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[/caption]90% of them ditch their efforts. The reality is, there isn't much practical use for scales if you don't have a complete knowledge of the musical spectrum. And learning more chords just adds to the confusion. So the life of the musician is reduced to simply memorizing cool songs. I think you and I both know what the problem with that is. A musician, like any artist, needs to be creative. Your creativity is crippled (if not completely deadened) if all you do is play chord progressions and memorized guitar riffs from your favorite songs. Before you can truly learn to play the guitar creatively, you must first give yourself the chance. You must first attempt to be creative. You must apply the brush to the canvas. You must create your own melodies as opposed to just memorizing other peoples' music. But the question must be asked: how can you play creatively -- create your own unique melodies -- without going to music school and spending 6-8 hours per day learning intricate concepts like key signatures, diatonic and pentatonic patterns, octaves, semitones and forms of musical notation? The answer is simple! Like many other guitarists before me, I've found the quick route which uses all of the advanced concepts you would learn in musical school, but doesn't require any real understanding of them whatsoever to create your own unique melodies. It's like driving an automatic to get from point A to point B without having to understand this chart: Most guitarists who know how to play a few basic chords don't really know what they are playing. Despite the popular notion, they are not playing a whole bunch of notes together because they happened to sound good together but they are playing particular notes in scales because musicians over centuries have discovered patterns of notes in scales that harmonize with each other. Well, the two critical pieces of information here are that chords themselves are essentialy pieces of scales and that you know how to play them. This means that you can play parts of scales (and create melodies from them), just by using the basic chords that you already know. It's that simple. If you find the above explanation even the least bit confusing, do not worry. This guide is designed for the musically illiterate. Knowing how to play a guitar chord is pretty much the only pre-requisite required to adequately comprehend the contents of this guide. The author of this eBook assumes you know nothing except how to strum a basic guitar chord. The important thing to know is that an arpeggio is a type of broken chord and a broken chord is a number of notes taken from a chord, not played in any particular order. The broken chord can be turned into a melody -- that is what you will be learning in this guide: how to create melodies from chords you already know. By reading The Guitar Melodies in Minutes Guide, you will use broken chords...
[/caption]90% of them ditch their efforts. The reality is, there isn't much practical use for scales if you don't have a complete knowledge of the musical spectrum. And learning more chords just adds to the confusion. So the life of the musician is reduced to simply memorizing cool songs. I think you and I both know what the problem with that is. A musician, like any artist, needs to be creative. Your creativity is crippled (if not completely deadened) if all you do is play chord progressions and memorized guitar riffs from your favorite songs. Before you can truly learn to play the guitar creatively, you must first give yourself the chance. You must first attempt to be creative. You must apply the brush to the canvas. You must create your own melodies as opposed to just memorizing other peoples' music. But the question must be asked: how can you play creatively -- create your own unique melodies -- without going to music school and spending 6-8 hours per day learning intricate concepts like key signatures, diatonic and pentatonic patterns, octaves, semitones and forms of musical notation? The answer is simple! Like many other guitarists before me, I've found the quick route which uses all of the advanced concepts you would learn in musical school, but doesn't require any real understanding of them whatsoever to create your own unique melodies. It's like driving an automatic to get from point A to point B without having to understand this chart: Most guitarists who know how to play a few basic chords don't really know what they are playing. Despite the popular notion, they are not playing a whole bunch of notes together because they happened to sound good together but they are playing particular notes in scales because musicians over centuries have discovered patterns of notes in scales that harmonize with each other. Well, the two critical pieces of information here are that chords themselves are essentialy pieces of scales and that you know how to play them. This means that you can play parts of scales (and create melodies from them), just by using the basic chords that you already know. It's that simple. If you find the above explanation even the least bit confusing, do not worry. This guide is designed for the musically illiterate. Knowing how to play a guitar chord is pretty much the only pre-requisite required to adequately comprehend the contents of this guide. The author of this eBook assumes you know nothing except how to strum a basic guitar chord. The important thing to know is that an arpeggio is a type of broken chord and a broken chord is a number of notes taken from a chord, not played in any particular order. The broken chord can be turned into a melody -- that is what you will be learning in this guide: how to create melodies from chords you already know. By reading The Guitar Melodies in Minutes Guide, you will use broken chords...
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