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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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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 →

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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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 →

Chord-tones

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Anchoring on the chord tones is like the easy button for lead guitar playing. When playing lead guitar, it becomes so much easier and fluid if you focus on the chord tones. For example, if the chord being played is a C major at the current moment, then simply use the notes C, E, and G as anchor points. You just can’t go wrong when playing these notes. Then, let’s say the chord changes to a G major, just use the G, B, and D notes as anchor points. Once you have located the anchor points, you can wander around to different notes of theRead More →

Learn guitar with Color

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Learn guitar by color, even better than paint by number. Colors make it easy and fun to learn the guitar and remember what you learned. Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Violet – Seven Colors for 7 notes of the scale, – any scale. Today we show how the rainbow color system works with A Dorian and Asus4. Scale Degrees and ColorsRed = Root = 1stOrange = 2ndYellow = 3rd (can be major or minor 3rd)Green = 4thBlue = 5thPurple = 6thViolet = 7th Color makes it so much easier to see the relationship between the notes and the patterns on the fretboard. You canRead More →

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Color coded music learning system. Learn Music with Rainbow Colors. This is the newest version of the genius board, a fun and creative way to learn the guitar fretboard. Part of the Fun with Three Strings 3 Minutes and a Triad series. Today we have the E Major chord of the board. It’s a simple triad containing the notes E, G# and B. E is Red for the Root of the chord, G3 is Yellow – the Major 3rd, and B is Blue the 5th. See below for entire reference for all 7 scale degrees. The system is simple and flexible, it can be usedRead More →