Tagged As: Easy Guitar Chord For Beginner
Question:
I've been playing for over a a year without ever taking a formal lesson. I basically just teach myself everything I've learned up until now. I can play a bunch of songs, but haven't the slightest clue regarding theory. Since I've been playing for a little while, I can pick up tabs fairly easy, and know a fair amount of chord shapes. However, I cannot even begin to improvise or know how to form advanced chords down the neck. What can I do next, where can I go to acutally take this year of experience and turn it into knowledge. I am considering a few lessons to get everything straight in my head. What do you all suggest? Any help?
Answer:
I discovered, by way of a high school music theory class, that the quick and easy key to learning theory for me was the keyboard. It's the perfect user interface. Theory is just the mathmatics of music and the keyboard displays the building blocks in a way that I could intuitively grasp in a way I doubt I could have on guitar. Once I got my mind around an idea, I went home and translated it to guitar. Looking at the keyboard and being able to see, *clearly and simply*, the note relationships in the construction of intervals and scales and modes and chords and later in harmony and counterpoint (where staff paper became -- surprise, surprise -- another great intuitive tool) opened it all up for me.
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