Sunday, 24 January 2010
New Guitar Videos
I have added some new guitar videos to my site on you tube. Still new to this but I am finding the process slightly easier now. I have added The Beales Let It Be and Green Days Good Riddance to my Guitar Video section. Take a look as I have also got the Guitar Tabs for these songs on my site.
Monday, 18 January 2010
Collection of Guitar Chords and Scales
Have finally started uploading guitar chords and scales to my website. I have added a chord chart that will be my starting point o help with song keys from chords to help with modes and scale that can be played over the song in question.
I have also uploaded a good few chords now. Only the basic popular ones for now but this will grow over time.
To begin writing songs based on chord progressions, you need to understand that each key has a series of chords that belong to it and are referred to as a key's 'diatonic chords'. What follows is an explanation of how to find out which chords belong to which key.
A major scale is derived from a progression of whole or half steps on the chromatic scale. The major scale goes like this
Whole - Whole - Half - Whole - Whole - Whole - Half
The C Major Chord Progression
The best scale to start with is probably the C Maj scale (as it does not have any sharps or flats)
It would go like this:
Cmaj - Dmin - Emin - Fmaj - Gmaj - Amin - B diminished
Above are chords in the key of C major. We arrived at these chords by beginning with a C major scale, and using the the major progression we saw above Whole - Whole - Half - Whole - Whole - Whole - Half .
Here is what you should try to bring away from the above:
In every major key, there are seven different chords. The order of these chords are:
major, minor, minor, major, major, minor, and diminished.
The order is the same for whichever major key you are in. the space between each of these chords is as follows:
Between chords 1 and 2: tone or whole, 2 and 3: tone or whole, 3 and 4: semitone or half, 4 and 5: tone or whole, 5 and 6: tone or whole, 6 and 7: tone or whole, 7 and 1: semitone or half
and we are now back to where we started.
I have also uploaded a good few chords now. Only the basic popular ones for now but this will grow over time.
To begin writing songs based on chord progressions, you need to understand that each key has a series of chords that belong to it and are referred to as a key's 'diatonic chords'. What follows is an explanation of how to find out which chords belong to which key.
A major scale is derived from a progression of whole or half steps on the chromatic scale. The major scale goes like this
Whole - Whole - Half - Whole - Whole - Whole - Half
The C Major Chord Progression
The best scale to start with is probably the C Maj scale (as it does not have any sharps or flats)
It would go like this:
Cmaj - Dmin - Emin - Fmaj - Gmaj - Amin - B diminished
Above are chords in the key of C major. We arrived at these chords by beginning with a C major scale, and using the the major progression we saw above Whole - Whole - Half - Whole - Whole - Whole - Half .
Here is what you should try to bring away from the above:
In every major key, there are seven different chords. The order of these chords are:
major, minor, minor, major, major, minor, and diminished.
The order is the same for whichever major key you are in. the space between each of these chords is as follows:
Between chords 1 and 2: tone or whole, 2 and 3: tone or whole, 3 and 4: semitone or half, 4 and 5: tone or whole, 5 and 6: tone or whole, 6 and 7: tone or whole, 7 and 1: semitone or half
and we are now back to where we started.
Friday, 8 January 2010
Chord Chart
Been busy trying to think of a good idea for my site. One thing recently I learned was how to determine the key of a song and what modes or scales would be good to play or improvise over a song.
I have added a chord section to my site and will eventually add as many chords as I can think of but first I thought it would be good to show how songs are put together in a key and what chords are used. Also if you have the chords or music for a song how with the use of a chord chart you can determine the key of the song.
With this you are able to find out what scales or mode you can use for improvising, riffs, runs or soloing.
It is becoming a big job but worth it. If you take a look please contact me if you see any errors or things you think I haven't explained properly at Guitar Chords Page
I have added a chord section to my site and will eventually add as many chords as I can think of but first I thought it would be good to show how songs are put together in a key and what chords are used. Also if you have the chords or music for a song how with the use of a chord chart you can determine the key of the song.
With this you are able to find out what scales or mode you can use for improvising, riffs, runs or soloing.
It is becoming a big job but worth it. If you take a look please contact me if you see any errors or things you think I haven't explained properly at Guitar Chords Page
Saturday, 2 January 2010
New Design For My Site
Well its a new year and thought I would start using some of the feedback and info I have learned over the past few months to update my web site. Nearly finished with the new design and have tidied up my html code.
Hope I haven't lost to many visitors as I have not updated the content much, but I was given some feedback on guitar forum sites and I've added achord section to the site.
Happy New Year.
Hope I haven't lost to many visitors as I have not updated the content much, but I was given some feedback on guitar forum sites and I've added achord section to the site.
Happy New Year.
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