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Guitar modes lesson 1: The Ionian mode is the same as the major scale – here’s what makes it work
Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson, Eric Clapton and Randy Rhoads all used this fundamental guitar mode in their songs. Here, Stuart ...
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Confused about altered and extended guitar chords? Here’s the theory behind them – and how they can supercharge your songwriting
We can extend up to a 13th in this way by progressively adding in the non-chord tones of a scale – in theory, at least. In ...
An essential scale for classic blues and rock solos, the Mixolydian mode is loved by everyone from B.B. King to Guns N' Roses – here's how it works
Used by countless blues guitarists and hard rockers from B.B. King and Guns N' Roses to Josh Smith and Joe Bonamassa, the ...
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Notation - major and minor keys, and chord symbols
The major key and the minor key ... minor scales mean that triads based on these degrees of the scale make different kinds of chords. These chromatic alterations have been the basis of a whole ...
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“These chords are used on everything from The Beatles to Billie Eilish”: How to learn triad theory
We can extract the notes that we require to create our triad based on C major, beginning with the note which we call the 'root'. This is the first note of our scale, the note C. The next note that we ...