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This is the easy way to learn to play lead guitar. All you need is 3 notes. All the basic chords, Major chords, minor chords, diminished chords, suspended chords, all have just three notes. And don’t forget about Augmented chords. 3 note chords are also known as triads. Once you locate a simple 3 note chord on the guitar fretboard, ,you can use those notes to anchor your playing. Every other note of that scale are right next door to one of the notes of the triad. So if the rhythm is playing a C chord, locate the notes of C major in the areaRead More →

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Thanks to the Magic Music Decoder aka Circle of Infinite Imagination. We were able to come up with a foundational structure for an awesome song in just minutes. Chord progression, lyrics, melody and some instrumentation. A few more videos will follow as this Song develops. Join us in spontaneous music creation. Grab your instrument and create your own stuff in minutes. Once you learn a few basic principles, songwriters block will be a thing of the past. Song creation will become fun and effortless. Creativity will flow from inside. We wrote out on paper a simple chord progression in the key of E. Writing thingsRead More →

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Super Simple Way to Learn Guitar Using Shapes No complicated music theory, just learn 2 shapes on the guitar, move them around the fretboard and you are jammin! So in this video, I’ll show you how to create a quick little chord jam using shapes, the magical decoder ring and a couple music apps. These shapes use 3 strings on the guitar, that’s why we call in “Fun with 3 Strings” Today we feature the D, G, and B strings. We like to make things as easy as possible, stacking the success deck in our favor. Diagonal Line – The First Shape Above is theRead More →

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Learn to Play EVERY minor Chord, Everywhere on the Guitar Shapes and colors make it easy to learn guitar chords. We start out by showing the Dm chord everyplace on the guitar. There are several unique shapes that create the Dm guitar chord. Check out how many different place you can finger a Dm chord. Shapes make the chord fingering easy to grab. Pick any shape and move it around to get every minor chord Which shape is your favorite for playing the Dm chord? Find your favorite shape and simply move it up 2 frets, now you have an Em chord. This works withRead More →

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How would you like to know every sus4 chord, everywhere on the guitar fretboard? It’s actually pretty easy when you look at the guitar using shapes and colors. Once you learn a shape, simply slide it up and down the neck of the guitar to achieve ANY sus4 chord. Not only that, some of the shapes actually repeat in different dimension of the fretboard. So learn a handful of shapes, move em around and master every sus4 chord. The video shows you how. Sus4 chords sound really cool. Smooth, bright, and airy. They have an immediately noticeable sound to them. They are used in aRead More →

D major in every dimension

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Shapes and colors make it easy to see the patterns on the guitar fretboard. The guitar is full of repeating patterns. Patterns that occur in multiple dimensions. Visualize every major chord, many places on the fretboard. Play it high, play it low, strum it mid-range. Arpeggiate in multi-dimensional style. See, hear and feel every Major chord in every dimension. Here, I show how to play every major chord all over the guitar neck. Vertically and horizontally. You only need 3 strings to play any major chord. Check out how many places you can play the D major on the guitar, when you look at theRead More →

roman Numeral Music

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Ever hear a song you totally loved? The mood, the vibe, the feeling you got in that certain part of a song? Understanding the musical Roman numeral patterns can help you recreate that feeling in your own music. Most non-secret formula ever The Roman numerals I, V, IV, iv have been used in LOTS of big hit songs. They may be used in a different order, or in a variety of different keys, but this Roman numeral combination was used a lot. Kinda like a recipe for hit songs. These Roman numeral chords can be a great starting point for creative launching. They are greatRead More →

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Major 7th chords have almost a “Heavenly” feel to them. They sound really sweet and warm. Maj7 type chords have a certain sound to them. That is really the most important thing to understand. Emaj7 is NOT the same as E7. Close but not the same, just one note difference. They actually sound quite different. Fun with 3 Strings I like to play on 3 strings at a time, it makes it easy on the brain and easy on the fingers. Emaj7 has 4 notes in it. E, G#, B and D#. So I start out with just 3 notes, but them I expand toRead More →

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Spread triads are a great way to play more melodically on the guitar. Spread triads also sound cool as chords and arpeggios when playing accompaniment on guitar. They even make harmony sound more harmonious. (more on that when we get to the post on the harmonic series) What is a spread triad? A spread triad occurs when you take the middle note of a triad and move it up an octave. Check out the video guitar lesson on spread triads. Move the Middle note up When we create a spread triad, we spread out the notes to a higher range. The middle note is movedRead More →

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Learn these 3 shapes for F#m on the guitar fretboard. Master the entire fretboard of the guitar, these minor chord shapes get you well on your way. Each of these minor chord shapes is moveable, that means you can play every mnor chord, all up the fretboard of the guitar. All 3 shapes that you see on the fretboard below create an F#m chord. Thje first one reminds me of a hockey stick. If you can think of your own image for each chord shape it can make it more fun to remember how to play any chord. In the middle of the fretboard weRead More →