If you’ve been with me for several months then you’ve been through the “Chord Chemistry”, the “CAGED System”, have learned a few scales and the “Circle of Fifths.” It’s now time to put some of this knowledge to use. Today’s post is a practice session for guitarists that uses the A major scale together with [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Scales’
Guitar Level: Advanced Chords are obviously very important to guitarists. In this post, I have enumerated the formulas needed for building a variety of chords using the scale of E as an example. The purpose of this post is not to have you memorize all of these different variations of the E chord. What is important [...]
The key of D is my favorite key to play on the guitar. In fact, as a routine, I will usually transpose any song in the keys of E-flat, E or F into the key of D and capo my guitar at the first, second and third fret accordingly so that I can use the [...]
Modulation: 1. “an inflection of the tone or pitch of the voice ; specifically : the use of stress or pitch to convey meaning” 2. “a change from one musical key to another” This past Sunday we sang the song “You Are My All in All” by Dennis Jernigan. It’s a song from [...]
The key of C is unique in that it has no sharps or flats. Shown above are three different configurations of the C-major scale drawn on the guitar fret board and a combination of all three scales shown in the right-most column. You can use these scales to create improvised solos for use over [...]
