In this guide you’ll discover how to learn guitar scales, specifically the Major, Minor and Minor Pentatonic.
You’ll have an understanding of how the scales are made and how to play them as a basic 6th string shape in any key.
First, let’s take a look at the possible notes we can have, this is the Chromatic Scale, because it includes all of them:
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For the majority of songs you’ll play (I’d say all of them unless you’re a lead guitarist,) you’ll need to learn how to play guitar chords. I’m going to guide you through the most common guitar chords you’ll come across, which is a selection of the Open Major, Minor, Seventh, and Barre chords.
If you’ve never picked up a guitar before, and have no idea where to start, check out my guide on Easy guitar chords for beginners. Then come back here and learn all the major, minor, 7ths, and Barre chords, equip yourself with all the tools you’ll need to play those guitar songs.
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This article explains a few techniques to help you on your way to learning perfect pitch, you may also hear it being called “how to learn absolute pitch” too, which is fine, they’re the same thing.
I’m going to go through some introductory material on perfect pitch, then look at how you can develop perfect pitch for yourself, and finally I’ll give you some more “extra for experts” resources, like perfect pitch software.
As a fellow guitarist, I’m sure you can appreciate the value of obtaining perfect pitch. Think of how much easier your musical endeavors are going to be when you can go from music-idea to music-notation in the blink of an eye. It’s the one thing I hated… when I had a rhythm or little riff in my head and not being able to write it down. I would try to play it on the guitar as soon as I got home and record it to my computer, but it never sounded the same.
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