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Great share - great post - thanks a lot

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There are loads of progressions out there. Some stay in one key others go in and out of other keys.

The best thing to do it to start analysing other peoples progressions. A very popular progression is the I - IV - V progression. This features in many many poplular songs that you will know.

I - IV - V represents the first, the fourth and the fifth chord from any given key.

So to play a progression in C we take the chords of the key of C

C - Dm - Em - F - G - Am - Bdim - C

The I chord is C
The IV is F
The V chord is G

Play these chords and you will have just played hundreds of songs!

If anyone does not understand this then please let me know and I will go into it deeper

The pentatonic scale is called such because it has 5 notes rather than the usual 7.

Think Pentagon - 5 sides

The great thing about the guitar is once you have learnt one Pentatonic scale you know them all.

Just shift the pattern to start on the note that you want the key to be,

In a major Pentatonic scale we miss out the 4th note and the 7th note. So in the case of Gmajor as illustrated above the notes omitted from the major scale are in fact C and F#. There is not D# in G major.

If we take the Minor Pentatonic - which is most used then we miss the 2nd and 6th note out. In the example of G Minor then you would in fact miss out the A and D# note.

It's always helpful to think in intervals to start rather than note names. Then we can apply the theory to every key.

For example, If we take the C minor Pentatonic, following the rules above,  we take the C Minor scale and omit the second note and the 6th. You now have a C Minor Pentatonic without putting in much thought.

Of course it is important to know your note names but intervals are easier and universal so begin with intervals.

Thanks for the link. I am sure some musicians here will enjoy this site

I certainly would not put Slash as the fastest player - but for enjoyment, entertainment  and melodic solos he is the best

Really great tips there on learning songs. Like it - although to comply with every step you have to be a great musician.

I would love to know where all the chord tones are on my guitar for even just one chord - and I mean know them well. Alas I do not have the time to do this!

I must say I have not tried any Vox bits before. I would always like to try out the Vox amp that Brian May uses as he really has a good tone - having said that I have nowhere to crank up and amp that loud!

Yes well done this is correct.

Basically in music, if you play the 5th chord (V) there is a very strong pull or resolve (also called a cadence) to the first chord (I).

The idea is, that whilst the secondary dominants do not contain the notes of the key you are working in, they have such a strong pull to the chord that is within the key due to the V- I relationship.

You would not just throw a secondary dominant randomly into a song, it would almost always come before the relevant I chord -

For example in the key of C we have

Cmaj7  (I) - Dmin7 (ii) - Emin7 (iii) - Fmaj7 (IV) - G7  (V) - Amin7 (vii) - Bmin7b5 (viii)

A classic progression here would be the I, IV, V progression so in this case C, F and G7

If we wanted to use a secondary dominant here we have two options. The I chord does not have a secondary dominant as the V of I is already part of the scale - This is the G7 chord. If you play between the G7 and the C you will hear how the G7 wants to resolve to the C.

The secondary dominant chord of Fmaj7 is a C7 - play between these 2 chords and you will hear the pull.

The secondary dominant of G is a D7 - again you can hear how the D7 wants to resolve to the G.

A secondary dominant chord will always come before the note it is resolving to. This means you cannot just stick it in anywhere or it will sound very odd.

Here is an example of the chord progressions we were looking at earlier with the addition of the secondary dominant.

C - C7 - F - G - C

Here we have added the C7 before the F - The C7 pulls us towards the F despite in not being part of the C major Chord scale.

These secondary dominants are all over the place in the world of music. Once you get to grips with the sound you will begin to pick them up by just listening.

Wow those songs can be hard to play correctly for your first songs - I guess just the chords are pretty easy!

i think my first proper songs I learnt on the guitar was the riff to smoke on the  water - very easy and effective - anyone can learn this pretty quick and its very good to motivate you to continue guitar!

I used to play the Piano- these days I do not play at all but it comes in hndy when adding some keyboard work to a track.

The circle of 5ths is not a major scales. It is chords 5 steps away from one another that repeats until it is back to te first chord