Technically a chord needs three tones. What Jake is showing in the video are dyads made from root tone and its fifth. A true power chord doubles the root tone thus giving it three tones and technically making it a chord. How is this so? Well if you remember from Intervals, the Fretboard and the Strings, the interval between a lower string and a higher string is a perfect fourth, except between the G and the B, which...
Monday, December 20, 2021
Saturday, October 10, 2020
Let's Get Musical with Chord Tones: The C-F-G Diddy
In your lesson, Fretboard Mastery with Chord Tones, you learned the tones that make up the major chords E Major, A Major, D Major, G Major, B Major, C Major, Major, B♭ Major.When you played those to help you learn the fretboard, did you hear something? Did you hear a hint of something musical sounding?Well today, let us build on what...
Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Fretboard Mastery with the Guitar Circle of Fourths™ and Three Tones
Atop every page of the Riptide Guitar site, you will see something named Riptide Guitar's Guitar Circle of Fourths™. For these exercises, you will travel around the Guitar Circle of Fourths starting with E and ending up on G♭. You will play three tones that will help you further to burn the fretboard into your mind.
E Tones
The three...
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Use the Riptide Guitar’s Guitar Circle of Fourths to Get the Tones of Any Scale or Chords of Any Key
The Guitar Circle of Fourths rocks. It does. You can use the Guitar Circle of Fourths to work out the tones of any scale or chords of any key.
In Riptide Guitar’s Guitar Circle of Fourths, I showed you how you can find the Guitar Circle of Fourths on the fretboard.
MINOR 5 (MINOR PENTATONIC)
The intervals of any minor pentatonic...
Span the Fretboard to Find Tones Easily
You can find the same tones all over the fretboard with ease. From Intervals, the Fretboard and the Strings, you should know that going down one string and left three frets produces a M2. In Riptide Guitar, I call that finger stretch the pinky-to-pointer-down span.
By intervals, you should know that a M2 is...
The Seventh Fret Secret
In Intervals, the Fretboard and the Strings, I showed you how knowing intervals helps you to gain guitar mastery. Knowing a bit about intervals helps you further reveal the secrets of the fretboard.
Any tone on the 7th fret of a P4 string (E, A, D, G) produces a P5 for that string. In Riptide Guitar, we think of the string (B) as being...
Shapes? Say What? Riptide Guitarists Play Runs! Master the Minor 5 (Pentatonic Minor) Runs.
Back in my teenhood, a guy in his late 20s from NYC, a guitarist and maybe a heroin junkie tossed me a softcover workbook-style book. I cannot remember the title of the book but I believe Alfred Publishing produced the work. This book was old. The copyright must have been dated to the early 1970s.
Other than not getting past the first couple...
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