Mike Edwin
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Hey everyone! Welcome to Infinite Guitar!
A little about me: My name is Mike, I’m 23 years old. I live in Melbourne Australia and live for the 6 string guitar, and I mean that literally. My life is completely consumed by music in one way or another. Being a full time student as well as a private teacher and a performer, there aren’t many hours in my life when I’m more than 15ft from the guitar. Since becoming a part of this website those hours have become significantly less too.
Much of my free hours are spent playing Jazz and Classical styles, but I do like to indulge in other forms of music. I also play a bit of piano and flute, but neither very well.
Some of the goals I hope to achieve with Infinite Guitar is to create a working collection of guitar lessons focused on topics such as improvisation, related theoretical discussions, technical development, and of course many examples of how we can apply these things in a practical way.
Along the way I will also be recording a collection of classical works for all skill levels.
So, have a browse through my guitar lessons, grab your axe and we can get right into it!
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Hello Guitar players. I hope you're ready to learn! During this tutorial we will be taking a close look at a number of intervals available to us within the Major scale. We will also be usin...
Scale Degrees. The term 'Degree' is used to identify a particular note in a scale. The point of using this terminology is that it can make life a whole lot easier when trying to identify ch...
The Major Third. The Major third can be found by combining the first and third degrees of a major scale. You can create this harmony over any note by simply counting up 3 degrees of a majo...
Major Triad. The next interval we need to look at is our Perfect 5th. Otherwise represented as 'P5'. We can create this harmony by combining the first and 5th notes of any major scale. In ...
The Major 7th. A Major 7 chord is built with the 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th degrees of a major scale. At this point, I want to begin introducing chord formulas. The formula for our Major 7 chor...
The Major 2nd - Sus 2 chord. We are now up to the Major 2nd. When stacking intervals from the major scale, we don't always wind up with a Major chord. Here is the first example. A harmonic...
The Perfect 4th. Suspended 4. This interval is found by adding the 1st and 4th degrees of a major scale. Used in context of a chord, the Sus4 chord is a great representation. Exactly like...
The Major 6. Used in a chord, this is one of my favorite sounds. We identify the Major 6 by playing the first and sixth degrees of the Major scale. The formula for this chord in full woul...
The Major 9. The Major 9th interval comes from moving 9 scale degrees away from the root of the Major scale. As you will notice, the 9th scale degree is the same as the 2nd. When using thi...
Over the past several lessons, we have taken a close look at a series of intervals available to us when harmonizing the Major scale. Every interval so far has been put in context to the Root...
Welcome Guitar Players! Over the next several lessons we are going to be looking at possible chord substitutions that can be used over a 'I Vi ii V' progression. To begin with, I want you ...
Tonic Substitute The first substitution I want to introduce is called a 'tonic substitute'. It is also known to some as 'two to the right'. In the key of C Major there are 7 chords. That's...
Now we are going to experiment with turning some minor chords into Dominant Chords. Dominant chords generally resolve down to a Perfect 5th. You can see an example of this in our progressio...
Before we get into Tri-tone substitutions, I owe some people the answer to the homework task from last lesson. Am7 contains the notes - A C E G also expressed as R b3 5 b7. If the b3 (minor...
The next chord we are going to manipulate is chord ii (D7), which was earlier a Dm7. Just as in our previous lesson, we are going to identify the 5th of this chord: D F# (A) C. Now we lowe...
For our final tri-tone substitution, A7 will become Eb7. We identify the 5th of A7: A C# (E) G. Lower it by a half step. Eb Build a new Dominant7 chord from Eb. Eb7 = Eb G Bb Db Once agai...
Chords! A chord is a series of notes played together. There are hundreds even thousands of chords available to play on the guitar. Once you begin to understand the essentials of building c...
Building Major Chords is quite simple, and with this video I hope to show just that. We begin by picking the chord we want to build. In this case it will be a CMaj chord. Play the Major sc...
So now that we have built a Major triad and Major7th chord. Lets make a minor chord! The process of building minor chords is exactly the same, bar one thing. If the chord is a 'minor triad...
Hello! and welcome to the Rhythm Changes. This tutorial will have two ends to it. Right now we are just going to learn a 32 bar solo. The solo will be broken up into two 16 bar segments for...
Here are the first 16 bars of this solo. Be sure to play it with a steady swing and practice it slowly to begin with. Then up your tempo as you become more comfortable with it. Also, I hav...
This video includes the bridge section and the final 8 bars, slowed down. Once again, take it slow to begin with and keep it swinging. In the next video I will introduce you to the chord c...
