Video Lesson: 5 Ways to Build Your Rock Rhythm Guitar Rudiments
Developing your sense of time and rhythmic vocabulary won’t just make you a better rhythm player, it will make you a better lead player, and a better musician overall.
In The Way Music Works, Gretchen Menn teaches 12 lessons on the basics of music theory.
Video Lesson: Learning the Notes on the Acoustic Guitar Fretboard and the Staff
Guitarist Gretchen Menn offers beginner's tips on how to familiarize yourself with the guitar fretboard and learn the fundamentals of music theory.
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How to Use Modes and Pentatonic Scales on Guitar
Here are some tips on understanding the power of modes and pentatonic scales (major and minor), and how to fit them into your own playing on acoustic guitar.
5 Tips for Playing Arpeggios | Acoustic Guitar Lesson
Start with chord shapes you already know. Learn a handful of fingerstyle picking patterns and then begin incorporating arpeggios into your vocabulary.
Start Enriching Your Music Now with Seventh Chords
The basic concept for seventh chords is simple enough: any number following a chord indicates the note that is to be included in the basic triad to form a more colorful harmony.
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Introducing ‘The Way Music Works’ by Gretchen Menn
"Many guitar players have an aversion to anything that smacks of music theory," Gretchen Menn says, "My aim is to show you that having a basic understanding of the fundamentals will benefit you as a guitarist, a musician, and a creative soul."
The Way Music Works | Acoustic Guitar Champions
A step-by-step guide to using the fundamentals of music to unlock both the fretboard and your creativity.
Video Lesson: How to Build Pentatonic Scales Up and Down the Fretboard
The pentatonic scale is everywhere. Its characteristic sound is useful in a wide variety of genres.