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Breaking Down the Barriers: The Relationship Between Keys, Chords, and Scales
Seymour Duncan pickups can make your guitar look and sound as cool as this one. What is a key? We have all heard that term before, as in ‘What key is this song in?’ When we first start out playing...
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Breaking Down the Barriers: Understanding Modes of the Major Scale, Pt 1
Understanding what modes actually are is the first step to using them effectively as an improvising guitarist. It is all part of understanding what we like when we’re listening to or learning a song....
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Why Are There 12 Frets To The Octave?
The guitar is a problem-haunted instrument. Because of its construction it can never be 100% in tune. As I wrote in my previous blog, the frets are positioned in a compromised way as to make it as...
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Evolution In Music Pedagogy
I started my walk on the musical road to perdition not as a guitarist, but as a singer. I received a fairly traditional, classical education. I learned to read notes, solfege (learning relative...
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Chord Scales in the Key of Awesome
Wait, I am already learning chords and scales… you’re telling me there are also things called Chord Scales? Yes! Chords scales are not only useful when composing, but also in improvisation. When...
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Music Theory Minute: Inversions
By Dave Eichenberger The first thing we learn as guitarists are usually some basic chords. These chords contain very specific notes played with shapes that every guitarist has used for well over 100...
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