Aug 1, 2022 | Guitar, Music Theory, Worksheets
Broken Triads in Position 4 Learning this next exercise for broken triads in position 4 of the CAGED system for guitar will help you learn the fretboard. Getting to know the guitar fretboard is one of the most important skills you can develop if you want to be able to...
Jul 20, 2022 | Desconstructions, Drums
Drums – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – By The Beatles – Drummer – Ringo Star Here is the main beat of the “Intro” and “Verse’s” of the song, using the low tom to drive the song. This is the fill used...
Jul 20, 2022 | Guitar, Music Theory, Worksheets
Broken Triads – Position 3 Broken Triads in Position 3 means we’ll be looking at the G-shape for this run. This exercise runs through the circle of 5ths instead of chromatic climbing like the previous exercises. Moving around the fretboard like this can...
Jul 1, 2022 | Guitar, Music Theory, Worksheets
Broken Triads for guitar position 2! This is a very technical exercise and gets your fingers moving through the scale in a different way. Practicing this expands your understanding of the fretboard and ability to visualize the locations of notes. It’s also great...
Jun 19, 2022 | Desconstructions, Drums
From the Desk of John (Head Transcriber) “Being basically a keyboard song, I made up some of the guitar parts when there was no part (based on keyboards). And for the keyboards – I concentrated on the main parts.” Drums Intro Break Down For the most part its a...
Jun 18, 2022 | Desconstructions, Drums
From the Desk of John (Head Transcriber) “Being basically a keyboard/drum sample song, I took a few liberties with the parts. The guitar covers some of the more guitar sounding parts, and the keyboards cover as many key parts as I could put in there without growing a...
Jun 13, 2022 | Guitar, Music Theory
Broken Triads on guitar… what are they? Broken triads is the idea of playing a triad (a 3-note chord) as individual notes instead of together. This is also commonly called an arpeggio. In this exercise, though, we will only play the 3 notes that make up the...
Jun 3, 2022 | Drums, Worksheets
“The Apartment Song” by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers. Click here to download the...
Apr 2, 2022 | General, Music Theory
Minor Chords, what are they? If you’ve already looked through this article about major chords, understanding minor chords will be a breeze. At least, understanding how they are constructed. There can be a lot of complexity to how chords of any tonality (major, minor,...
Mar 28, 2022 | Music Theory
How to build major chords All basic, major triad* chords are built using a root note plus the major 3rd and perfect 5th above that note. Major 3rd = 4 half steps above root Perfect 5th = 7 half steps above root A half step is simply a measurement that means the next...
