In this article I explore the basics of chord families (also known as harmonic functions) and their use to create forward motion in music. The Tonic, Subdominant and Dominant families are discussed and some examples provided in G major for the guitar. …
Category: Music Theory
This post covers an approach to deriving drop 2 chord voicings for guitar by taking a starting chord - such a s a major 7 - and changing one interval at a time to create fingerings for dominant 7, minor 7 and minor 7b5. …
Please take a look at the previous post Diatonic 11th Arpeggios for a discussion about how these arpeggio shapes came about. Basically they are based on an approach created by Rusty Cooley in his …
Guitar maestro, Rusty Cooley, in his shred-tastic DVD set Arpeggio Madness introduces a couple of ideas that I have found very useful; in particular his shapes for diatonic 11th and …
This post contains some mnemonics to help get started reading music (staff notation) for the guitar by helping you to learn the note names. …
This article covers the basics of Pentatonic Superimposition for guitar, a simple technique for adding colour to your improvisation over IIm7 chords. …