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without picking up a song book or looking on the internet.It taught me a lot having
a love for Neil Young when I was younger Later a bit of James got my the desire
back now it's songs like listening to "I can't get used to losing you" or anything that
was a liitle different and captured my lobes,If it's not working for you ask yourself why
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lesson like American pie and take your pick on your ability it won't take long
to find which Youtube hoster you are comfartable with.If you want to go your
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Also check out David Walliman, loads of good free stuff on there but like most free stuff it is not structured, however I have just signed up for his paid course Guitar Infusions, which is structured. Too early to recommend it yet but worth a browse.
I use it with my students and it goes through everything in a logical way (something you won't get unless someone has planned videos in a logical way).
I find the piano much more useful for learning theory as the intervals are easier to visualise without the crossing of strings on the guitar.
My website: Guitar Practice Zone
And Django Reinhardt style band
I completely agree with this.
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His stuff looks good - thanks for the heads up. Yes, I think I need to start right at the very basics, even going over stuff I already know, just to help inbed things more
Jumping in with "I need teh theories!!!" is far too open-ended. If you go to a music teacher and ask them to teach you theory, they'll either give you a whole load of knowledge that you can't immediately apply or find a use for, or they'll show you such a narrow application of it that it's not really helping.
My advice is to break it down into smaller chunks that you can find immediate applications for - or, put another way, break it down into problems that you think theory knowledge would solve. For example:
1 - Learn the major, minor scale and minor pentatonic scales, so you can work out how they apply to the songs you know.
2 - Learn how intervals sound, and how they relate to those scales - helps with working stuff out by ear.
3 - How can you build chords knowing what you now know about intervals?
4 - OK, now use what you know about the major scale, intervals and chords to understand how modes work, and write a song in each mode to get it solidly in your head.
I largely view music theory as putting labels on (or categorising) sounds, or using words (or diagrams) to describe sounds. Once you can categorise things you can then reuse them and adapt them to different situations and also hear when they occur.
You probably do many things intuitively already, but might not have put a label on them in terms of theory.
With that in mind, I would wholeheartedly recommend watching these for perspective, there is plenty of wisdom included:
There is more useful stuff linked to in this index (caveat: the theory lessons may be a bit intense, depending where you are at) Dip in and have a look around, take it easy though, paced learning is far more effective than cramming IMO. And remember, practice makes PERMANENT, so listen well, practice well, and enjoy the ride
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Started out with theory using Waay app , major and minor scales I understand now but the circle of fifths and how many sharps a scale has doesn’t make sense to me. I can’t even work out the key of a song.
I just want to be able to jam along to a backing track or work out lead lines for my own songs.
I fear I know more about guitars than actually playing one.
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