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...
