I’ve often said that guitar is a minor instrument; however the other day someone called me on that and asked me to explain it. You see, that’s why the minor guitar scales sound best (in my humble opinion) on the guitar. Not that other scales don’t sound good, but the minor ones sound great, and…
Have you ever wondered how to go about changing keys in a song? Possibly in the last verse, or in a bridge, or something like that? If you’ve ever tried changing keys in a song before, it’s possible you’ve run into the question of which chords to use while doing that. The trick that I…
If you’ve been on my email newsletter for any amount of time, or if you’ve been hanging around Guitar Tips Weekly very much, you’ve probably heard me talking about guitar theory at some point or other. So what IS guitar theory, and how in the world is it going to help us become better guitar…
This guitar lesson will show you how you can create your own guitar chords, using nothing more than a scale and open chords you already know. We’re using the key of G, so the open chords are G, C, D and Em, Am and Bm. The relative minor scale is E minor, so we’ll use…
Today’s guitar lesson has some cool guitar riffs and ideas for you, but this time I also get into the theory behind the riffs – just a bit . Theory is incredibly useful for a) finding cool guitar riffs, and b) figuring out what the heck is going on musically when you hear something cool….
