Harmony & Theory Quickstart

I notice when I talk with my students, and my guitar playing friends and acquaintances about the subject of music theory – or at least their impressions of it – it usually turns into a conversation about how they’d like to learn but...

"It's just too complicated to try to figure it out for yourself!" -Ken C.

"No answer to the age old question of applying scales to creating improvised leads without it sounding like a scale" -Neal G.

"I can't read music" -Homer A. 

"No background. I'm 70, learning how to play. I'm reading a book about music theory, but not much transferring to practice." -Kirk P.

These are all perfectly valid frustrations. If you set out to learn by yourself with no idea where to start and no clear objective, you’ll find yourself lost in a sea of musical jargon and notation, no idea how to apply what you’ve learned and what to study next. 

If you’re like most people, you’ll find yourself picking up tidbits of information (tidbits that may be correct, flat out false, or somewhere in between) and have no way of integrating it into the bigger picture.

So, you’re left to wander Youtube and Google consuming more and more random information until you have a pile of puzzle pieces that don’t quite seem to fit together. 

It doesn’t have to be like this. 



Here, in just a few short lessons you’ll learn how to create a major scale, and derive the intervals and chords that make up major scale harmony.

This is amazingly important, and will be the foundation of your music theory knowledge that you’ll be able to take as far as you want whether you play blues, rock, metal, jazz, country, or anything else that depends on little things like how musical notes interact with one another! 

I’ve distilled the process down to the most fundamental concepts that would’ve sped up my progress tremendously when I was learning this in music college, and has worked for dozens of my students. What’s more, is this isn’t a general music course for all instruments. We’ll look at exactly how these concepts apply to guitar so you can start using them right away.

If that sounds good, grab your guitar and dive in!