Description
Music Theory for Guitarists is a 90+ page eBook that breaks down music theory and illustrates uses of diatonic triads and 4-part chords, close, spread, and drop voicings, inversions, secondary dominants, sub V dominants, shell voicings, tensions, slash chords, borrowed chords, modes, chord scales, counterpoint, pedal point, chromatic approach, passing diminished, line cliché, and constant structures in popular guitar genres. This eBook includes diagrams, song excerpts, tablature, reference worksheets, and more.
Table of contents:
The Chromatic Scale
Interval Names
Building Major Scales
- Major Scale Quick Reference
- Modes
Diatonic Harmony
Inversions
Voicings
- Triad diagrams
- Triad examples
- 4-part chords
- Drop voicings
- Slash chords
- Examples of creative uses
- Triadic components of 7th chords
- Shell Voicings
- Tensions
Constant Structures
Dominant Chord Theory
Borrowed Chords
Chord Scales
- Scale Formula Quick Reference
- Chord Scale Forms
Chromaticism
- Chromatic Approach
- Passing Diminished
- Line Cliché
Counterpoint
Pedal Point