This lesson is a collection of tips that will help you get the most out of these lessons and your practice.
Lessons @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
Why do I want to learn it? Interesting question! After years of playing the guitar by ear I started having lessons a few years back, but have increasingly felt that there was something missing – learning lots of stuff, but having no overview of the fr…
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Chris at The Guitar Lesson Review Blog has posted a review of Dan Denley’s Lead Guitar Secrets course.He gives it a strong recommendation — and he has tried it out.
I’d give a strong recommendation that you visit his site and read the full review and see if this course on soloing is for you.
WADE
A brief lesson detailing some pitfalls to watch out for whilst starting to play guitar. Some tips and ideas on how avoid these pitfalls and remain motivated in your practice.
Lessons @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
Tired of practicing your scales straight up and down? This article will help you bring some life to your scales, and train your ears at the same time.
Lessons @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
Although I knew about and occasionally used the Major 7th chords while playing rock and country, I really didn’t get into them deeply until I started studying jazz guitar.
Here is a terrific introductory article by Chris at The Guitar Lesson Review Blog — and I couldn’t improve on it, so I’m sharing it with you in total.
WADE
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In a previous post on the topic of guitar chord theory, I talked about how regular major chords are created from the 1, 3 & 5th notes of the major scale.
To recap, here are the C Major scale notes, with the 1, 3, 5 notes highlighted:
which leads to the regular C Major chord as played in open position on the guitar: Read more on Guitar Chord Theory – Seventh Chords…
The Caged Guitar Forum is now up and running.
So if you are interested in commenting or questions about the system (Featured in this very blog with a couple of introductory videos this past week) go register — for free — and check it out.
It’s something I wish I’d known about at least 20 years ago … but now I am getting more and more excited the more I explore it.
Wade
Basics Of CAGED Guitar System
I learned to play guitar to accompany myself while singing.
It took me a while to work up proficiency to play in any key, but some songs sound better in one key than another. An “E” chord has a distinctive sound and a “G” chord has a different sound. If you like the key of E but sing in the key of G — what will you do?
Well, there is this little gizmo called a capo (KAY-poe) that adjusts the guitar strings so that you can play with your fingers on familiar chords, but be in a whole different key.
It also works great if you are jamming and the other folks play a song you know in a key different than what you’ve practiced.
Details and pictures after the jump —
The CAGED system is a handy way of helping you to get to know the guitar and guitar music. Many guitarists have found this way of seeing the notes and chords an easy way to begin to understand guitar music and improvisation. The CAGED system is not for raw beginners. You need to know the location on the fretboard of the root notes of the chords C A G E and D.
Here is a video explaining the simplicity of using the CAGED system:
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This lesson covers the use of the ionian mode which you will use to improvise over the I chord.
Improvisational Guitar