Jan 21, 2023 | Bass Guitar, Music Theory
Flowers Bass Guitar The Song I hadn’t heard of the song “Flowers” before checking out the bass guitar part for it. It’s quite new, so that is no surprise. But, yeah, I liked it. Starting with it by playing the bass line no doubt helps my...
Jan 6, 2023 | Music Theory
Intervals and Steps Intervals What makes intervals and steps so important in music? Well, basically, they are the fundamental building blocks. I like to think of them as letters. When you put them together in the right order they spell out a scale, much like a word....
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 | 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 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...
