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- Author: Desi Serna
- Full Title:: Guitar Theory for Dummies With Online Practice
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
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- URL:: https://readwise.io/reader/document_raw_content/142866227
- Read date:: 2025-09-01
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Guitar players navigate the fretboard in a few ways. First, they know the location of some key notes. For example, they often know the notes along the 6th and 5th strings well and use them to track chord shapes and scale patterns. Second, they identify notes on other strings by tracing them to the 6th and 5th strings with (View Highlight)
simple octave shapes (View Highlight)
The simple box-shape patterns that the pentatonic scale makes on the fretboard are ideal for getting started with riffing and jamming. Plus, many of the most recognizable guitar riffs of all time are based in pentatonic patterns. (View Highlight)
The more melodic a line is, the more likely it is to use a seven-tone major scale (View Highlight)
Modes are all the different types of scales that the major scale makes when you change the starting point and pitch center in the scale. (View Highlight)
properly identifying a song’s mode is critical to understanding its composition and construction (View Highlight)
You work with triads by stacking the major scale in 3rds in Chapter 3. (View Highlight)
You can play literally thousands of different chord shapes on the fretboard, but most of them can be traced back to just five common open forms. These forms are C, A, G, E, and D. (View Highlight)
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(roots (the primary pitch from which a chord gets its letter name) to common chords. (View Highlight)
»»The 5th fret is A; it matches the 5th string open and is used for relative tuning. »»The 12th fret is E, an octave higher than the same string open. (It’s specially marked by two inlays on most guitars.) (View Highlight)
The 5th fret is D; it matches the 4th string open and is used for relative tuning. (View Highlight)
On a guitar, a half step is one fret. (View Highlight)
E-F and B-C are half steps, while F-G-A-B and D-C-E are whole steps. (View Highlight)