Lessons

Learn 5 Part Ear Training lesson from Legend Steve Vai Check part 3 Of Ear Training Lesson here: Ear Training Lesson With Steve Vai – Part 3 – When Your Ears Become Really Good In last column, I showed you a way to hone your pitch and interval recognition skills by singing in harmony with […]

To quickly review, the last four columns have covered the following approaches to ear training: singing the notes of major and minor scales while playing them; playing pairs of notes and identifying the intervallic relationships between the notes; learning to identify different chord qualities (types) solely by hearing them; singing in harmony with single-note riffs […]

Guitar Harmonics Lesson: In This Lesson, we’re gonna talk about harmonics-how to get ’em, where you can find ’em and what you can do with ’em. There are a number of different ways you can make harmonics happen. You can induce ’em with your pick (pinch harmonics), you can tap ’em like Eddie Van Halen […]

Excellent Chording in the Song- Surrounded – Dream Theater I believe if you want to be a good composer, the first thing we should focus on more is Chording. When writing the original song, we often stick with common chording’s that have already been used on millions of songs.  In this “Song with great Chording” […]

In this lesson we will discuss 6 Country guitar licks and there are some amazing bending on those licks. This is basically for Intermediate / Advance level players. These are lesson by Arlen Roth, a great guitar player and was columist for Guitar player magazine during 1982-1992. I put guitar pro tabs and mp3 as […]

A7 Guitar Chord (A Dominant 7) means A major chord with a b7th note from A major scale (or 7th note of minor scale). So the notes are :A, C#, E and G. The emotion of D7 is usually funky / uplifting with slight resolve but sometimes its dark as well (the emotion also depends […]

A dominant 7th chord is a chord that is made up of a root note, a major 3rd, a perfect 5th, and a flatted 7th Note (Or 7th note from minor Scale). It is called a “dominant” chord because it is often used to resolve to the tonic chord in a piece of music. One […]

A chord progression is a sequence of chords played in a piece of music. The most common type of chord progression in Western music is the major chord progressions. This progression is built on the foundation of the major scale. A songwriter/ musician / Guitarist can mix and match chords from other scales and modes […]

An odd time signature is a musical time signature that does not have a simple whole-number ratio between the number of beats in a measure and the note value that represents one beat. Examples of odd time signatures include 5/4, 7/8, or 11/4,These time signatures can create a complex and irregular rhythmic feel, and are […]

“Stand Tall” is a song written and performed by Canadian musician Burton Cummings. The chord progression in this song is very beautiful and few chord used in song that is not very common like C6 or D Augmented and G Augmented Chord. It was released as a single in 1976 and appeared on Cummings’ album […]