The Awesome Power of the Third
It’s time to learn about the awesome power of the THIRD. No, you don’t NEED to know this. It’s just cool.
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Unlocking Musical Magic: A Primer on the Circle of Fifths
The Circle of Fifths is a chart that shows the relationships between all the musical keys. The Circle of Fifths can be helpful, but it takes a little education for a newcomer to understand it. That’s why I made the Box of Fifths, because sometimes it’s easier for me to reference a simple list of…
The Circle of Fifths Reference Chart: Your Key to Musical Brilliance
You might be interested in this article: Unlocking Musical Magic: A Primer on the Circle of Fifths.
How To Transpose A Song to a New Key
Some guitarists prefer to learn and play songs in their original keys. There’s a lot to recommend that perspective, but what if your vocal range just doesn’t match up with the song in its original key? There’s a solution: transpose it! To transpose a song is to move it from one key to another. We…
Unraveled: The Blueprint of the Major Musical Scale
Unraveled: The Blueprint of the Major Musical Scale! This article discusses the formula to build a major scale and how that formula and the scale itself apply to musical keys and the Circle of Fifths. Do you absolutely need to know this to play guitar? Nope, you don’t. But it’s cool information and you might…
Box of Fifths: A Quick Guide to Musical Keys
An alternative reference to the venerable Circle of Fifths. The top box has the sharps and the lower box has the flats. That’s pretty much it.
The A to G of the Musical Alphabet
Here’s the “A to G of the Musical Alphabet!” I was going to have a “tl;dr” section at the top of this piece, but this article turned out to be pretty to-the-point. It’s just this one idea: the musical alphabet starts at A and goes through G then starts over again, pretty much forever. Although…
The Right Notes: Your Step-by-Step Guide on How to Read Guitar Tablature
Here’s your step-by-step guide on how to read guitar tablature! While there are some real advantages to learning musical notation, tablature is the widely-used alternative for many guitarists. Tablature is basically a map for a given song that shows which frets to play on which strings. In its most basic form guitar tablature is six…
Cracking the Chord Code: Decoding the Magic of 1, 4, 5 Chords in Music
A little useful music theory for jamming guitarists!
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