Circle Of Fifths
This is the fourth installment of my formal music theory course!
Other lessons in this series:
- Homework
- Practice 1 - Open Position Scales
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July Homework Updates
Hi Everyone!
It's Wednesday which now means its livestream homework assignment day! From now on, I'll have a homework assignment every Wednesday. If you can't catch it, I'll link it here within an hour or two afterward so you can watch it later!
I'll have updates about what lessons are coming up and I'll assign some new homework related to last weeks chord progression homework. Then it'll be a Q&A session with whoever is watching about whatever questions you might have.
I hope you can join! Catch up on last weeks homework assignment so you're ready for the next layer!
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The First Weekly Homework Assignment
Hi Everyone!
This is big news. From now on I'm going to have a weekly livestream every Wednesday. I'll hand out some homework at the beginning of every month, and every week I'll check in on the progress, talk about more ways to explore the homework, and possibly feature a few choice examples of completed assignments.
I want to stress the importance of not just absorbing and watching these lessons, but really spending time getting to know things. The videos I've been making for this community are designed for you to really spend time practicing and understanding, so I thought a central weekly video to tie things together ought to be a fun and useful idea.
Check in each Wednesday this month for more different ways to make and manipulate chord progressions.
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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:
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Memorizing The Fingerboard
In this lesson I talk about how to speed up the "counting up from open" method of figuring out what note you're playing. We talk about BEAD at the 7th fret and some ways to use octave shapes to explore the fingerboard a little more.
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“Can’t Help Falling In Love” Pt. II (Melody Analysis)
We already broke down the chord progression in the previous lesson. Now it's time to analyze how the melody harmonizes with the chords. This type of breakdown is helpful for both songwriters and lead guitar players who want to understand how soloing and other lead lines work over chords. At the end I discuss briefly how to practice writing your own melodies using the simple rules:
1. Start your melody on a note in the current chord
2. If moving through the scale, continue through the scale until you reach a chord tone
3. If skipping notes, only skip to another chord tone
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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.
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Pentatonic vs Full Scale vs Chromatic
In this lesson I wanted to talk about how different kinds of scales sound when you're playing a solo and how you can mix and match as long as you're focused on notes in whatever chord is going by. The idea here is that chord tones are so important, you can almost do anything you want as long as you're following the chords.
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I - IV Logic Pro Jam Track Creation
While preparing for the next CAGED Soloing series I realized my current I-IV jam track wasn't ideal, so I made a new one. This isn't a lesson, but it is a look at how I put a track together with guitar, bass, drums, and keys. In the future I might livestream lessons like this so I can interact while I'm working.
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“Can’t Help Falling In Love”
In this lesson, I'm breaking down the chord progression of this song into their appropriate roman numerals - talking about what key(s) the song is in and how everything is organized. If you've watched all of the Music Theory Monday series, you should understand whats going on. If not, I'll have livestreams to help clarify your questions and my formal music theory course will make a lot more sense of it.
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A Minor Play-Along
Join me for a practice session where we work through a set of scales in order of the CAGED system in A Minor.
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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.
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