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Guitar Rut Busters: Essential Theory
Building a Solid Foundation
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BONUS: Get your Scale Book
Introduction (0:11)
The Guitar Pitch Axes (2:37)
Defining 'Pitch' and 'Notes' (1:00)
The Language of Music - Learning its Alphabet (2:32)
Insight Into The Tuning of the Guitar Strings (1:21)
Mapping out the Musical Alphabet Across The Fretboard (2:32)
Defining The Distances 1 - The Whole Step (or Tone) (1:28)
Defining The Distances 2 - The Half Step (or Semitone) (0:57)
EXERCISE - Visualizing the Musical Alphabet all over the fretboard (1:45)
QUIZ - Test your new knowledge
Expanding upon the Essentials
Introduction (0:12)
Filling The Gaps 1 - Sharp Notes (2:01)
Filling The Gaps 2 - Flat Notes (1:43)
Aren't They The Same Note? Defining Enharmonics (1:04)
How All The Notes Fit Together - The Note Clock (1:01)
Playing The Chromatic Scale (3:42)
QUIZ - Test your new knowledge
Fretboard Mastery
Introduction (0:08)
Overlapping Strings and Moving Notes (3:05)
Finding Notes Using Octave Shapes 1 (2:23)
Finding Notes Using Octave Shapes 2 (1:34)
Linking the Octave Shapes For Fretboard Domination (2:47)
EXERCISE - Visualizing the Octave Shapes (0:13)
Horizontal Note Finding for Fretboard Memorization (2:00)
The ULTIMATE Exercise For Fretboard Memorization (2:40)
The creation of melody from the Major Scale
Introduction (0:18)
But what is a Scale? (3:06)
How to play the Major Scale (1:25)
Defining Diatonic Scales (0:47)
Identifying the Notes by their Scale Degrees (2:52)
EXERCISE - Playing and Creating with the Major Scale (4:03)
Demystifying Key Signatures
Introduction (0:28)
The Problem with G Major (3:11)
Applying the Same Rules to D Major (1:34)
When Can We Expect Flat Notes? (1:38)
EXERCISE: Key Signature Challenge (1:15)
How the Circle of Fifths is Useful (5:49)
Building Chords and Defining Keys
Introduction (0:41)
The Major Third (1:19)
The Minor Third (2:42)
Harmonizing The Major Scale in Thirds (2:31)
Harmonizing on Different String Pairs (2:16)
EXERCISE: Learning your Thirds (1:13)
Harmonizing The Major Scale in Fifths (2:33)
Creating Chords - Major Triad (1:53)
Creating Chords - Minor Triad (0:47)
Chords in the Key of D Major (3:05)
What are the Chords in Other Keys? (2:50)
QUIZ: Do you know your Chords?
Creating Chord Progressions
Introduction (0:10)
Your First Progression - I-IV (1:55)
Adding the V Chord (and the Perfect Cadence) (2:08)
Adding the Minor Chords (1:41)
The Infamous Four-Chord Song Progression (1:41)
Rooting The Chords Anywhere on the Fretboard (1:36)
The I Chord (E-Shape Major Barre) (2:37)
The ii and iii Chords (E-Shape Minor Barre) (1:30)
The IV and V Chords (A-Shape Major Barre) (2:53)
The vi Chord (A-Shape Minor Barre) (0:55)
Playing ANY Progression in ANY Key (2:09)
Capo Transposition - New Ways to Play the Same Chords (5:32)
Exploring in the Dark - The Minor Scale
Introduction (0:41)
How to play the Minor Scale (2:48)
Everything is Relative (1:21)
The Derivative Approach to Minor Scales (4:02)
But what about the Scale Degrees? (2:32)
The Parallel Approach to Minor Scales (2:11)
EXERCISE: Playing and Creating with the Minor Scale (1:13)
What Chords are found in a Minor Key? (2:34)
V Chord in a Minor Key? (1:04)
Flat symbols with Roman Numerals?! (1:23)
Common Minor Key Progressions
More Circle of Fifths Awesomeness (4:17)
The Power of Fives - Pentatonic Scales
Introduction (0:39)
How to Play the Major Pentatonic Scale (4:09)
Learning the Major Pentatonic (0:44)
How to Play the Minor Pentatonic Scale (2:33)
Learning the Minor Pentatonic (0:21)
The Vertical Pentatonic Scale (3:09)
Getting More from the Pentatonic Box Pt. 1 (2:30)
Getting More from the Pentatonic Box Pt. 2 (1:51)
An Introduction to Arpeggios
Introduction (1:33)
Playing a Major Arpeggio (5:20)
Playing a Minor Arpeggio (2:53)
Crossing Strings by Shifting the 5th (Major) (2:24)
Crossing Strings by Shifting the 5th (Minor) (1:09)
Shifting the 3rd (Major) (1:11)
Shifting the 3rd (Minor) (0:48)
EXERCISE: Mastering the Arpeggio Patterns (2:29)
Bring all your Knowledge Together
Introduction (0:16)
How to Effectively Identify the Key of a Chord Progression (4:28)
Soloing Strategies (8:20)
Closing Words and Thanks (0:57)
Learning the Major Pentatonic
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