📖 The Scoop
This book follows on from the hugely popular No Bull Music Theory for Guitarists book, teaching you more essential guitar theory concepts so that you can expand your music theory knowledge and get an even greater understanding of the guitar fretboard. After studying with this book you’ll have the rock solid music theory foundation that all guitarists need to become better improvisers, play better guitar solos, become an improved singer-songwriter or composer, and become a more accomplished all round musician.
Is this book for you?
This method book (with accompanying audio practice tracks and backing tracks) is perfect for any player from beginner to advanced who wants to better understand crucial guitar theory topics like intervals, triad inversions, seventh chords, the circle of fifths, suspended (‘sus’) and ‘add9’ chords, modes and much more. And with the same no-nonsense and straight talking approach seen in book 1 in this series, plus practical examples so you can play and hear the theory in action...you can easily understand many music theory topics which confuse players for years in just a few hours - with no music reading skills required.
In Music Theory for Guitarists Volume 2 you’ll discover:
- How to easily and painlessly learn all the notes on your guitar fretboard for instant recall, and in such a way that you’ll never forget them! This simple lesson alone can have a massive impact on your guitar playing skills
- How to make bland, basic chord progressions sound amazing by using simple ‘stand in’ or substitute chords. You’ll learn how to use ‘sus’ and ‘add9’ chords to embellish your songs and chord sequences, for much slicker textures and sounds. With examples and chord shapes!
- Compound intervals. Learn about 9th, 11ths, 13ths, #11ths etc. and take the mystery out of those confusing interval, scale and chord names
- ‘Seventh chords’: what they are and what to do with them. Understand the theory behind major7th, dominant7th, minor 7th and minor7th(b5) chords and learn how and when to use them for richer, more colourful sounds in your music
- The Circle of Fifths: learn to use this amazing visual tool for musicians! Discover how to use the circle of fifths to better understand chord progressions and songs, key signatures, I-IV-V and blues progressions, plus how to use it as an amazing practice tool for more rapid progress and fretboard theory understanding
- The foundation of modes and mode theory. The topic of modes seems to confuse most guitar players out there! Learn the foundational theory behind modes - what modes are, mode names, plus the basics of how and when to use modes. With Music Theory for Guitarists Vol.2, you can hopefully avoid all the confusion most players experience when it comes to the potentially baffling topic of modes!
Plus lessons on key signatures, the Roman numeral ‘system’ for understanding chord progressions, seventh chord ‘families’ and much more
Music Theory for Guitarists, Volume 2 also comes with downloadable audio content including demonstratio
Genre: Music / General (fancy, right?)
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