How To Play The E Minor Pentatonic Scale On Guitar
February 4, 2024Although the guitar isn’t tuned to a specific key, it does lend itself to certain keys. And because of the guitar’s unique standard tuning, one of the great keys to play guitar in is E. Because of this, it’s important to be familiar with scales in E. A lot of great songs are written in […]
How To Play The A Minor Pentatonic Scale On Guitar
December 7, 2023Although I encourage beginners to simply learn the minor pentatonic scale shapes on guitar, this method doesn’t work for everybody. Some players like to see where they can play a scale for a given key everywhere on the guitar. Because of this, this lesson will outline everywhere you can play an A minor pentatonic scale […]
What Key Is A Guitar In?
October 31, 2023You’ve probably heard of a “key” as it relates to music and wondered what key a guitar is in. The short answer is that it’s not in a specific key, that’s not really how it works. The longer answer is, like a lot of instruments, the guitar is more suited to certain keys than others. You […]
How To Play Major Scales On Guitar
August 12, 2023In Western music, the humble major scale is pretty much the building block of music. Yes, there are musical modes out there, but they’re better understood through major scales. Major scales form the key of a song, and ultimately, chords are built on degrees of a scale. While there are a ton of different scales […]
Finding Sevenths On Guitar
August 8, 2023When it comes to intervals in music, the 7th is the biggest one before you get to an octave and start going around again. Knowing where common intervals fall across guitar strings is a useful skill to have for both improvising and working out guitar chords quickly and easily. This guitar lesson looks specifically at […]
What Is A Blues Turnaround?
August 6, 2023Blues music is usually played over a 12 bar pattern. That’s usually. Blues music doesn’t need to be over 12 bars, but you’ll find that a lot of Blues music is played over 12 bars. Until you find the whole bunch of Blues songs that are over 10 bars. Or some other number. Or a Blues song […]
Finding Sixths On Guitar
July 26, 2023A 6th is a musical interval that spans 9 semitones (9 frets) for a major 6th and 8 semitones (8 frets) for the minor 6th. What interesting about the minor 6th is that it appears in the natural minor and the harmonic minor, but not the melodic minor. This article isn’t about minor scales though; I’ll […]
Finding Fourths On Guitar
July 18, 2023In music, an interval is just the space between two notes, usually relating back to the difference in relation to a major scale. So, for example, the interval of a 3rd is four semitone (4 frets). The interval of a 4th is 5 semitones (5 frets) because a major scale, starting at the root (1) […]
How To Play Minor Blues Pentatonic Scales On Guitar
June 28, 2023The Blues pentatonic scale (sometimes also called the minor Blues scale) is, as you can probably guess, a type of pentatonic scale used for Blues music. However, you’re welcome to use this scale to spice up soloing and lead lines in other types of music, especially Jazz and Rock music. Before jumping into this scale, […]
Finding Seconds On Guitar
June 26, 2023While a 2nd is not as common a musical interval as some, like everything, it’s important to be able to find intervals on guitar. Finding chord intervals like a 3rd or a 5th are probably the most important ones to know, so once you know those, what next? Let’s talk about 2nds. Compared to some […]
