Tag: Composition
Chord Clinic: Play like Joni Mitchell in Open D
Joni Mitchell pioneered altered tunings in folk, rock and jazz, using open D extensively in her early career.
Chord Clinic: Expanding The Sequence
Extending a chord sequence is a great way to come up with new ideas.
Essential Blues Guitar Lessons Part Three: Chord Extensions
In the third part of his essential guide to the blues, MGR Music tutor Leigh Fuge gets a shuffle…
Essential Blues Guitar Lessons Part One: The 12-Bar Blues
In this first lesson in our exclusive new tuition series, MGR Music tutor Leigh Fuge explains the classic 12-bar blues and shows you how you can take three chords and get your blues playing kick started…
Music Composition for Beginners 5: Breaking out of CAGED (Part 2)
How to deploy CAGED and our PIRII technique to add variation to the I-IV-V and I-vi chord progressions.
Music Composition for Beginners 5: Breaking out of CAGED (Part 1)
With our ‘PIRII’ system, you’ll be able to unlock all the basic major and minor chords along the fretboard in a snap.
Music Composition for Beginners 4: Popular chord progressions
How chords color their progressions, and four iconic examples from pop music.
Music Composition for Beginners 3: The “I-IV-V” chord progression
By understanding the patterns behind this common chord progression, you can play them in other keys, or create your very own ones.
Music Composition for Beginners 2: Major, minor and dominant seventh chords
An introduction to major seventh, minor seventh and dominant chords, and how to deploy them while you play.
Music Composition for Beginners 1: Major, minor and power chords (Part...
An introduction to chord formulas and how to form power chords, major chords, and minor chords.