Subject: A Blast From The Past
A Blast From The Past
August 19th, 2016 at 12:00 pm EDTHey Friend, While I was looking for something interesting to share with you today (taking a little break from the chords of C major), I came across an article talking about a classic guitar solo that has never really gotten much attention. Most of th ...
C to G Major
August 18th, 2016 at 8:27 am EDTHey Friend, Now that we've reached G major, all three of the major chords in the key of C major have been accounted for. We now have the I chord, C major, the IV chord, F major and the V chord, G major. Countless Rock songs have been created using ju ...
G Major Barre Chords
August 17th, 2016 at 8:29 am EDTHey Friend, By now, the barre chords I've been showing you should be coming a little easier. Since you've had exercises every week that have been training your fingers to hold the chords, they should be getting used to the fingerings and getting stro ...
G Major Positions
August 16th, 2016 at 8:33 am EDTHey Friend, Let's look at the various triads you have available to you for G major chords. The first five give you the shapes from the CAGED system. We've also got good representation from each inversion. Four of the chords are root inversions with t ...
G Major Intro - With Exercises
August 15th, 2016 at 9:58 pm EDTHey Friend, I got the exercise files finished up and the link is below... Sorry for the delay! ---------------------------------------------------------- G Major is the V chord in the key of C major. It gives us the third chord shape we can use for ...
G Major Intro
August 15th, 2016 at 8:33 am EDTHey Friend, G Major is the V chord in the key of C major. It gives us the third chord shape we can use for any major chord as we see in the CAGED method. Here's the key and scale again: I IIm IIIm IV V VIm VII°C Dm Em F G Am B° The notes for G majo ...
Learning Songs
August 14th, 2016 at 12:29 pm EDTHey Friend, Are you Beatles fan? Do you realize the influence their songwriting and music has had on the course of Rock music? Something Joe Walsh once said has stuck with me. He said “Here’s what I would tell a young musician starting out today ...
Week 7 Review
August 13th, 2016 at 12:33 pm EDTHey Friend, Here we go... here we go... everybody's gonna get down... let's go! (Another fun song from Bowling For Soup, used in one of the Scooby Doo films) The Week 7 Review. We rocked out the F major chord, in all sorts of iterations. We also tal ...
Oh, The Possibilities
August 12th, 2016 at 8:40 am EDTHey Friend, I thought today, since it's FRIDAY(!!!), I'd take a little departure from the straight-up chord instruction and give you a little peek into the possibilities that await you as you get more and more familiar with all the various chords and ...
C Major to F Major
August 11th, 2016 at 8:29 am EDTHey Friend, Moving between the C major and F chords (at least the triad versions) should be fairly easy for you to master quickly. You're already well-versed with the open C chord, and getting to F major is literally just shifting your middle and rin ...