Arpeggiated Chord Progressions using G6 Em7 A7sus2 Cmaj7 Dsus2
Here are some exercises to work on your picking technique, and for learning how to arpeggiate chords. feel free to repeat the chord progressions for as long as you like, or just play through once. The Chords Before we get started, let’s just run through all the...
Accents
Accents are where you play notes or chords a bit louder. It enables the dynamics for a section to stay the same, but highlight certain notes as being a bit louder. They are used by all styles of music, and are a good way to add dynamic rhythm. For example, to make a...
Ostinato
An ostinato is a repetating pattern, phrase or motif within a piece of music. For example, a short repeating guitar riff is an ostinato. More info on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostinato
Understanding Notes and Rests in Music Notation – Reference Sheet
Get Free PDF Download → This is a very useful sheet that will help students of most instruments that read music. The sheet includes images or rests and notes, and their modern or classic names, and also note values and rest values. This can be useful as a reference...
Moveable Barre Chord Shapes Grade 3 Level
Get Free PDF Download → This printable PDF is a nice looking printout of the 4 main barre chord shapes you need to learn for Grade 3 guitar. Each shape is moveable, so with these 4 shapes, you are able to play any major or minor barre chord on the guitar. For example,...
3 Popular Beginners Chords That Are Often In Songs Together – G, Dsus4, Cadd9
The chords Cadd9, Dsus4 and G, all fit together nicely in terms of changing chords easily, and have therefore become a popular choice for songwriters to use together in songs. This is obviously only a bonus though, as more importantly they also sound great together,...
Subdivisions, Time Signatures and Cakes
Subdivisions is a general term that we usually use to describe various notes that are shorter than one beat, such as 8th notes, triplets, 16th notes, and all the rest. 1 beat crotchets (quarter notes) can be divided into halves to make quavers (8th notes). These 8th...
Root Notes
Questions about learning root notes and why comes up a lot by guitarists. In this article, I will attempt to answer some questions you might have about root notes, and hopefully encourage some people enough to spend time to learn them. Learning root notes might sound...
What is a Tonic Chord?
A tonic chord is the same chord name as the key of the music. For example: If the song is in E major, the tonic chord has to be E major. You can also have other chords in a song with the key of E major, chords like A major and B major, but these would not be the tonic...
The role of a guitarist in theatre and musical performance
Becoming a guitarist in a musical theatre orchestra is no easy feat. The guitar is one of the most popular instruments that people learn and there are huge numbers of very proficient guitarists in the UK, many of which are vying for very few guitarist vacancies....