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Guitar Theory Learn Music Theory on the Fretboard
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Learn about guitar theory. Applying music theory to the guitar fretboard. Scales, chords, chord progressions, modes and more. Taught by Desi Serna author of Fretboard Theory.
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Brown Eyed Girl Intro Tab
The guitar introduction to "Brown Eyed Girl" by Van Morrison features major scale patterns played in thirds. The first phrase is played over a G major chord and uses the G major scale starting with G at the 12th fret of string 3. The second phrase is...
Confused About Guitar Modes
Why am I having a hard time understanding modes and modal guitar scales?Guitar modes is a very misunderstood topic. The reason is because it's a music concept that stems from others. If you don't know the others, then you're not going to get it. If y...
Roxanne CAGED Chords and Guitar Tabs
"Roxanne" by The Police is a great example of using partial major and minor shapes based on the CAGED guitar chord system. This song also includes suspended 4 chords. See the Roxanne chords and guitar tabs below.Opening Verse Chord ProgressionGm ("Em...
Guitar 7sus4 Chords
"Hard Day's Night" by The Beatles and "Is She Really Going Out with Him?" by Joe Jackson are currently the only songs I know of where the guitar uses this fingering to play a 7sus4 chord. In "Hard Day's Night" it's a G7sus4 and the very first chord y...
The Difference Between Guitar Thirds and Sixths
Playing a major scale in thirds is often confused with sixths on guitar. This is because thirds are often inverted on the fretboard with the third in the lower, or bass, position and the root on top. When this occurs the interval appears to be a sixt...
The Choicest Bounties of Heaven
"We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forg...


Nice site Desi and very informative for the guitarist....Greg
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