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We
are teaching “Music Theory for Guitar:
Video Lessons for Beginners.”
Some things are just easier when you can learn them from a live teacher. We are offering a “live teacher” video
format, where you can stop, rewind and re-play as needed!
We
made this eBook with 65 minutes of video so that it can show-and-tell you about
music theory for guitar playing.
It has text, pictures, animations and video instruction, presented in a
sequential learning format.
Who are you?
Do
you want to play a new song but the chords seem too complicated? Wondering what Cm maj7, Csus, Cdim, C9
mean? Wanting to move more
comfortably between major and minor scales and chords? Wishing you knew more about moveable
chords? Or that you could add the
7 or 9 to chords you already know?
Ready to learn more of the terminology like Flat 7 or Major 7, Perfect
Fifth, Major or Minor Third?
Wishing you knew the root, third and fifth notes in the chords you
play? Ready to improve your visual
recognition of common intervals on the guitar fretboard (the Major Third,
Perfect Fifth, the octave)?
With
10 chapters of lessons and 13 videos, we present "Music Theory for
Guitar: Video Lessons for
Beginners." Hopefully we can teach you just
enough music theory to help you figure out those next (more difficult) songs,
to visualize notes and intervals on the fretboard, to be able to read chord
names and to construct/deconstruct those chords on the fretboard. By using video as the primary teaching
mode, we’re giving you a "live teacher” with a conversational tone to make
your learning process more comfortable and - perhaps - fun!
We
hope that you will soon feel more confident reading and locating new chords on
the 12 frets of your guitar.
ABOUT
US:
Kent
Cole is a seasoned guitar player.
His wife, Diana, is a novice. Diana's role is to try to keep Kent's
lessons in "Music Theory for Guitar:
Video Lessons for Beginners" simple, sequential, and
understandable. Together they take
a "just enough" approach by presenting just enough music theory to
help guitar players continue to move into new territory.
Here's
a brief summary of each chapter...
Chapter
2: Guitar Basics: 6 Strings, 12
Notes, and the Octave
Learn
basics about notes in the Western 12-tone scale, sharps and flats, up and down
the fretboard, the location of the natural notes on the fretboard, and the
octave.
Chapter
3: The Major Scale
This
chapter introduces the major scale's interval pattern: W, W, H, W, W, W, H
(whole-whole-half-whole-whole-whole-half).
Chapter
4: Roman Numerals
In
this section you will learn a convenient shorthand for describing the 7 notes
in any scale using the numbers I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII. The other 5 notes have their own unique
relative Roman numeral names, as
we will show you.
Chapter
5: The Natural Minor Scale
Switching
it up! Now that you know how to
find the notes in the major scale and their Roman numeral notations, we will
practice the natural minor scale using W, H, W, W, H, W, W
(whole-half-whole-whole-half-whole-whole).
Chapter
6: Basic Terms: New and Review
Major,
minor, roots, keys, Roman numerals and more! We offer you working definitions of terms that you'll need
to know to get your guitar music theory off the ground.
Chapter
7: Chords: Major and Minor
We
start with a few basic major chord shapes on the guitar fretboard. We’ll show you the I (or root), the III
(Major Third) and the V (Perfect Fifth).
Then you will see how to flatten the III (Major Third) to the iii (Minor
Third) to form the minor chord.
Chapter
8: Chord Syntax: The 4-Columns
Using
a 4-column system, we hope to give you confidence that you can decode a written
chord name into the expanded components that it is asking for
Chapter
9: The Terrain of the 6-string
Guitar
We
thought it would be useful for you to see how some of the music theory we've
covered can be applied directly to your visual understanding of the guitar
fretboard. This chapter is divided
into 2 sections:
Part
1: Visual Intervals
Part
2: Moveable Chords
Chapter
10: Chords with Added Notes
Putting
it all together! After a quick
review of basic terms and ideas, we present some examples of various chords (G,
C, A, D, Cm) and offer you a visual reference for finding the “nearby notes” --
those that help to create chords that are more complex and melodic.
First: A Quick Review
Part
1: Looking at chords of G, C, A and D; practice finding the Major 7, the Flat 7
and the 9
Part
2: More variations: Cm
maj 7, Cm7, Cm6, Cm b5 7; also C sus4, C dim, C aug
Chapter
11: Scale Tone Chords
Have
you ever wondered what is meant when a musician says something like “key of C,
I-IV-V?” This chapter shows you
the formal structure of scale tone chords. You can know the I-IV-V of a song and begin to transpose
songs to other keys.
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