String Combinations for Guitar: Exploring the Possibilities When it comes to guitar playing, understanding string combinations for guitar can be an eye-opening way to think about chords, scales, and intervals. With six strings on the guitar, there are a total of 63 possible string combinations. This number comes from counting each individual string, every possible […]
Music Theory
What is the Most Common Guitar Tuning?
What is the Most Common Guitar Tuning? Standard tuning, used on classical, acoustic, and electric guitars, is often criticized as being arbitrary or randomly chosen at some point in history. However, upon closer examination, it turns out to be the best option for balancing versatility in both chord formations and scale navigation across the fretboard. […]
Scale Chord Calculator
Scale Chord Calculator Scale Chord Calculator Root Note: C MajorC# MajorD MajorEb MajorE MajorF MajorF# MajorG MajorAb MajorA MajorBb MajorB Major Calculate Chords Exploring the Scale Chord Calculator: Understanding Diatonic, Secondary Dominants, and Borrowed Chords In the world of music theory, scales and chords form the backbone of composition and improvisation. For musicians—whether you’re a […]
Key of C Major
The key of C major, also called the C major scale, is a commonly used key for guitar players, piano players and other instruments. It is easy to teach the notes of C major on the piano because all of the white keys make up the key of C. Diatonic and Chromatic are words used to […]
Circle of 5ths
The circle of 5ths, sometimes referred to as the circle of 4ths and 5ths, is a chart that reveals many patterns of melody and harmony in music. Many students will brush it aside as another boring theory assignment but the Circle of 5ths is actually the key to easy memorization of so many music concepts. […]
Nashville Number System
The Nashville Number System is a simple way of naming chord functions as numbers rather than their formal letter name. In the equal temperament tuning system their are 15 key signatures. They all differ in name but the chord function is always the same. For instance a guitar player might be teaching his band a […]
Music Lessons are only for kids, right?
In a world of blossoming individualism, it can sometimes be difficult to see past the negative connotation related to taking music lessons. A common misconception is that lessons are for kids, and only for kids. This, of course, is false. As you get older, your brain increases its ability to comprehend more difficult subject matter, […]