Archive for December, 2008

Major and minor triads

Ear training is the single best exercise you can do to improve your musicianship. A good place to start is jump right into identifying triadic chords. Triads are common in popular and classical music so finding examples in your everyday listening should be easy. This article intentionally shortcuts some rigors of music [...]

Open Position Guitar Chords

These chords are called open position because they all contain open strings in their voicing. All of these chords are important to know. The best way to learn them is to find a song with a couple of these chords in it and learn to play the song. Traditional folk music is a good place to look and many of the tunes are freely available online.