This article is the first of several articles aimed to help you understand chord construction better. First, we’ll start with power chords. Before you read on, I recommend that you […]

In music, an interval is a way to describe the distance between two notes. In my post about whole- and half-steps, we learned about the two fundamental intervals in music: […]

Today we’re going to learn about the chromatic scale. The chromatic scale is important because it provides us with all of the notes we need to create other scales and […]

Chords sound so nice. They add harmony to a song and provide context for the melody. In popular music, the chord progression — a repeated series of chords — can […]

This week we’ll cover the concept of whole-steps and half-steps. They are the build blocks of everything from chords to scales. They’re important, so let’s dig in. Let’s first review […]

Remember the first time you opened a box of crayons when you were little? Most likely, you had a box of eight colors. Not bad. At first, eight was all […]

With all of this talk about scales and chords recently, I thought I would take a step back and explain where all of it comes from. The fundamental element to […]

Pentatonic scales are everywhere in popular American music. Come to think of it, they’re everywhere in a lot of eastern music too. The popularity of the pentatonic scale can mostly […]

Some of you beginning guitarists may have the misconception that guitar playing is all about chords. The reality is that knowing and playing chords is only half of it. The […]