How to Play Triads on Strings 4, 5, and 6
Last but not least in this series of triads, “How to Play Triads on Strings 4, 5, and 6”. This string set will have its root note on the fourth string, followed by the fifth on the 5th string and…
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How to Play Triads on Strings 3, 4, and 5
How to Play Major Scale Triads on Strings 3, 4, and 5 How to play major scale triads on strings 3, 4, and 5, is a continuation of adding another string to the previous patterns learned in my other post.…
How to Play Triads on Strings 2, 3, and 4
Continuing on from playing triads on the first three strings, to how to play triads on strings 2, 3, and 4. Before moving on though, just a few oversights. Seeing the Bigger Picture If you start to see complete chords…
How to Play Triads on the First Three Strings
Triads In this lesson, I will show you how to play triads on the first three strings. To play a triad means to play different notes. We will get these three notes from the G major scale. How to Build…
How to Play Triad Shapes in Pattern One Major Scale
What are Triads? This lesson is about how to play triad shapes in pattern one of the major scale. Click here to learn pattern one of the major scale. Triads are groups of 3 different notes. You can find the…
How to Play Rock Chords on the Guitar
Breaking Out of Open String Chords Learn how to play rock chords on the guitar in this intro lesson. A guitarist’s first chords begin with learning fretted chords with open strings. These open string chords involve changing your fingering for…
How to Play the Blues in the Key of A
Play the Blues in A The blues is a really good place to start for a guitarist to begin the process of expressing themselves. You can play laid back, aggressive, or both leaving you plenty of room to play with…
How to Play G Diminished Scale on Guitar
What is the Diminished Scale? The diminished scale is an 8-tone scale instead of 7 like the major scale, linked here to my blog pentatonic-scale-plus-two-equals-major-scale. One of the notes will have to be repeated, for example, 1, 2, b3, 4,…
The Modes of the Major Scale
The major scale that you play has 7 different notes and that is something to know when you start to learn, The Modes of the Major Scale. The Ionian Mode Also known as the major scale, the Ionian mode is…
Notes On the Sixth String
Notes on the sixth string may be the next step you want to learn about after learning the basics. First I would suggest learning the open string names, E, A, D, G, B, E. What Next? Next learn the basic…