Guitar Tricks Blog: Music Theory
Posted March 27, 2019
Am Chord Guitar - Explained!
The Am chord on guitar, or also known as the A minor, is a triad composed from the A major scale. The most common ways to play it is in the open position, at the first fret, or as a barre chord in the fifth position. Since it’s a minor chord, it is often used in slow or mellow songs thanks to its dark sounding tone.
Posted March 6, 2019
6 Jazz Chords Super Easy to Learn
Jazz chords are chord voicings that are commonly used in jazz music. Technically there are no chords called jazz chords, but instead, jazz musicians generally like to use extended chords like 7th major and minor chords, dominant and diminished 7th chords, minor 7th flat 5, and 9th chords.
Posted January 18, 2019
Pentatonic Scale Essentials Guitar Lesson
The pentatonic scale is one of the most popular guitar scales due to its simplicity and versatility. It’s called the pentatonic scale because there are only five notes in the scale, as opposed to the usual 7 notes in most others. “Penta” means five and “tonic” means notes. Read on to find out why this scale is so popular!
Posted April 26, 2017
Chord Melody Style
Chord melody style is a way of playing a song as a completely self-contained solo arrangement. It's essentially a classical guitar approach.
Posted June 25, 2015
Understanding Basic Chord Composition Music Theory: A Simple Introduction
Of all the instruments (outside of drums and percussion) guitar might be the one that tempts us the most to fudge on our music theory. Because we don’t really need it to play. In fact, there’s a lot you can accomplish on a guitar that requires little or no music theory...
