Music Theory For Guitar | 07

Diminished & Augmented Triads

Music Theory for Guitar is back. In this 7th installment of lessons, I'm going to help you get acquainted with Diminished and Augmented triads. In this overview lesson, I'll talk a little bit about HOW to make these chords and how they fit on the guitar. In the next set of homework lessons, I'll hone in on the main concepts to help the ideas get stuck in your head, and then we'll end with a nice play-along practice track.

Other lessons in this series:

- Homework 1

- Homework 2

- Practice (coming soon)

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Music Theory For Guitar | Bonus

Major Triads Bonus

I filmed a whole series of Youtube videos earlier this year and realized it was going to take me about 100 years of editing before I finally got through them. This was when I realized I would need to find a better way to do my camera guitar system. I managed to edit this first episode the series before I decided to work on a better guitar camera system. The ending is pretty abrupt because I was planning to move on to the next video, but the next video never happened.

Anyway, I thought this would help reinforce some of the concepts in the Major Triads lessons AND be a nice reminder that I've got more videos like this coming soon. I hope you enjoy it.

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Music Theory for Guitar | 06

Minor Triads

Continuing with the Music Theory for Guitar series, we're talking about Minor Triads in this video - how they differ from Major Triads and how to make them and think about them.

Other lessons in this series:

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Music Theory For Guitar | 05

Major Triads

Continuing with the Music Theory for Guitar series, the next set of lessons are about Triads! Starting with Major Triads, I talk about how to make them, the language to use when discussing and thinking about them (to keep things from getting too confusing), and how we typically use voicings and inversions on guitar. This gives you the info you need to work on the homework and the practice track. This also prepares you for the next lesson about minor triads!

Other lessons in this series:

- Homework

- Practice 1

- Practice 2

Music Theory For Guitar | 04

Circle Of Fifths

This is the fourth installment of my formal music theory course!

Other lessons in this series:

- Circle of Fifths Lesson

- Homework

- Practice 1 - Open Position Scales

- Practice 2 - Movable Scales

Music Theory For Guitar | 03

Intervals

This is the third installment of my formal music theory course. We get into what intervals are and how they are named. Check out the included PDF for an overview. Practice this theory for yourself and play along with some tracks in the "Interval Practice 1" "Interval Practice 2” videos.

Other lessons in this series:

- Practice 1

- Practice 2

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Music Theory For Guitar | 02

Minor Scales

This is the second installment of my Music Theory Course. This lesson covers how minor scales are made and how the major and minor scale are related - crucial fundamental concepts in music theory. From here we'll keep building on fundamental music theory concepts.

Music Theory for Guitar | 01

Major Scales

An introduction to the major scale and its origin as the basis for more complex music theory topics. This is the first installment of my formal Music Theory course. We discuss Major Scales in a bit more detail and prepare to dig into minor scales and intervals.