An overview of time structures in popular music.

This tutorial explains how scales and chords are related to each other. You will also learn musical examples that show how to combine scales and chords.

This tutorial explains the concept (theory) of the C Major Scale and how to apply it (practice) to the guitar. This tutorial is primarily written for beginners. But even experienced players might benefit from this quick, concise review of what constitues a scale.

What are intervals? This tutorial covers the basic concept of an interval as a musical distance and how to apply it on the guitar.

In this tutorial series we will discuss pentatonic scales, patterns & shapes. We will use them to build pentatonic "frameworks" (or "box shapes") as a visual aid to see familiar patterns on the fretboard. And then use them as a springboard to understanding scale degrees and why scales sound the way they do.

Each note of a major scale has a chord that accompanies it. In this lesson we will learn how to create those chords. Part-1 is contained in the video above while part-2 is contained in the video below. Just a note: The hi-res video contained in lesson-1 is very large.

Hello everyone,here's a few chord patterns that I use when playing metal.The first pattern is your typical powerchord. A powerchord is constructed of three notes. A root, 5th and octave. Let's take the E5 powerchord for example. E is the root (open 6th string), B is the 5th (2nd frt 5th string) and the octave is again E played on the 2nd fret fourth string. I've put some examples of powerchords fo...

A common question in guitar teaching seems to be regarding sus chords. What does it mean? The term �sus� is short for suspended and basically means that the chord is in �suspense� awaiting a resolution. (In more basic terms it means your ears expect to hear a �finishing� chord after a sus chord). The theory behind them is that by replacing the 3rd interval with either a 2nd or a 4...

This is quite an indepth look at using diminished and Half-Tone/Whole-Tone scales over the chords to a 12 bar progression. It is possible (not to mention very cool) to use these scales in various places in the progression. Use of these scales can get complex due to their ambiguous nature. For example because the diminished scale is made up of minor 3rd intervals it ends being an identical sc...

This is one of the absolute essentials if you want to know the guitar properly. Knowing how to solo around chords (instead of just scales) makes it easier on you and it also makes it sound more interesting. Playing 4 notes at a time, 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th, and then moving on to the next chord. We're going to play the arppegios to these chords without moving position, in other words, in 2nd po...