by Paul Roth | Apr 14, 2017 | Chords
Last week we talked about one of my favourite things… triad inversions!! Yay. Here are the PDFs again for the shapes: Major Minor Diminished We focused last week mainly on how these are useful and how to apply them. This week I...
by Paul Roth | Apr 6, 2017 | Chords
These are absolutely glorious, and in all honesty have put these to practical use at least as much as the minor pentatonic and major scale patterns. I may even go as far to say I would put them in top 5 most important areas of knowledge of the fretboard for any...
by Paul Roth | Mar 23, 2017 | Chords
Bar chords are one thing that many people get quite stuck on when progressing with the guitar. For most people it presents a bit of a wall to get over, for some, unfortunately, they just think they can’t do it, bar chords aren’t for them and they...
by Paul Roth | Jan 20, 2017 | Chords, Practice, Scales
Short practice sessions Hello all and happy new year! This post is actually inspired by one of my readers Matt so I’m very excited to write this and thank you very much for your input!!! As we all know, it can be very easy for life to take over and...
by Paul Roth | Nov 11, 2016 | Chords, Practice
A short while ago I did a 5 part blog series on the theory of chords, which you can check out here. Part 1 – Triads Part 2 – Add chords, slash chords, diminished and augmented Part 3 – 7th Chords Part 4 – Complex Chords Part 5 –...
by Paul Roth | Oct 7, 2016 | Chords
We’ve learnt all about different types of chords in the last 4 weeks – part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4 so now it’s time to look at the application of those chords in relation to the major scale. From the outset it is important to be clear...
