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A full course on ear training your intervals for guitar. Print these charts out NOW!
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![The BEST Way to Learn Scales and Make Music [Composing with Bebop Dominant]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/T_YiT002Yy0/mqdefault.jpg "The BEST Way to Learn Scales and Make Music [Composing with Bebop Dominant]
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I can’t wait to share with you all the absolute best way to learn scales and shapes on the guitar, and it’s totally free- I swear this isn’t an ad!!! It’s just literally the best resource I’ve found for guitarists who are into learning scales and shapes (hope you are!) and should actually save you quite a bit of cash on paper charts and books.
In addition to showing you all how I use and practice with Fretastic, I demonstrate how easily your scale practicing can turn into a real song, by walking through the process of finding a scale, choosing it’s accompanying chords, and adding other instruments like bass, drums, and keys. I composed and produced the music in Ableton 10 and Reason 11, and as I mention, there were quite a few technical difficulties that needed to be overcome.
Regardless, with patience and persistence I was able to get back on track, and even film a music video for the concept. If I were to finish this track into a whole song, it would take way more time than I am comfortable with just to upload it for this video. So instead, I’ll be completing this song on my own time and will upload it to Spotify when it’s done – I’ll let you all know when that happens!
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And his guitar channel as well!
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Table of Contents
00:00 Intro
01:23- Lesson begins
06:19- Bebop Composition
11:58- New song!")
![Pink Floyd Jam Track in E minor [FOLLOW ALONG]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UMyTgsV7_FE/mqdefault.jpg "Pink Floyd Jam Track in E minor [FOLLOW ALONG]
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Free online guitar lessons for beginners, intermediate, and advanced players. Located in Crystal Lake, Jake Lizzio provides free jam tracks and video lessons for guitar players, as well as music theory videos and other music education content.")
![Getting Started with Harmonic Minor-Leads and Jamming [GUITAR LESSON / MUSIC THEORY]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UkGIfrdMgTA/mqdefault.jpg "Getting Started with Harmonic Minor-Leads and Jamming [GUITAR LESSON / MUSIC THEORY]
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There is a lot to talk about with Harmonic Minor but we have to start somewhere! It is a great exotic sounding scale and I suggest you begin by getting familiar with the shape on guitar (or your instrument of choice) and also start to try recognizing the unique feeling it provides.
From there, we can begin our next lesson, which will be writing chords in Harmonic Minor, which will lead us into writing actual songs in different genres.
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Table of Contents:
00:00 Intro
01:23 What is Harmonic Minor?
02:57 Scale Shapes
04:02 Improv Practice Tips
07:58 Wrapping Up")
![How To Arrange Chords into BEAUTIFUL 4-PART HARMONIES [Music Theory - Voice Leading]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UkatcvIuF4U/mqdefault.jpg "How To Arrange Chords into BEAUTIFUL 4-PART HARMONIES [Music Theory - Voice Leading]
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Writing a 4 part harmony can be very difficult if you dont understand the basic principles behind voice leading and arrangement. There are countless rules one must follow to emulate the stylings of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven. But these rules are not needed just to arrange a simple progression! This video goes through the fundamental concepts of harmony and arrangment without getting into the weeds of clefs, notation, and actual rules.
By the end of the lesson, you should be able to arrange any chord progression for other instruments, and hopefully get new insight into the sorts of complex harmonies that can exist within a chord progression.
Thank you to my Patreon Supporters for all their help and kind words. They deserve as much credit for this channel as I do!
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TAKE NOTE:
The arrangement I make in this video at the end violates several golden rules. For one, it includes parallel fifths (parallel motion that occurs a perfect fifth apart). As a teacher who lives in the year 2022, I dont want you to burden yourself with these rules unless youre trying to sound like music from the common practice era, or unless youre trying to pass tests in music school (or if youre just really curious).
On Parallel Motion: If both voices are moving together in the same interval class, its parallel. If one voice moves up a m3 while the other moves up a M3, those are both THIRDS. The motion is parallel. If one voice moves up a m3 while the other moves up a fourth, those are no longer the same interval class (thirds and fourths), and would not be called parallel motion, but instead would be called similar motion.
Professional arrangement and orchestration takes many more skills than just learning to voice lead. A real arranger/composer will keep in mind the range of the instrument and has to notate music in different clefs. Arrangers also take note of the tonal qualities of instruments and exploit their frequency spectrum to either blend well together or clash and sound juxtaposed.
So this lesson wont turn you into a pro arranger - but it WILL get you writing your first 3 and 4 part harmonies and I think its a great start to composing more advanced harmony. I highly advise you combine this lesson with my last lesson on harmony, found here https://youtu.be/8lCf7q_VPHA
I also suggest you consider how many more options you will have when writing your voices if you are comfortable with your diatonic seventh chords, inversions, and secondary dominants.
Seventh Chords: https://youtu.be/3JizNRwHYNY
Inverted Chords: https://youtu.be/LFN-eKved_8
Secondary Dominants: https://youtu.be/py4HaueW50Q
If you know all this stuff, youll know exactly how I wrote this arrangement!
https://youtu.be/EC_Fvs3TEj4
Also, I said at 17:50ish that there is only one way to play that E7 on guitar. But there is another....
00:00 Intro
01:51 Basic Concepts
06:15 Arranging in 3 voices
10:50 Why the V become V7
13:10 Arranging in 4 voices
16:20 Make It Into MUSIC!
19:41 Outro")
![How To Easily Recognize Chords- Alternate Chord Names [Songwriting / Composition / Ear Training]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Vqf75tl6aBA/mqdefault.jpg "How To Easily Recognize Chords- Alternate Chord Names [Songwriting / Composition / Ear Training]
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Give your chords alternate names that describe their feeling. Doing this helps you identify them quicker, and makes composing much easier.
Skip to the Chord Associations at 03:03
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