I’ve been playing guitar for several years now - I’m entirely self taught and although I’m happy with my progress in certain aspects of playing guitar, my theory knowledge is terrible. Im desperate to improve but I’m not exactly sure what or where I should start learning?
Until now, I’ve basically relied on learning songs totally by ear or with tabs and finding different chord shapes and memorising them, but without really labelling what the chord is or knowing the theory behind why certain chords work together and it’s getting incredibly frustrating cause I never know where to take my chord progressions (or which chords are available to me) and it’s essentially guesswork on fitting chords together and trying to figure out which notes fit over them for improvising. I just try random chord shapes until I find some that I like and then try and string them together and remember what I’m playing as best I can for future reference
I know basic stuff like major/minor chord shapes and the pentatonic and blues scales, but thats pretty much where my theory knowledge ends. I want to be able to play more interesting chord + scale shapes, but I don’t know where to start - so if anyone can advise on what I should start learning it would be greatly appreciated as it seems like I’m at the foot of a giant mountain of knowledge and I don’t know what I should be focusing on first
Ideally, I want to be able to write stuff in a similar vein to Tom Misch’s albums (What Kinda Music - Beat Tape 2 etc) and I’m a big fan of Julian Lage too and would like to get closer to that style of playing
Submitted September 30, 2020 at 07:10AM by JohnnyFrostbite96 https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/j2jflt/help_need_to_massively_improve_my_guitar_theory/?utm_source=ifttt
Javier Rodriguez
Wednesday, September 30, 2020