What You'll Learn
Session 1:
- Brief summary of Part 1
- The big question: How do Guitarists know what to play over chords and songs, so that it sounds right?
- Building a scale
- Finding 3rds within a scale
- How a scale will generate different chords
- Using Roman Numerals to quickly identify chords
- The “grab bag” of chords, and why they sound good together in songs
- What a Key is in music
Session 2:
- Putting together a good sounding chord progression for a song
- Which order of chords works best in a progression
- The shortcut for finding chords in any key
- How to transpose a song from one key to another (and why it’s super practical)
- Finding the chords in Minor keys
- Putting together chord progressions in Minor keys
- Movable & memorizable Major, Minor, and Diminished triads on the first set of strings
Session 3:
- Movable & memorizable Major, Minor, and Diminished triads on the second set of strings
- Best way to practice the triad shapes at first
- Why practicing triads is so beneficial to your neck knowledge
- Using the diatonic concept as a tool for practicing triad shapes all across the neck
- Beyond memorization: jamming with triads
- Using the triad shapes in a lead guitar style
- Selecting a jam track to solo over
- Combining triads for soloing