Building 7th Chords From Triads
This lesson is a follow up to the lesson on figuring out the seven chords in any key. In that lesson, we took the major scale and stacked 3rds on each degree of the scale, to...
How To Master Basic Guitar Chords
How many chords do you need to know? That’s sort of a ‘how long is a piece of string?’ question, but in this case there is an answer, depending on what...
How To Figure Out The 7 Chords In Any Key
Why is a chord a chord? It’s a question philosophers have grappled with since the beginning of time. Ok, not really, but it is the subject of this lesson. Guitarists have a...
Triads and Chord Inversions on the Guitar
Most guitarists play chords by learning shapes. By learning commonly used shapes, you have the tools to play thousands of songs. This is a great way to enter the world of...
How To Improvise When You Never Have
What would you do if you had to improvise a guitar solo and had never done it before? Let’s say you were in a band situation and you only had a few minutes to figure out what...
A Guide to CAGED Arpeggios
If you’ve been reading up on the many lessons relating to scales on this site, you will most likely know the importance of learning scales in five positions (known as...