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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

  1. Lesson 1 · finished 1 Septquiz 3/3Notes and the musical alphabet→ Name all twelve notes and find them on one string
  2. Lesson 2 · finished 3 Septquiz 2/3Tones and semitones→ Measure the distance between any two notes in frets
  3. Lesson 3 · startedUp nextThe major scale→ Build a major scale from any note on one string