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#263295 - 23/09/09 12:56 PM Re: Wolfe's Beginners guide to chord theory [Re: Richard - Richards Guitars]
SkullCrusher SkullCrusher Professional Forumite! Registered: 22/02/09 Posts: 113 Loc: Hell	I love the caged system it makes perfect sense and I would be lost without it. It's much better than learning hundreds of different types of the same chord. Edited by SkullCrusher (23/09/09 04:32 PM)
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#263306 - 23/09/09 03:28 PM Re: Wolfe's Beginners guide to chord theory [Re: SkullCrusher]
Richard - Richards Guitars Richard - Richards Guitars Administrator & Forum Council Member Old Timer Registered: 30/07/01 Posts: 5446 Loc: 5 Tiddington Road, Stratford U...	You may get a litle confused unless you remember its the CAGED system - not cage lol It is incredible how guitarists can play for years and yet have no comprehension of this kind of stuff. guitar theory is incredibly straight forward but sometimes I think guitar books are designed to keep you buying more books rather than actually help you understand it! _________________________ http://www.richardsguitars.co.uk http://www.guitars.co.uk/richards
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#263309 - 23/09/09 04:36 PM Re: Wolfe's Beginners guide to chord theory [Re: Richard - Richards Guitars]
SkullCrusher SkullCrusher Professional Forumite! Registered: 22/02/09 Posts: 113 Loc: Hell	Stupid I, must have forgot to add it. Fixed now!
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#267523 - 16/11/09 01:00 PM Re: Wolfe's Beginners guide to chord theory [Re: DaveBass]
Noise_Maker Noise_Maker Old Timer Registered: 23/10/07 Posts: 1154 Loc: Usually on the Sofa	Just stumbled across this. Cracking reference Wolfe! _________________________ Guitars: Cort Earth Grand, Cort G250 RMS, Kimbara Strat Copy, Vester Strat Copy (Stage Series), Custom Build LP Style (By Steve Benford), 'Podcaster' Custom Build prize! (tele Style), Variax 600 Mac based recording and VOX AC4TV
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#277943 - 04/07/10 10:01 AM Re: Wolfe's Beginners guide to chord theory [Re: DaveBass]
Equilibrium Equilibrium Be Nice (I'm New!) Registered: 19/06/10 Posts: 36	Hay this is really cool, I have been teaching for some time myself but I really like your chord diagrams _________________________ http://www.guitarprogress.co.uk
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#278426 - 17/07/10 09:58 AM Re: Wolfe's Beginners guide to chord theory [Re: DaveBass]
Equilibrium Equilibrium Be Nice (I'm New!) Registered: 19/06/10 Posts: 36	Key Signatures tell us how many sharps or flats are in a key and what notes are to be played as a sharp or flat in a key, to understand Key Signatures we first need to study 'Keys' and 'Scales' The 2 main scales we use are Major and Minor which both contain 8 notes, staring and ending on the same name e.g. C Major stars on a C note and ends on a C note To discover the remaining 6 notes and more importantly how we got all 8 notes making the scale, we need to explore what is known as Intervals. An Interval is the distance between 2 notes, if we look at the full musical scale for guitar know as the Chromatic Scale we get; (example 1) C C# D D# E F F# G G# A A# B C The distance between each note is called a semi-tone or in the USA a (half step) so from C# up to D would be a semi-tone The distance between C# up to D# would be a tone in the USA a (whole step) Basically if you go up by 1 (.i.e. C# to D) its a semi-tone or up 2 (.i.e. C# to D#) its a tone Now this is where it can get tricky - the notes with the sharps(#) are actually the same as a note value as a note with a flat (b) Lets take the same scale but use the flat(b) perspective; (example 2) C Db D Eb E F Gb G Ab A Bb B C Instead of looking at going up see it as going down, if you are on D and go down a semi-tone you come to the C# on the Chromatic Scale in example 1 but a Db on Chromatic Scale in example 2 If you start on F and go down a tone you come to D# on the Chromatic Scale in example 1 but a Eb on the Chromatic Scale in example 2 Which ever way you look as it a sharp will be the same note as a flat .i.e. C# is the same note as a Db (the same sound for both names) This is known as Enharmonic. Notice between the E & F and B & C there are no sharps/flats as the distance is only a semi-tone between these sets of notes _________________________ http://www.guitarprogress.co.uk
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#278613 - 25/07/10 05:19 PM Re: Wolfe's Beginners guide to chord theory [Re: Richard - Richards Guitars]
OldSwanner OldSwanner Professional Forumite! Registered: 31/08/09 Posts: 139 Loc: Warwick, UK	Originally Posted By: Richard - Richards Guitars About 10 years ago I went through stages of patenting a sliding device that taught modes and chords. It was really cool and I wish I had been able to find a publisher for it. Even to this day I have not seen anything like it. Was it anything like this? ..... http://www.psgt.co.uk/desktop%20fretboard.html _________________________ Gibson Blueshawk Fender Blues Junior/Hotrod Deluxe http://www.psgt.co.uk ... Real tuition for serious guitar students in Leamington Spa and Warwick.
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