Every Chord and Every Scale... for Free!, Best kept secret on the web: Every Chord and Scale for Free! Options

[cpinegar]

At first glance this post may seem like shameless self-promotion, but it's really here to let you know of a great free tool to help you learn any chord or scale in any key, in any tuning, by seeing it and hearing. I'm not kidding when I say it's the best kept secret on the web.

I highly recommend that you visit http://www.blackbeltguitar.com/ChordScaleGenerator.php on this site. Spend enough time with this tool to visualize the relationships between the modes in one key, and the same mode in dfferent keys.

The scale and chord generator on this page has every basic scale in every key and every tuning and almost every exotic scale you will ever play. It's also good for learning modes. The tool works for both righties and lefties. You can even listen to the chords and scales being played.

Check it out and if you have any specific questions please ask. It's free, and we put it up just for you.


Cheers,

Craig

[joshimax]

Hey Craig, I always figured if you can't talk yourself up then why will anyone else right! I think it's a great tool, I check this site occasionally from work (in my breaks of course... yeah... that's right.... in my breaks....) and firewalls stop it from working.

I've used it at home guitar on lap, laptop on lounge next to me and it's a really handy tool. In addition to adding a visual to the modes etc it's helping learn the fretboard.

Keep it up mate.

Josh

[benjabob]

This is easily the most useful tool I've come across to improve my understanding of guitar theory, especially modes, scales and chords, its excellent!

[Dragon]

hey cant we download this thing i dont have a internet connecton at home..

[Linda_sl]

I have been using the major scales with some flattened 3rds and 5ths for all my improvising.I am wanting to study some modes and try working with them. Where should I start?Also ,I am tired of just playing the 1-4-5 chords all the time. I understand the theory behind chord construction but dont know how to pepper these chords in my playing.Are they some theory on what chord can be played were?My listening material is mostly tradiotonal lots of Bill Monroe and Doyle Lawson and I dont hear them using a lot of fancy chords. Who would be a bluegrasser I could listen to for these chords?
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[cpinegar]

I would recommend you go listen to Tony Rice. I think you could sample his work on Pandora. Tony claims to play "spacegrass" which is a blending of bluegrass with a little extra jazz-mindedness. His progressions are beautiful.

Cheers,

Craig

[genrichkarlovich...]

Hey, Ive noticed that in certain chords like E, F, G, etc, the first, middle, and last notes of a chord are the notes that name the chord. However, in chords like C or D, there are only two notes that name the chord. So, my question is how do you know what notes make up a chord, and what about the non-major chords, like 7ths and minors?

[Dopmeva09]

Every now and then I want to buy a PRS, too... until I realize I have no money, realistically need another guitar like I need a whole in the head, and remember that you cant get a SC245 in jet white.

[enlaply09]

Right now, when i play my guitar i usually just make up stuff and play lead guitar with the blues scale. i need to expand. What are some good scales to know and or anything else that is good for lead playing n stuff that i can work in with my blues scale?

tips n tricks are always appreciated too

[BRF2 (new regist...]

Hi enlaply09,

i love the blues and blues music was the "school" wich i began to develop some guitar skills.

Blues is all about feeling and the tranferring of your emotions and mood to the guitar, and that makes the blues a difficult style.

There are some specific notes that you can add to the blues scale, and that are very much used in blues tunes.

The Third Major for example, is often used, and you can use it in relation whit other specific notes producing diferent licks that leads to diferent things. Another thing that blues guitarists do is switch to a Major scale and return to a Minor blues scale, at some moment of the blues cadence.

Another cool note to use on a blues lick is the Second major interval. You can get a very good blues sound by creating something whit the tonic, the second and the third minor interval, whit half step bend on the second, full bend on the third minor and ending on the tonic or third minor. In this case, the note that you'll end the lick will lead to a determined continuation of the lick.

The hard part is how to create a good sound whit the various possibilitys. In my opinion we have to learn and pay a lot of attention to the great masters of the music style that we're playin, in this case, the blues. There are a lot of them, such as: Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, BB King, Robert Cray, and so on..
That's what i'm trying to do lately, learn whit those guys compositions and improvisations.

Don't know if i've been helpfull to you.. but anyhow, keep playing the blues!

Cheers