Office Hours: Q&A Hangout

This week's live stream will be on Thursday, November 12th at 7pm. I'm trying to accommodate more people and be open to more topics, so come prepared with questions! If you have questions now, feel free to post them below in the comments and I'll answer in the live stream.

If you can't watch live, you can always watch later. I hope to see some new faces.

Keep in mind you can hit the notification bell on the video right now to get an alert when the stream is starting.

Office Hours: Q&A Hangout

Hi Everyone,

I think I need to mix it up a little bit here. It's been really fun to have the livestream on a consistent day, but I want to be more inclusive and give folks a chance to catch a livestream who might not be available on Wednesday mornings.

On top of that, while the monthly topic is a fun concept, I like having the freedom to engage and explore the kinds of questions and curiosities people might bring to the livestream. From now on, I'm going to be a little looser about the topic and I'm going to try to randomize the date and time of the stream so more people get the opportunity to join.

More CAGED Camera Guitar

This month I surprised everyone with my new camera guitar and I've been talking about general CAGED concepts.

I've been working out a few more bugs with the camera guitar and I think I'll hopefully have a few cool and educational visuals prepared for you.

More CAGED | Major & Minor

Every Wednesday at 11am PST, I go live and talk about the topic of the month. This month I surprised everyone with my new Guitar Camera and I've been talking about CAGED concepts.

Join me while I discuss Major and Minor in the CAGED system. I'm talking chords and scales.

Rhythm Guitar Week Four

For the final week of Fun with Rhythm Guitar! we get into add11 chords and talk a bit about how weird they are to figure out on guitar, how certain voicings don't sounds very good, AND how when you find a nice voicing they can be quite beautiful.

Jam tracks used today

C Major I - vi jam track

B Minor i - VI jam track

Rhythm Guitar, Week Three

In this lesson, I talk about add9 chords and how they are similar to sus2 chords, but not identical. Then we tinker with how to use them in a rhythm guitar context. From there, we combine this add9 thing with concepts from previous weeks and create some tonally interesting rhythm guitar parts. The homework is to come up with your own ABAC pattern over this jam track:

A Major I - ii

Week Two of Fun with Rhythm Guitar

We're taking on another chord concept today: sus4 and sus2 chords!

C Major I - IV Progression: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBNDndQDlAA

F Major I - V Progression: https://youtu.be/X_FKHdiNw2c

You can also download a few audio versions on the Week One post here.

I also mentioned the rubik's cube lessons which I think would be a fantastic set of lessons to review if you want to get more familiar with this material.

Fun With Rhythm Guitar

In this stream I'm talking about the theme for September: Fun with Rhythm Guitar!

We take a basic I - IV chord progression in C and use music theory to play with "chord phrases" using maj6 and maj7 chords.

This is the jam track I used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBNDndQDlAA

You can also download a few audio versions below! Normal, Slow, and Slower

Melody Making, Week 3

Last week was the second week of Melody Making lessons and WOW your submissions on the the SPJ Community have been awesome! Everyone (yes, everyone) should be proud of the melodies they are writing. This week we'll be diving a little deeper into melody making, so if you haven't watch the past two weeks of livestreams, I recommend that you catch up before watching this one.

Post your homework assignments here, on the patreon forum.

Q&A/August Homework

I'll start the stream with exciting updates and talk a little bit about the homework from last month. Then I'll reveal the theme for this month, give a lesson on it, and pass out your homework assignment for the week! Next week we'll build on the skills you practice this week. After the lesson I'll be available for questions! First, questions about the homework, then whatever questions you have!

CAGED Soloing & Mindset

I talk about how the CAGED soloing concepts turn the penta shapes into other shapes and how to think about that, especially when soloing over progressions. I address a few Patron questions about the topic and a few about related topics.