Hi! My two-hour instructional video Music Theory for Guitarists is good fun and highly educational. There is lots of information here for guitarists who read music and for those who don’t, fun stories and anecdotes from my experiences, and two tunes to play!
Here is the timeline so you know what is in it!
Running time: 1 hour, 54 minutes
00:00 – Introduction
01:30 – HARMONIC OVERTONE SERIES
The Effects of a Vibrating String in Our Atmosphere
01:45 – ‘E-chord’ game
05:00 – ‘Cathedral’ Effect
06:40 – Piano Overtone Experiment
08:40 – How We Use Interacting Frequencies
09:00 – Intervals
10:00 – Think Like a Storyteller
11:30 – INTERVALS WITHIN AN OCTAVE
11:30 – Seconds
14:00 – Thirds
15:30 – Fourths
17:00 – “NBC”
18:00 – Tri-Tones
21:00 – Essence of Blues in ‘A’
26:20 – Fifths
26:45 – Sixths
27:45 – “Stick With Me, Baby”
30:00 – Sevenths
31:15 – The Octave
31:50 – ‘Perfect’ Intervals
32:30 – CHORD BUILDING
37:00 – Beethoven and Napoleon
38:00 – The Monks and Perfect Intervals
39:00 – I Write/Arrange for a ‘Choir’ like Bach
40:00 – TRIADS – Chords Built from the Seven Notes of Our Scale
I ii iii IV V vi vii (vii is a ‘diminished’ chord)
45:00 – ‘Key’ — a Scale and its Chords
47:00 – B-Half Diminished Chord
48:00 – ‘Seventh’ Chords in C major
56:45 – ‘Functional’ Harmony
57:20 – “Georgia”
58:30 – Jazz Chord Witticism
59:30 – ‘Seventh Chord’ Terminology Explained
1:04:30 – THE BEAUTY OF ‘SIXTHS’ ON A GUITAR
1:05:40 – Parallel Sixths in the Key of ‘F’
1:13:30 – Parallel Sixths in the Key of ‘A’
1:19:00 – “SWEET ROTUNDA” Played & Explained
1:28:30 – “TAYLOR’S FERRY” Played & Explained
1:34:30 – Bridge of “Taylor’s Ferry”
1:35:00 – AABA Form
1:37:00 – Composing a New Section
1:39:00 – ‘Minor 9th’ Chord Explained
1:42:00 – Making Harmonics Ring
1:45:00 – Second Bridge to “Taylor’s Ferry”
1:48:00 – Two New Key-of-G Sections to “Taylor’s Ferry”
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