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Ted Vieira, Jazz Guitarist

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Free Online Lessons

Here are a few lessons that cover some fundamentals that all serious guitarists should have a firm grasp of. They should be helpful to you and please feel free to print them out and share them with others.

Tips on General Playing Technique

 

Major Scale Patterns

Scale Exercises

Minor Scale Patterns
With a discussion on Relative Keys

Major Pentatonic Scale Patterns

Minor Pentatonic Scale Patterns
With a discussion on Relative Keys

Major Scale Harmonization
Part 1: Triads

Major Chord Forms

Minor Chord Forms

Major Arpeggio Patterns

Minor Arpeggio Patterns

Major 7th Chord Forms

 

Minor 7th Chord Forms

Dominant 7th Chord Forms

Half-Diminished Chord Forms

Full-Diminished Chord Forms

Major Scale Harmonization
Part 2: Seventh Chords

Modes

Minor Scale Harmonization
With extensive discussion on Relative Keys

Diminished Scale Patterns

Diminished Arpeggio Patterns

Sight Reading 101 – Free Interactive Online Course

Just a note, I added this course to my website back in the previous millenium. You might notice links to a Glossary mentioned at the bottom of each page. Unfortunately that file got lost somewhere along the way. I’ll keep looking. Have fun!

PLEASE NOTE: Believe it or not, I added these courses to the website back in the ’90s!!! Back then I was using MIDI format for the audio examples. Unfortunately that’s not such a current media format for the web these days, so it’s very likely when you get to any sections that have audio file examples, the MIDI player no longer shows up. Very sorry for that. I hope you find the other exercises useful. Thanks – Ted

Launch Sight Reading 101

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