How do you recognise triad chords and inversions on guitar?
If you want to learn to recognise triad chords on guitar, you’ll need to use a combination of standard triad chord ear training and specific guitar ear training exercises. Triad chord ear training There are four main types of triad chord: major, minor, augmented...How should you approach guitar ear training?
Ear training is a hot topic for guitar players, because so many want to play guitar by ear and ear training is the key to learning to play by ear. There are two ways to answer the question of what ear training a guitarist should do. Core listening skills for...
Ear Training Site Profile: JazzGuitar.be
Continuing in our series of ear training site profiles… Jazzguitar.be is a particularly multifaceted resource for any jazz musician, but it’s a goldmine for guitarists at a beginning to intermediate stage of jazz training. Featuring a dense list of lessons—from...
Listen to Les, Part 1: The Gibson "Les Paul"
Ask a guitarist to name five famous Les Paul players and you’ll probably get Slash, Jimmy Page, Pete Townsend and Joe Perry… and maybe Ace Frehley, or the late great Gary Moore. There’s plenty of players to choose from: a quick look at the Gibson website reveals...
Triads and Chord Inversions On The Guitar
Connect your chord ear training with your guitar playing by practising major, minor, diminished and augmented triad chords and their inversions on guitar.
Guitar Interval Practice: Learn to Recognize Intervals
Intervals are the building blocks of the vital musical sense of relative pitch. Find out how you can do interval ear training as part of your guitar practice.
Sounds Unusual? Learn Some 'Strange' Guitar Techniques
How often have you heard a guitar and wondered “How do they make that noise?!” These are the top techniques used to produce those strange and wonderful sounds.
Jazz Guitar Giveaways – What makes that sound jazz?
An appreciation of common musical genres in important for any musician, and guitarists in particular are often called on to provide accompaniment in a specific style at the drop of a hat. Today we’re going to look at jazz guitar ‘giveaways’: musical...
Introduction to Guitar Tone
Don’t just look at a guitar and assume you know the sound it will produce. Learn about the various factors that affect guitar tone and what to listen for.
