If you’re looking for a traditional music theory course that is taught from a piano player’s perspective and emphasizes the reading of standard notation and the playing of classical music and show tunes, look elsewhere. If you want to know why the opening chords to “Stairway to Heaven” work so well together or how Carlos Santana creates such expressive melodies, keep reading.įretboard Theory includes over 30 hours of video instruction. The video is organized into two levels that are each broken up into ten chapters. Each chapter focuses on a particular subject you need to know in order to master the styles of your favorite players.īelow is a summary of the first ten chapters. You move all over the fretboard in Fretboard Theory. You need to be familiar with certain notes in order to follow along. But, you don’t need to memorize all the notes on the neck or anything crazy like that. In Chapter 1, I show you which notes you need to know and how to easily remember them. The pentatonic scale is one of the most widely used scales. It’s used for playing melodies, riffs, solos, and basslines. Think “Purple Haze” by Jimi Hendrix and “Breakdown” by Tom Petty just to name a few examples. ![]() In Chapter 2, I show you how to use the pentatonic scale across the whole fretboard and in all keys. You get to know its two different tonalities, major and minor, as well as the version known as the “blues scale.” I provide lists of songs that feature prominent pentatonic riffs and solos so you can connect what you learn to something familiar. I go over the rules of application so you can get busy improvising over songs and jam tracks. Have you ever watched a guitarist play chords all over the fretboard using shapes you don’t recognize and wondered how he knows where to go and what to play? In Chapter 3, I show you the five basic chord forms that naturally occur on guitar on how these forms get used in different ways all around the neck. You use the system to play arpeggios, chord inversions, and various chord voicings.
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