Archive | May, 2010
Quartal Arpeggios
I went through the theory of Quartal Harmony in my Previous article. Now lets move on to the the arpeggios themselves. Charting out the intervals, we have… Lets look at these notes over one octave on the guitar neck. As you can see these have som big stretches in them. You may find it easier to play them [...]
Continue reading...Quartal Harmony for the Guitarist
20 May 2010
If you want to get to the arpeggio charts, click here: Quartal Arpeggio Charts Background Standard Western musical harmony is based on stacked thirds. So for example a C Major Chord is made by playing a “C”, the note a third above that which would be an “E” then the note a third above that which would [...]
Continue reading...Dominant 13th Chords
18 May 2010
Lets start by drawing the intervals contained in a Dominant 13th chord. These chords can potentially contain every note in the Mixolydian Scale, Given that a guitar only has 6 strings, and there are 7 possible notes in this chord, we have a problem! The easiest solution is to prioritize the chord tones. My approach is to [...]
Continue reading...Natural Guitar Harmonics #2
17 May 2010
We covered the basics in the first article (Natural Guitar Harmonics). Now lets apply this to some fun stuff. E Minor 7th Pentatonic Scale I’m going to cheat a little bit here and include an F# note as well, just because its a handy note to have in this tonality. The number in brackets corresponds with the fret [...]
Continue reading...Natural Guitar Harmonics
16 May 2010
Guitar Harmonics are created by getting the guitar string to vibrate in such a way as to make certain overtones stand out much louder than others. Guitarists tend to differentiate between “natural” and “artificial” harmonics. Natural harmonics are made by open strings. Artificial harmonics are generally created on fretted notes. Lets start by listening to some… low-e-natural-harmonics.mp3 Playing Harmonics The [...]
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- Diminished 7th Arpeggios
- The Neapolitan Minor Scale
- The Persian Scale
- The Bebop Scale – 3 Notes Per String
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- Quartal Harmony for the Guitarist
- Sweeping 9th Arpeggios
- The Neapolitan Major Scale
- The Harmonic Major Scale
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