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INTRODUCTION
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As you can see from the fretboard image above there are
different colors, numbers and positions for each note. The
frets are also numbered as well as the string numbers are
indicated on the 11th fret and the square colored boxes are
the notes of the open strings. The colors indicate a
particular note and everywhere you see the color this is the
same note this also goes for the numbers. There is also a map
of the modes the diatonic progression tones and the 9ths
11ths and 13ths notes.
CHAPTER 1 SCALES
Lets start with some basic musical theory there are only
12 notes in all of western music thats it 12 notes and most
every song you have ever heard has no more than 7 notes in it
usually less. This is an important concept to understand so
look at the fretboard above and see if you can find 7
different notes you should have found C,D,E,F,G,A and B these
are what are known as natural notes with no sharps or flats
and are the most pleasing rounded sounds to most peoples
ears.
Now I started with the letter C and there is a reason for
this I have just taught you the C major scale. I am going to
base a lot of information on this basic concept of the C
major scale so be sure you have it memorized so here it is
again to help you visualize where I want you to start.
Now you may be wondering why this happens how can I get
both a minor and a major scale by using the same notes well
the answer lies in how the intervals fall between the notes
in relation to the starting or root note. I am not going to
get too much into it now but the intervals are the white
spaces between the notes that you dont play for example the
interval between the 5th and 7th fret in the diagram above is
a whole step interval between the 7th and 8th fret is a half-
step interval. So what makes a scale major, minor or whatever
it is is the way the intervals are laid out starting from the
first note and this goes for all scales.
Chapter 2 chords
The A minor chord works exactly the same way only now we
will be starting from an A root note and use the A minor
scale to find our notes. We are going to count up 3 notes
from the A (dont forget to count the A note as 1) note using
the scale and that takes us to the C note so C is our 3rd and
then counting from A to E is five notes so E is the 5th so now
we have the notes of the A minor chord A C and E and just
practice the same way you did with finding the major chords.
CHORD PROGRESSIONS
Before you can play songs you need to learn about chord
progressions. You can look at a chord progression as a map
through a song lets take a simple song structure verse,
chorus, verse, chorus. A verse is generally where you develop
your ideas(words) and the chorus is generally where you
reenforce these ideas with repetition.
Now each of these passages have a movement of chords this
is the progression for example the verse may have a chord
progression of C1 to F4 to G5 this would be called a 1 4 5 or
C F G progression this is a simple but important point be
sure you understand it before you move on.
Ok now you might be asking what chords can I play with
this progression are they major or minor well there is a
general rule for this and it is called the diatonic
progression
You can see where I have these tones marked above the
notes the M is major and the m is minor and the Dim is
diminished.
7th CHORDS
CONCLUSION