If you want to play guitar and write songs that you need to know something, at least, on the theory of guitar music. It could break the guitar theory to the study of three elements: chords, scales and arpeggios.

Scales easy for some people, but others find them difficult to learn and difficult to understand. You can actually refer to the ways of the scales of chords. Understanding chords and scales is a matter of exploring relationships between the notes on the fretboard of guitar, but it is not necessary to learn to read music, to find patterns in your neck of the guitar.

When you look at scales will see a symbol like # or b. The # is the symbol of Sharp which indicates when you play a note one fret above where it normally plays. The symbol b is called a floor that is when the note is played one fret lower. A fret of the guitar is called a half step as opposed to a full step or round. In the musical scale there is only a half step between B and C notes and the notes E and F. The notes that do not have a sharp or flat symbol called “natural”.

The complete set of notes in the octave are, in alphabetical order, AA # BCC # DD # EFF # GG #. So these notes are played on the C scale are CC # DD # EFF # GG # AA # B The notes of the guitar begins with the sixth string open sounds the note E, then go up the dishes, FGABC finishing the first octave on the fourth string open D. The octaves continue for twenty frets most electric guitars and nineteen frets for acoustic guitars that do not have a cut body.

Chords containing three or more notes. These notes form part of a scale that has the same name as the chord. The E major chord, for example, has three notes of the scale of E major. Not all grades are equal. The most important notes in a chord are the third and seventh. They tell us whether the chord is major, minor or dominant.

In order to play chords on a particulate is called a progression. Most of the chord progressions in popular music is based on the notes of the first, fourth and fifth of a scale. The twelve bar blues progression is one of the most popular chord progressions. Here’s one way it works in the key of C: is using the first note – C, F, fourth and fifth, G. You play four bars with the chord of C, two F using, over the next two bars C play again and the next two are G and F, ending with two bars of the chord C. The most obvious example of this process is implemented instrumental piece called Guitar Boogie.

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