What A Musician Needs To Know

Most of us play an instrument or another, but I wrote this from the point of view of a guitarist. By this, I mean that if a person says he knows the instrument, these are some of the basic things he should know.

THEORY

In this post, I will only name a few topics of theory that is necessary to know. They are:

1)Number of notes in music.

2) The formation of a major scale: the seven positions.

3)Pentatonic Minor and Blues scales.

4)The Three types of minor scales.

5)Arpeggios.

6)Chord Families.

7)Styles of Music.

8)Mode/Modal Theory.

9)Transposing.

10)Rhythm Patterns.

Note that I plan on covering a topic or two of these every post from now on. So be sure to see my next blog post! Thank you.

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