Guitar Theory

Learning guitar theory will free up your playing, and take you and your playing to previously unimagined heights. Learn the basics with our online beginner guitar lessons, and in the meanwhile, start learning the theoretical aspects of playing the guitar as well. If you want to improvise solos, make up your own licks, write your own songs, you'll need to understand guitar theory.

Arpeggios

An arpeggio is very similar, but also very different from a chord. When you strum a chord, you are making the individual notes of the chord ring together at the same time. When you play an arpeggio, you are still using the notes of a chord, just not all at once, since you pick the individual notes of the chord separately. 

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Barre Chords

Barre chords (often written as bar chords) are very versatile guitar chords, which are movable to any fret on the fretboard in a given shape. Barre (bar) actually refers to the positioning of the index finger of your fretting hand, which must be laid across and holding down several strings at once.

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Chord Progressions

Chord progressions are a series of guitar chords played in a set sequence on a scale, usually consisting of 2,3 or 4 chords. Read on to learn some popular chord progressions, which you will learn to play in any key you want.

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Chord Theory and Construction

Through learning guitar chords theory, you will be able to understand how chords on the guitar are constructed.

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Guitar Anatomy

Guitar anatomy isn’t exactly a college subject, but it’s still important to know the parts of the guitar. Knowing how something works is important if you want to master it, so lets have a look at the anatomy of the guitar.

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Guitar Chords

Learn the basic beginner chords, find out how these chords are constructed, learn chord progressions. You'll see its pretty easy once you know the basics.

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Guitar Notes

The basis of playing the guitar is knowing the notes on the fretboard. You’ll have to learn guitar notes if you ever want to play anything on your own, be it chord strumming or lead guitar.

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Guitar Scales

If you understand scales, you'll understand the foundation of playing music on the guitar. You'll be able to make up your own riffs, and create amazing solos just like professional guitarists.

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How to Read Guitar Tabs

Guitar tabs (which is short for tablature) is a type of musical notation for stringed instruments that show you which fret to play on each string, as opposed to standard staff notation, which shows you the pitch of a note. Beginner guitarists have a much easier time learning from tablature, but in the long run, it’s a good idea to learn the standard musical notation as well.

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Learn Guitar Chords

Learning guitar chords (sometimes misspelled as guitar cord) is one of the first steps a beginner guitarist will take in learning to play the guitar. Learning chords will already enable you to play real music and songs, which is really the reason you picked up the guitar in the first place.

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Major Scale

The major scale is your starting point should be the first scale you learn, because it is THE basis of chords and other types of scales, the major scale is the basis of Western music. If you learn the major scale, you will be able to understand how chords are constructed (it’s not that complicated :-) ), know why your favorite songs sound the way they do, play great arpeggios and be able to write your own songs. And all this from one scale, not bad!

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Minor Scale

The minor scale should be the second scale you learn. It is formed from the 6th degree of the major scale, so if you took the time to really learn the major scale across the fretboard, you are half way in knowing the minor scale already.

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Pentatonic Scale

A pentatonic scale is like any other scale (notes separated by intervals), but it contains just 5 tones, hence the Greek pentatonic. Most scales in western music contain 7 notes (e.g. the major scale, minor scale, etc). 

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Power Chords

First of all, a shocker. A power chord is not a chord! It is, in fact, a diad, which is 2 notes played together. Guitar power chords are very versatile, since the shape can be moved all over the fretboard, as with bar chords.

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Guitar Modes

Guitar modes can be viewed as scales on their own, since the notes in each mode are separated by a given interval pattern, however, they would not exist on their own, since they are part of a bigger scale. So its fair to say that all modes are scales, but NOT all scales are modes :-)

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