
Demystifies the circle of fifths as a practical roadmap through keys, highlighting ten guitar-friendly keys with up to three sharps or flats to inform riffs and arrangements.
Choose a budget-friendly keyboard for guitarists learning music theory; a Yamaha with built-in styles and recording features offers reliable quality and a 61-note keyboard for chord progressions.
Learn the 10 most useful guitar keys, their sharps and flats, and the relative minor relationships, focusing on open-string access on the low e, a, and d strings.
Master scales and arpeggios with smooth, efficient hand movements; practice with a metronome at 80 bpm, coordinate left and right hands, and then put your hands together.
Explore hand independence, where each hand and each finger acts independently, revealing the piano's coordination demands. Practice daily to transfer these skills to guitar technique.
Explore the key of G major in the circle of fifths, applying the same C major fingerings to scales and arpeggios, with emphasis on the leading tone resolving to G.
Master the D major scale using the same systematic method as C major, noting its two sharps. Improve guitar technique by using arm weight and a full-hand approach for arrangements.
Explore the key of a major by reading key signatures, where the rightmost sharp is the leading tone, with examples like f sharp and c sharp.
Explore playing in the key of a major with flexible fingerings in a two-hand approach, moving scales up and down and keeping positions fluid.
Practice with the metronome, pause on the end-note sign, and go slow with both hands. If you err, stop near the mistake and replay that section.
Learn interval transformation techniques to turn major intervals into minor, augmented, or diminished forms by lowering the upper note or raising the lower note, C to E illustrates this.
Wrap up this bonus section by practicing daily with a score in hand, reading the notes, avoiding memorization, and exploring future courses on counterpoint, composition, analysis, and form.
learn to effectively create musical material at the keyboard, to use in your guitar solo and make it great!
Guitar technique is overrated.
It's like tech, there's too much of it, and a lot of it is wholly unnecessary. You only need enough technique to play well and make strong and solid musical statements. You do not need more technique than that. Many guitarists waste way too much time with their picking stuff.
It's as if you wanted to be an excellent writer, and you only practiced ABC. This is not good enough.
What you need is musical knowledge. What I call 'invisible technique'.
Are you a guitarist who wants to learn the piano or keyboard? (This course is for guitarists only. In this course, I teach piano in the most beneficial possible way to guitarists). If you are not a guitarist, this course is not for you. The piano will offer INNUMERABLE benefits to ANY musicians, and it will make you a WAY BETTER guitarist that you will EVER be! Trust me, because that's exactly what happened to me. I have been practicing guitar seriously for YEARS, and I was learning a lot. But then I started learning the piano, and my guitar playing level shot through the roof.
In this course, you'll learn, through the keyboard:
Powerful secrets about chord progressions, cadences, modulations, transitions, secondary dominants, inversions, phrase structure, musical form
How to use dissonance to great effect (the same way that great composers have done it for centuries).
How to create real melodies and give melodic shape to solos, riffs, sections
Compositional skills such as what makes a piece of music 'musically coherent'.
How to vary and embellish any melodies with passing notes, chromatic notes, appoggiature, suspensions
Why are keys of vital importance.
Which specific keys work best for the guitar.
And much more.
Do you want to learn powerful music theory through the piano that most guitarists will NEVER understand? Do you want to be in TOTAL CONTROL of all your musical activities, whether it's playing in a band or writing and performing your solos and pieces, or performing standard repertory, or ANY combination of these?
Do you want to learn to be a fearless guitarist? Trust me, no guitarist will intimidate you with their cramming 20 modes in a single solo, this stuff is boring.
There's a lot more to music theory than learning some bits in a superficial, confused and haphazard manner from most guitar players, and forgetting it quickly. Most of them learn it ineffectively, and even more of them teach it ineffectively. Music theory, if learned superficially, is next to useless. You need to go beyond 'the noob stage'. But once you do that it will offer tremendous benefits. You'll understand things about music that 95 per cent of all guitarists will never understand. You'll feel a sort of musical mastermind. That's how I feel today about myself. Creating music with effective ideas for me is now easy.
But I remember 20 years ago, it wasn't ! I was very dissatisfied. I don't have this problem anymore, period.
We will learn powerful music theory at the piano, which will be a HUGE boost for your guitar playing. The guitar fretboard makes no visual sense, and its tuning, even less. But the piano keyboard fixes all these problems. You then apply what you learn, on guitar. Works ten times better than learning anything on guitar directly. And if you already technically play guitar well enough, you won't even have to practice guitar at all, and still be an excellent guitarist!
What you know and understand is WAY more powerful than merely practicing ABC on guitar.
I will guide you step-by-step. I will tell you not only exactly what to do, and how to do it, but also what to AVOID doing. These are mistakes that only guitarists will make. As I happen to be BOTH a guitarist and a pianist, I am in the very unique position to know every do's and do not's about the piano, as related to guitarists. A pianist doesn't know all this other stuff about the guitar, but I do, which means I can tailor-made learning at the piano, to the guitarist, and pick and choose what are the things that will serve them best as musicians.
At the end of this course you will have learned powerful music theory that will seriously BOOST your musicianship on guitar.
Let's start today. Don't wait. Let me guide you through the secrets of this beautiful and fascinating instrument: the piano.