Thursday, June 6, 2013

Fourth Lesson: Pentathonic and Blue minor scales.

Hi again!
In this lesson we are going to learn something very easy about the blues.
The blues is based on the pentathonic minor scale, that it's:

In A:

 In A, you can do this scale in different positions, like this:
The other notes is the same but starting at the correct fret ;)

The blues scale is the same that the pentathonic minor scale, but adding a flat on the 5th, doing it dicreased.
You can do all the blues scales doing the same that you do with the pentathonic, but adding de dicreased 5th, and starting at the fret with the note that you want.






Thanks for watching this! See you soon! :D

Third lesson: 7th Chords

Now, I think it's time to learn about the 7th chords.
A 7th (7th Major) chord is a Major chord with the bass note, the 3rd, the 5th, and not the 8ve, we put the 7th.

A 7th chord is for example, on A7, the notes are A C E G (not like a major chord that it's A C E A)

This type of chord is very used, and for example if you want to play blues, you've to know those chords.

Here is an image of the chords that we've seen since now: Major, minor and 7th chords.

 

Thank you for watching this and keep learning!! :D





Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Second Lesson: CAPO

Hi everybody!
In this lesson I'm explaining how to do a CAPO chord, but don't worry, it's easier that you think.

The capo consists on put your index finger across all the neck of the guitar, touching all the strings on this fret, like this: 


 

The CAPO chord is used all long the guitar and in every fret, for example, if you want to do C, you can do this chord like this two positions:
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Like you can do a CAPO chord on the 3rd fret of the 5th string doing a C chord, you can do all chords by CAPO.
Now, here is an image of the CAPO example chords, enjoy!

This is for a minor chord with the base on the 6th string. If you want to do a major chord on the 6th fret, you have to put your finger on the 3rd string, between the 2 other fingers and the capo.


This is for a minor chord with the base on the 5th string. If you want to do a major chord on the 5th fret, you have to put your finger on the 2nd string, at the same fret that the other 2 fingers.

In the CAPO chords with base on 5th and 6th strings, the base note of the chord will be on the fret that it's the note on the 5th and 6th string.

Thank you very much for seeing this and please coment! See you soon :D