▸Table of ContentsScale 1: D DorianScale 2: D Melodic MinorScale 3: A Harmonic MinorScale 4: A Melodic Minor #4Scale 5: G Dominant Diminished (Messiaen Mode 2)Scale 6: Bb Jazz MajorScale …
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Browse Category The C Major Scale page 1: overview, modes, theory page 2: CAGED page 3: 3NPS The Am Pentatonic Scale Allan Holdsworth’s 10 Most Usable Scales Without Allan Holdsworth …
C Major Scale on Guitar
Browse Category Page 1: Fretboard Overview – Note Names Fretboard Overview – Intervals Modes of the C Major Scale The C Ionian Mode The D Dorian Mode The E Phrygian …
History & Origins of the Standard Tuning for Guitar
From ancient Chitara, to six-course Renaissance Lute which seems to have been tuned E-A-D-F#-B-E quite often, to Vihuela tuned similarly, to the five-string Guitarra settling on A-D-G-B-E, The Standard Tuning …
List of Most Common Chord Types
▸Table of Contents Strict Triads Non-Strict Triads Strict Seventh Chords Non-Strict Seventh ChordsWithin the Fretboard Knowledge domain, we loosely define chords as “three or more pitched sounds played simultaneously”.In Western music …
The 12 Most Usable Jazz Chords for Comping
These are the 12 most usable four-note seventh chord chord-shapes for guitar in the standard tuning, for jazz related styles of playing.Master these before moving on four-note chords and the …
The A Minor Pentatonic Scale
▸Table of Contents All Notes – Am Pentatonic All Functions – Am Pentatonic Common Scales containing the Am Pentatonic Scale Level up: The A Minor Blues Scale ▸FingeringsCAGED: 5 Pentatonic …
The All Fourths Tuning a.k.a. the P4 Tuning
The All Fourths Tuning, also known as the P4 Tuning, is a regular tuning which has a measure of popularity among electric guitar players in particular.The P4 ‘All Fourths’ Tuning …
The C Major Scale – 3NPS
3 Notes Per String Fingering PatternsPattern 1Pattern 2Pattern 3Pattern 4Pattern 5Pattern 6Pattern 7Pattern 1a3NPS Fingerings – 3 Notes Per StringPattern 1Pattern 2Pattern 3Pattern 4Pattern 5Pattern 6Pattern 7Pattern 1aLearn more about …
The C Major Scale – CAGED
The 5 CAGED Fretboard PositionsArea 1Area 2Area 3Area 4Area 5Area 1a – OctaveThe CAGED ‘System’ is the way the guitar fretboard (in the Standard Tuning only!) can be divided into …
The Ten Most Usable Guitar Chords
These are the 10 chord shapes every guitar player should know and learn in the early stages of their musical journey.Beginners who are ready to play chords should start with …
The Ubiquitous CAGED System
Table of Contents What It Is What It Isn’t The CAGED System in Common Scales What It IsWhat It Isn’t The CAGED system is in fact not a ‘system’ at …
Without Allan Holdworth this website wouldn’t exist
Around 1997 I was studying jazz guitar at the Conservatory of Amsterdam which basically means I was practising jazz standards, playing an archtop guitar and listening to Pat Metheny, John …