OFFICE HOURS 68 | Friday, Jan 21 4:00PM EST
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Hi Everyone,
This was a great Q&A!
Question 1 was from Mateus regarding soloing. Why do all these jam tracks start with the I chord? And in what key is the chord progression A Major to F Major?
Question 2: Escanor was curious about why chord charts don't include the low E string when showing an A Minor chord.
Question 3: Tasha was curious about guitar pedal essentials. What are the basic pedals to start with?
Question 4: Sev was curious about the advantages or disadvantages of learning guitar and bass simultaneously.
Question 5: Lounge Actor was curious about general guidelines for creating a chorus in a completely different key! I talk a little about ways to tinker with this concept, borrowing a little from classical and romantic. I wrote a little tune and played around with jumping into different keys. If you write something with a key change in it like this, post it in the community forum thread for this post!
Question 6: Rene, a new guitarist, was wondering when it will really feel like you're playing guitar. And some other good questions.
Question 7: Riccardo was curious about the shapes for soloing in harmonic minor using the CAGED system.
Question 8: Russ was curious about half diminished (aka m7b5) chords. Do they just take time or is there something to them?
Question 9: Rene wanted to know if it was too much to learn piano and guitar simultaneously.
Question 10: Gary asked if there are major and minor CAGED shapes. Yes, but the approach can be weird. I explain a little bit. Actually a lot.
Question 11: Sev was curious about my band, Hot Bodies in Motion. We're working on new music, coming out sometime this year!
Question 12: Sidinei was wondering - specifically - how many times through must we practice the exercises before we move on. In other words, when is the right time to move on? When we get the exercise perfectly? When we get it good "enough?" When?
Question 13: Are there any classes about reharmonization? Yes. Music Theory Monday has these lessons: MTM 24 | Reharmonization Basics, 25 | Reharmonization with 7th Chords, and Music Theory Monday 26 | More Reharmonization
Thanks for hanging out and I hope you can catch the next one! If you have any followup questions, come hang out on the community forum.
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Comments
I don't right now! But I'll think about it and let you know if I stumble upon someone
Scott Paul Johnson
2022-01-22 15:55:46 +0000 UTCI got lots of free time ;-) Do you know anyone teaching piano as well as you teach guitar on YouTube/patreon?
Rene Benkjer
2022-01-21 22:13:32 +0000 UTCI'm also learning piano. Is that too much do you think? Should I only focus on one thing?
Rene Benkjer
2022-01-21 22:11:39 +0000 UTCI'm new to guitar playing. I am doing all your exercises just repeating the exercises over and over again (scales, intervals and so on) When will I begin to feel that I am actually playing guitar? Will your music theory course get me there or should I do something else also. I have only been playing for about a month.
Rene Benkjer
2022-01-21 21:33:12 +0000 UTCknow- as a rule - how a chord progression would use the chords found in that root key. My question is - What are the suggested guidelines for writing a chorus, or a break - NOT in the root key. Is it simply going up a 5th, 3rd, etc - and using the chords found within that root for the chorus, or break?? Thanks - LoungeActor
LoungeActor
2022-01-21 21:29:46 +0000 UTCHi Scott, How can I profit from learning bass and electric guitar at same time? I mean, would you have any suggestion about practicing them for better understanding during my progress? I want to learn both, because I feel like learning bass will help me also with rhytm for understanding drums and percussion stuff. I just started to your music theory lessons. Thanks!
Sev
2022-01-21 20:59:59 +0000 UTCAwhile back I bought a fancy Morningstar MC-8 MIDI switchboard that I could control with my feet. My thinking was that instead of having a bunch of auxiliary pedals, I could control loops and effects and things through my laptop and the pedalboard. The problem is, that all feels too overwhelming and complicated. It’s still in the box. I think I just want a couple of pedals that I can easily plug in for now, without relying a laptop and interface. I’m not currently traveling around playing music so I don’t need to have the most compact rig possible, which was the big draw of the MC-8. I’ve barely experimented with pedals thus far and I would be curious to get some suggestions. I know you’ve talked about pedals before and I’m not sure where that was. It might be nice to at least get one pedal that can do a few things, but again, I don’t want to get too fancy/technical with all of it. That can be overwhelming. I love the classic sound of the old Echoplex, the extinct effect Pink Floyd and Zeppelin used. Tremolo, reverb, and distortion would be a few other nice things to have. Thx:-) Also have you or anyone in the chat used something like MIDI foot switches before? What was that like? Now to figure out where to sell it for a reasonable amount…
Tasha McManus
2022-01-21 19:17:18 +0000 UTCQuestion from Escanor: When I play an Amin chord, why shouldn't I play the low E string there according to tutorials and chord diagrams? It is in the minor scale or am I totally wrong here?
Scott Paul Johnson
2022-01-19 21:21:02 +0000 UTCScott, help me with this one please: I finally got into learning soloing. It came natural after messing around a lot with CAGED. I started put in some appergios on Rhythmus and well... now I am crazy about soloing. OK so, why all tracks for soloing everywhere starts with the I or i chord? I got it, home. But do we need it? I got confused when I did a loop with an A and F chord. I couldn't find home so I made my riff beating loud on the A note and sometimes on the C#. Both the 3rh of the chord plus home in A. It worked. But I wanna explore all shapes with this and I can't find the right key for it. If I get to away from the chords shapes its get messed up. Where I am? Dm harmonic? Dm key sounds weird also. So, what is the best approach to find a key for a progression that do not starts at the I chord? Thanks and yeah! Mr. Johnson is back!
DeDé
2022-01-19 12:29:38 +0000 UTC
