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4 Theory Concepts Every Guitarist Should Know
Each person has his or her favorite style of music, weather conditions it is classical, pop, folk music or any other genre. Enjoyed by children adults similar musical universally connects people. It is not too late to pick up the skill.
Music theory can be one of the most difficult parts for guitar players who are ready to move up a level with their playing. There’s too much to know and understand, with no real way to figure out what’s essential in a vast sea of information. More so, it’s difficult to recognize how to apply this information in a real life playing situation.
In these lessons taken from Jeff Schertz’s true Fire course, Street Theory for Guitarists, Jeff will sort through the essential and non-essential, leaving you with easy to apply music theory knowledge that will help you on your path to becoming a better guitar player. The concepts that he’ll go over will make it easier to play along at the jam, learn songs, and get the gig.
There’s more to be had in the full course on True Fire, where Jeff takes you through four sections of music theory that every guitarist should know: Fundamentals, Chords, Scales, and other theory concepts.
Roman Numerals & Progressions: Demonstration
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Sometimes thinking of chords in a progression as numbers instead of letter names can help you not only find your way around progressions, but also communicate much more clearly to other musicians. This method of using Roman numerals in order to convey progressions is universal and essential to “jammers” everywhere!
Inversions: All Strings
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We can take the inversion concept and apply it to each set of three strings. Moving these up the neck gives you a ton of cool ways to create guitar parts. Inversions can be just what the doctor ordered when you have two guitar players playing a simple song. One plays the simple chords, and the other creates interest with various inversion shapes on various strings.
Modes: Parallel Scales Approach
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When we talk about parallel modes, we’re basically talking about simply playing them all from the same root note. So, this would be a way to look at all the modes starting from the G note. This is absolutely the best way to hear the differences between them and be able to understand the uniqueness of each mode.
Soloing in CAGED: Demonstration
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Once you know both the chords and the corresponding major pentatonic scales you can create some cool musical parts. For starters, you can really nail the “Hendrix” kind of feel of going back and forth between a chord and then a little lick. Soloing within the CAGED system is another good way to stay melodic. O
