In the lesson you state at the end that if you want to make a solo sound more "blues like" you can use the minor version of the major pent scale with...
No - songs aren't 'supposed' to be limited to just 3 major chords. It's true that most songs in major keys contain 3 'naturally occuring' major chords...
Yes the tonal centre is the tonic of the key. It's the place of greatest stability, and tonal music exploits that quality by moving away from that not...
I agree with NoteBoat. You can't reinforce the Dorian feel of your melody if you harmonise it with a chord progression that doesn't support the Doria...
The "key" (as in tonal center of the chord progression) MAY be G, or it might be D. Right now there's no way for any of us to tell - including the co...
That progression may look like a I IV V in the key of G but according to the OP, it doesn't sound like one. He feels that D is the tonal centre (and h...
having that little tid bit (chart) does help. placing my finger over the fret but not pressing the string , just barely making contact? Making contac...
Harmonics are a special kind of note that you get if you place your fretting finger exactly above certain frets (the 12th fret being one of them) wit...
That tab puts it all in context and makes everything a lot clearer, EMT. A couple of things to be aware of as you found some parts that don't make sen...
I also agree that sus chords shouldn't contain a 3rd - it defeats the purpose. If a so-called '6 sus 2' chord were to contain a 3rd in addition to its...
Yep, absolutely. It's retardations that resolve downward. I assume that's a typo and you meant to say retardations resolve UPWARDS In fact, I'd s...
From what you've got so far, I'd also go for G as the more likely key. But the fact that there's no V7 - I progression present in either C or G gives ...
I'm in the three-notes-for-a-chord camp too (and so's the Harvard Dictionary). But I think we're really talking about two different things here...A d...
I'll quibble that it is a chord. In classical theory a chord is a combination of 3 or more notes. That guitarists call intervals chords doesn't make i...
A - C# is a major 3rd but it wouldn't be an A5 chord. Where did you get the number 5 from?In fact it would be an incomplete chord, or simply, an inte...