Minuet in G, BWV Ahn. 114 is one of the most recognizable classical melodies and is commonly associated with Johann Sebastian Bach. However, the piece is actually composed by Christian Petzold as a part of Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach. This lesson covers the chords for Minuet in G Major, sheet music for the melody … Read more
A great way to learn the guitar is by mastering the basic chords and putting them together in a chord progression. This simply means a series of chords that are repeated to create the structure of a song. This lesson covers 7 easy guitar chord progressions to help you understand what chords work together. You can … Read more
This lesson covers 7 jazz and blues licks to get better at improvising over dominant 7th chords. The purpose of learning these licks (musical phrases) is to expand your vocabulary, break down the information, and use them as a guide to create your own lines. All the examples will be over a G 7 chord … Read more
Spanish Romance is one of the most popular classical guitar pieces with an unknown composer. This piece is referred to by different names such as Romanza, Romance de Amor, or Estudio en Mi de Rubira (Study in E by Rubira). The song is ideal for advanced beginners to intermediate level guitarists that are able to … Read more
After learning your open chords on the guitar, you’ll soon want to know how to play sus 4 chords, which often come up in many popular songs. In this lesson, we’ll be covering the E sus 4 chord, which is short for suspended 4. The E sus 4 chord has an easy open chord shape but there … Read more