Music Theory Effort

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Notes on all strings

Bar Chords
On Fretboard

Watch This video to see how to


learn all the notes on the fretboard

Power Chords
On Fretboard

4-part Harmony
(SATB)

Voice Leading

Exotic Scales
(Hungarian, Neapolitan,...)
and their Harmonization
Counterpoint

Open Strings Chords


On Fretboard

Read this article to get started


on Exotic Scales (for Metal)

3-notes-per-string patterns
WARNING: do NOT use the infamous
"CAGED" system to learn your scales.
See this article to know why

Sequencing

Modal Soloing
(IMPROVISER)

Watch this video to learn


how to use sequencing to crete
original chords with no extra theory

Melody Harmonization
(SONGWRITER)
Chord Note Soloing

Read this eBook to learn


how to harmonize a melody

Triad Inversions

Notes on the 5th string

Modes Order of Brightness


(major and minor modes,
relationship with major and minor scales,
relationship with pentatonic scales)
Modes of the Major Scale
Construction and Spelling

Major Scales Harmonization


(relationship between chord in a
major key and the major scale)

Modes of the Major


Scale Harmonization
(relationship between chord in a
mode and the modal scale)

Notes on the 6th string


Triads (Maj, Min, Aug, Dim)
Construction and Spelling

Reading Chord Charts

Modes of the
Melodic Minor Scale

Read this eBook to know


how to build Maj and Min triads

"Inverse Triad Harmonization"


(What modal scales fit a given triad)
(IMPROVISER)

Minor Scales Harmonization


(relationship between chord in a
minor key and the minor scale)

Natural Notes,
Accidentals (sharps and flats),
Tones and Semitones

Modes of the
Harmonic Minor scale

Covered in this eBook

Melodic Minor Scale


Major Scales
Construction and Spelling

Triads in a given
Major or Minor Key

Harmonic Minor Scale

Explained in this eBook

Soloing On Borrowed Chords


(IMPROVISER)

Intervals

Soloing On
Neapolitan Chord
Minor Scales
Construction and Spelling
Pentatonic Scales
(Major and Minor)

Superlocrian Scale

Transposition
(using Roman numerals)
(PERFORMER)

Borrowed Chords

Neapolitan Chord

Watch this video to see how to


use pentatonic scales effectively
Watch this other video to boost
your creativity with
pentatonic scales

Aeolian Dominant
(Mixolydian b6)

Soloing On
Secondary Dominants
(IMPROVISER)

Lydian Dominant Scale

Altered Pentatonics
Cycle of Fifths

Explained in this course

Cadences
Secondary Dominants
Alterations in Key

Pentatonic Substitutions
(using the "wrong" pentatonic
scale to create a new harmony)
A couple of examples of
pentatonic substitutions

Blues, Rock-Blues and


Jazz-Blues Soloing

Function of chords in a key


(Tonic, Subdominant, Dominant)

Reading Rhythmic Notation


Rhythm Notation is
explained in the eBook

This course explain everything


you need to know about that,
including altered and substituted
pentatonics and how to use them

Chord Progressions

Modulations
(SONGWRITER)

Augmented Sixth Chords


Phrygian Dominant Scale

Reading Standard notation

Soloing on Altered
Dominant Chords
(IMPROVISER)

Standard Notation is
explained in the eBook

Simple Chord Substitutions


(Chords with same function)
(SONGWRITER)

Suspended Chords
Sight Reading
SESSIONMAN

Seventh chords
Construction and Spelling
(Major, Minor and Dominant 7th)

Modulations by
Common Chords

Song forms
(Verse, Chorus, Bridge)
(SONGWRITER)
Altered Chords and
Altered Chords Substitutions

Augmented (Exatonic) Scale

Chord Extensions
(9th, 11th, 13th)
Chord Substitutions:
Add Extensions

Advanced Substitutions
(IMPROVISER)

Tritone Substitution

Modulations via Diminished Chords


Diminished Scale (HW)
Fully Diminished Chords

An introduction to Diminished and


other exotic scales for Metal players

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