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Tutorials on all aspects of becoming an accomplished musician.

Major 7ths Playing By Name Guitar

In this lesson, you will be asked to play Major 7ths on your instrument.

A Major 7th on the guitar looks like this:

If it crosses over the break, we add one fret and it looks like this:

Minor 7ths Playing by Name Guitar

In this lesson, you will be asked to play Minor 7ths on your instrument.

A Minor 7th on the guitar looks like this:

If it crosses over the break, we add one fret and it looks like this:

6ths Playing by Ear Up

In this lesson we will hear examples of Major and Minor 6ths played upwards and try to play them on your instrument.

Hear are some examples:

Please press the Exercise button below.

Major 6ths Playing By Name Guitar

In this lesson, you will be asked to play Major 6ths on your instrument.

A Major 6th on the guitar looks like this:

This fingering is a bit of a stretch.

If it wraps around to the next string it looks like this:

Octaves – Playing By Ear Chord

In this lesson, you will hear an octave played as a chord, then play it by ear on your instrument.

Octaves can be challenging to hear because when both notes are played together they sound almost alike.

Please press the Exercise button below.

Octaves – Playing By Ear Down

In this lesson, you will hear an octave played downwards, then play it by ear on your instrument.

Please press the Exercise button below.

Octaves – Reading Music Guitar

In the next set of lessons you will play Octaves on the guitar by name.

On the guitar an octave looks like this:

If it crosses over the break we add one fret and it looks like this:

Tritones – Playing by Name on Guitar

In the next few lesson, you will play Tritones on your instrument by name.

Tritones have the following names: Augmented 4th, Sharp 4, Diminished 5th, Flat 5.

On the guitar a Tritone looks like this:

Perfect 5ths Guitar

Perfect Fifths

A Perfect Fifth is the distance between the first and 5th notes of the scale.