Sight-Read E, F, F# and G on the First String Some amazing musicians don’t read music, and plenty of people think it’s a waste of time. You don’t need to read music to become a great player, but it’s a skill with big rewards. This is Part 1 of my sight-reading series, and it sticks […]
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Find 1-6-4-5 and 1-6-2-5 Chords Anywhere on the Neck In Episode 5 we played the 1-4-5 progression around the circle of 4ths. Episode 7 of Play ANY Guitar Chord adds one more chord, the 6, to make the classic 1-6-4-5 progression. It was used in a lot of 1950s songs, and while researching this episode […]
Add9, Major 9, Dominant 9 and Minor 9 Chords Episode 4 of Play ANY Guitar Chord adds some spice with 9th chords. The goal is to build any chord by seeing the intervals on the fretboard, instead of memorizing a thousand shapes from a chord chart. I write everything out on the staff starting from […]
Dominant 7th, Major 7th and Minor 7th Chords Explained Episode 3 of Play ANY Guitar Chord is all about 7th chords. What is a dominant 7th, and how is it different from a major 7th? I review triads from the first two episodes, add one more kind of triad, then stack a 7th on top […]
Turn CAGED Major Shapes Into Minor Chords Episode 2 of Play ANY Guitar Chord builds on the major chord shapes from Episode 1. First I explain the difference between a major and a minor triad, then I change each CAGED shape into a minor chord and move those shapes up the neck. What I cover: […]
Use Five Open Shapes to Find Major Chords Anywhere This is Episode 1 of my Play ANY Guitar Chord podcast. Instead of memorizing hundreds of chord shapes, I use the CAGED system: five chord shapes you probably already know (C, A, G, E and D) to find major chords anywhere on the fretboard. The series […]
Classical Guitar String Change and Before-and-After Sound Test When I opened my classical guitar case I found a broken D string, so I decided to change the whole set to D’Addario Pro-Arte EJ45 nylon strings. This video is part string review and part how-to: I play Romanza on the old, cheap Martin strings, change the […]
Upgrading From 14:1 to 18:1 Ball-Bearing Tuners Nylon strings stretch and react to temperature, so getting a classical guitar in tune can take some fiddling. The guitar I pick up most often had inexpensive tuners that were fine but I wanted some that were easier to fine-tune. I replaced them with Guyker 18:1 classical guitar […]
Two Band-in-a-Box Alternatives Compared ChordPulse and JjazzLab are two of the best alternatives to Band-in-a-Box, and they work very differently. ChordPulse’s strength is its simplicity, and JjazzLab’s strength is its complexity. To compare them, I entered the same chord progression into each one and went through the features I actually use. What I cover: The […]
Which Notation Programs Handle MusicXML Import Correctly? This MusicXML import test started with a problem. THIS VIDEO IS OLD AND USES OLD VERSIONS OF SOFTWARE; ALSO FINALE (RIP) IS GONE. But this is still useful to know… First, I recorded a guitar arrangement in Mixcraft. Then I used the Melodyne engine inside Mixcraft to turn […]