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Triads immediately take you out of those stale old cowboy chords. They open up the fretboard and give you loads of different ways to approach your rhythm playing.

Not only that, but once you can see the chord tones all over the neck they become target notes for your soloing.

Let's explore the major triad!

There is one interval that needs to be mastered more than any other when studying guitar arpeggios…namely the third. In this sneak peek from ‘Arpeggios: Building Blocks’, I’ll show you how best to visualize thirds on the fretboard.

The minor pentatonic scale tends to be the first scale you ever learn on guitar, even before the major scale, and for good reason. It’s a great scale to quickly get into soloing and improvising, especially in styles like rock or blues.

In this lesson, we’ll be exploring these five different minor pentatonic guitar scale patterns.

The major scale is perhaps the most important scale you can learn. First and foremost, the major scale is the basis of thousands of the most memorable melodies and songs you’ve ever heard, making it one of the most easily recognizable sequences of notes in music. From a music theory standpoint, the major scale is like the measuring ruler of music.

Once you have your guitar octave shapes learned, the next stage is being able to link them all up the entire fretboard. This is huge for your fretboard knowledge and serves as a great introduction to the CAGED system

Guitar octave shapes are essential to give you more confidence when navigating the guitar.

In this lesson we’ll go through all the guitar octave shapes you’ll ever need.

The guitar fretboard can seem very overwhelming, but the key to understanding its logic comes from something we tend to learn very early - how to tune the guitar.

Once you understand the musical alphabet on the guitar fretboard, the next stage in your guitar theory journey is to plug all the gaps by learning how to name the notes that fall between the musical alphabet. You'll learn about sharp notes and flat notes and how they appear on the guitar fretboard.

To better understand guitar theory on the fretboard you need to memorize the two units of measurement for distances between notes - the whole step (tone) and half step (semitone). In this lesson, we'll be learning exactly what they are and where they occur in the musical alphabet.

The essential first step into guitar music theory is understanding that the different sounds that you play are notes, and these notes are named by the musical alphabet. Learn exactly what the musical alphabet is and how it's mapped out on the guitar fretboard