Chord Construction – Major and Minor
The first lesson by our latest author Dr.Furqan Ali Shah looks at constructing the major and minor chords. This is a good place to start seriously learning about music theory.
Continue reading »Written by FurK on Monday 4th May 2009
Drop 2 Chord Voicings
One of the most important skills that a guitarist needs to have is the ability to build and understand chord voicings. The old days of buying chord books and trying to memorize 1000′s of chords is not only a daunting task but also is needless and generally a waste of time. It is so much easier to learn how chords are voiced and to be able to build chords as you need to by some relatively basic steps that can be easily learned . This lesson teaches you the Drop 2 voicing.
Continue reading »Written by Alex on Friday 11th August 2006
Drop 3 Chord Voicings
This article is about the Drop 3 chord voicing for the guitar. This is one of the most important voicings and the one used by more Jazz and blues guitarists because of its versatillity and wealth of useable inversions and possible alterations and reductions. Enough said about this voicing, let’s get into its structure and shapes.
Continue reading »Written by Alex on Friday 11th August 2006
Mode Applications
In modern times Modes are being used as compositional and improvisational tools but it is sometimes confusing how to apply them. For this reason it is important to have a basic understanding of how modes relate in a chord/scale relationship.
Continue reading »Written by Alex on Sunday 21st May 2006
Pentatonic Scale Basics
A popular scale cropping up all over the place, especially in rock music, is the minor pentatonic scale. Even if you haven’t heard of this before, you have probably already played it without knowing. It’s a very simple piece of musical knowledge, and is a great place to start out (if you’re perhaps a beginner) in learning your way around the fretboard.
Continue reading »Written by Alex on Sunday 21st May 2006