You don’t need music theory to be a successful musician. In fact, a lot of successful people didn’t follow traditional paths to build their legacy.

Jimi Hendrix had no idea what a diminished chord was, Microsoft founder Bill Gates didn’t graduate from college and NFL Hall of Famer Antonio Gates ...

Memorizing the notes of the guitar neck is something you’ll pick up with experience or something you can make a point to do early on. You’re going to be better off knowing the notes of the neck by heart, and the good news is there are plenty of different methods to use.

An understanding of half ...

An interval is a distance between two notes. There are several different intervals. We measure these intervals by the number of half steps, whole steps, and their position in the scale.

You’ll begin to understand this just like you would when learning to speak a new language, so don’t worry abo...

This fundamental is a little strange, but it’s actually very simple to memorize. The B-C & E-F rule states that every note in the natural musical alphabet EXCEPT for B & C and E & F have a whole-step between them. This means that B & C and E & F only have a half-step between them.

A chord is a combination of two or more notes played at the same time. They’re built on a single starting note called the root. You can create chords from all twelve notes. There are also four basic types of chords in music. For an example, we’ll use G as our root to demonstrate each type of chor...

A musical scale is a set of notes within an octave arranged by their pitch. The ascending or descending interval relationships among the note pitches define every scale.

Musical modes are scales derived from a parent scale, in this case, the Major Scale. Each mode is a slight variation of a scal...

The Major Scale contains seven modes, each with their own distinct sound. In this demonstration, you’ll hear the characteristics of the various Major Scale modes and what makes each one unique. Consider this an appetizer to the main course coming in the Music Theory: Level 1 curriculum of Guitar ...