Tag: major

Understanding Barre Chords(part 1)

What is a barre chord? The barre chord is a movable chord that uses the first finger to lie across the strings pressing them all down whilst other fingers fret chord shapes. Effectively your first finger becomes the guitar nut or works like a capo. Understanding how a barre chord works can take some real […]

Theory: Working with Intervals (part 1)

Hopefully you have a working knowledge of theory, if not I will try and keep this as simple as possible. This article is an expansion of the previous article, The Major Scale and Intervals. I’m going to use Sonars piano roll and staff views, the piano roll will fit the same with Reaper, Cubase and […]

Free Guitar Backing Jam Track – 7thHappiness

Free Backing Track – ‘7thHappiness’ This track is a 60’s style pop song with a descending feel to it. Written for melodic guitar lead rather than endless finger noodling this jam track will make you think harder. Using 7th chords this backing track is nice to play along to with chords as well as lead […]