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Scales and Chords |
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Learn how to play guitar by studying scales and chords. Practice with fun.
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It's not enough to lean a few songs. You need to understand how guitar works, where the notes are, and how the scales
make those notes to sound right. Find out how to make sense out of those hundreds of chords you have seen in the books.
- Learn all common scales: majors (7 modes), minors, pentatonics, 'exotics'.
- Easy tutorial: read the theory, press a button, see the scale or chord being played on 3D guitar.
- Understand how scales and chords are build by visualizing their notes on our "Note Wheel".
- Learn and practice common scale patterns on the guitar neck.
- Have fun practicing: chose you own patterns, chord progressions and grooves.
Click here to listen to one of the scales.
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3D Guitar
The 3D guitar with fret notes and note marks helps you to see where scales and chords lay on the guitar neck.
It makes it easier to remember shale patterns and associate
them with fret numbers.
When studying chords, it makes it easier to find chord's root and all other of it's
notes. If you try to remember the note locations while learning scales and chords,
it makes it easier for you to change from one position to another and still keep
track of your tonality.
Select a scale and see an animated 3D hand playing it with the correct fingering.
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Note Wheel
Note Wheel allows you to see scale and chord organization in more obvious way.
It shows all 12 half-tones of one octave and notes of a particular scale and it's
chord with their intervals. In example shown it's very easy to see that C Major
chord consists of notes C, E and G of the major scale with whole tones between intervals
1 and 3, and tone and a half between intervals 3 and 5.
Note Wheel shows you things, which are very difficult for a beginner to see on the
traditional note staff.
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Studying and Practicing
Select any scale, in any key, in any position and see it on the guitar neck.
Hear it played at any tempo, using any note pattern, accompanied by a full rock band.
While practicing playing the scales, select the accompaniment from many musical styles.
To make it even more fun, play scales over one of popular chord progressions.
Play a scale song at your own pace.
Scales you will learn
- Major scale and it's modes: Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Locrian
- Minor scales: Natural, Harmonic, Melodic
- Pentatonics: Major, Minor
- Others: Blues, Bebop, Diminished, Enigmatic, Neapolitanian, Neapolitanian minor, Hungarian minor
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Chords
Select any chord for a particular scale and hear it played. See it's fingering too.
Select chords by it's root and type and see it's intervals and notes on the note
wheel, over the notes of the underlying scale.
Don't just memorize a collection of chords. Learn how chord's place in the underlying
scale determines it's intervals.
Chords you will learn
Depending on it's place in the scale, each of the chord types below can produce a major, minor, diminished or augmented chord.
This gives you most of the chords you usually see in chord books.
All of these principals are explained in the tutorial.
- Triads
- Fifth (power chords)
- Seventh
- Suspended 2-nd
- Suspended 4-th
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Interactive Tutorial
Read some music theory, explained in simple terms. Click on a button to see a chord
or a scales being played and see it's notes on the Note Wheel. This is the best
way to learn music: read about it and hear it immediately. Then practice it yourself,
at you own pace, with a whole rock band backing you up. |