Chords
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How to Solo Over Chord Changes (Part 6)
In Part 6, we look at the mysterious world of 11 and #11 chords and how to simplify the process…
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How to Solo Over Chord Changes (Part 4)
In Part 4 of this series of blog posts, we look at how to decode chords and compare improvising with…
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5 Types of Power Chords to Enhance Your Playing
If you’re a guitarist of the rock, metal, punk or even blues persuasion, one of the first things you learned…
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Guitar Hacks: Making the Connection Between Chords and Scales
This little guitar hack is particularly useful if you’re at that stage in your learning where you want to know…
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Guitar Hacks for Soloing Over Complicated Chords
If you’re comfortable soloing over major/minor and seventh chords, but things get a little shaky when you have to come…
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5 Steps to Knowing Which Chords Are In Any Key
When you come to write your own material as a solo artist, band member, composer, or anything else, you’re going…
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Holdsworthian Diatonic Chords
The way Allan Holdsworth thought about chords as being groups of (usually 4) notes from a scale blew my mind…
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Guitar Chords and Language Learning
Chords and Language LearningYou’ve probably heard the phrase, ‘learning music is like learning a language’, bandied around by musicians, and…
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How to Come Up with Funk Chords on the Fly
My first guitar teacher was and still is a great funk player. I’d go see him play at the local…
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How to See Music Theory on the Guitar Fretboard
For the most part I taught myself to play guitar. I spent a year at Music College and had a…