Music theoryExample course · read-only
Music theory for the guitar you already play
Mission
Understand the songs I already play on guitar, so they stop feeling like memorised shapes.
- success looks like
- Explain why the chords of a song belong to the same key
- Work out the chords of a key from its major scale
- constraints
- 10 minutes per sitting
- Learns on guitar only; no piano at home
- Reads chord charts, not staff notation
- out of scope
- Reading staff notation
- Jazz harmony
- Writing songs
Lessons
- Lesson 1 · finished 1 Septquiz 3/3Notes and the musical alphabet→ Name all twelve notes and find them on one string
- Lesson 2 · finished 3 Septquiz 2/3Tones and semitones→ Measure the distance between any two notes in frets
- Lesson 3 · startedUp nextThe major scale→ Build a major scale from any note on one string