Guitar Theory

[Omegstrat6]

Thanks for adding this Soulman, I'll look up the acoustic one he has done as I haven't advanced enough in my playing to warrant buying an electric guitar yet but that's the plan. I can understand the theory of keys, scales, circle of 5ths but translating that into chords and in particular how these guys know the shapes further up the fretboard when they are different to the ones we all start with isn't going well....

I'm the other way around WCV! I know quite a few "moveable" chord shapes up and down the fretboard and generally know which chords go well together (mostly from learning a range of songs) but am still learning the theory for why they go together. I learnt one scale early on-the blues pentatonic funnily enough😀- but never progressed beyond that and you can't just play that all the time! Trying to learn keyboard has been quite helpful as I am learning more about music theory now but must be getting old as I'm finding some of it hard to grasp at times!

As for acoustic v electric, it is probably true that you will be a better electric guitar player if you learn on an acoustic first as they can be more unforgiving and highlighting your mistakes or problems in technique sort of forces you to correct them and improve but you do need an electric to play certain styles of music. If you have the money I would get one sooner than later because having both will greatly increase the variety of styles of music you can play -and if you get an amp like a Line6 with built in effects you'll have fun playing around with different sounds like distortion/delay etc. too.

[westcountryvillain]

I'm the other way around WCV! I know quite a few "moveable" chord shapes up and down the fretboard and generally know which chords go well together (mostly from learning a range of songs) but am still learning the theory for why they go together. I learnt one scale early on-the blues pentatonic funnily enough��- but never progressed beyond that and you can't just play that all the time! Trying to learn keyboard has been quite helpful as I am learning more about music theory now but must be getting old as I'm finding some of it hard to grasp at times!

As for acoustic v electric, it is probably true that you will be a better electric guitar player if you learn on an acoustic first as they can be more unforgiving and highlighting your mistakes or problems in technique sort of forces you to correct them and improve but you do need an electric to play certain styles of music. If you have the money I would get one sooner than later because having both will greatly increase the variety of styles of music you can play -and if you get an amp like a Line6 with built in effects you'll have fun playing around with different sounds like distortion/delay etc. too.

Cheers Omega - how did you learn the moveable chord shapes?

[soulman101]

Chees Omega - how did you learn the moveable chord shapes?

HI, if you look on You Tube video' for the caged system this will explain it all.
I learned from a book called Fretboard Logic, you can get it on E bay, I gave mine away to someone who was going to learn the guitar.
But after a week he gave up and sold the book on E bay ,which didn't please me.
Wish I kept now and sent on to you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7phLwr-7EY