where does your question come from?
eg. are you trying to work out the key of a song someone else wrote? or working out the key of something you’ve written yourself?
been doing a lot of trombone practise recently, feeling like I’m making real progress
good times
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Perfect explanation. Thanks.
Yes. It starts with an E but the rest of the song does not match the scale of all the E variations I have looked at
what is the chord at 0:13 please
Been playing guitar for a few months now, after an absence of a good few years. I’m finding when I hold bar chords the muscles in my hand, in particular one that runs from the bottom of my thumb to the centre of my palm, always start aching after a few minutes. Anyone else get this? Are there any stretches/strength exercises I can do to help it? Trying to play every day if I can to get my strength up but it’s not really helping much.
I know you asked this a month back but I’m pretty sure it’s C#minor if that helps!
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think it’s mainly just practice but can also be if you aren’t getting your thumb around enough it seems to add a bit of extra strain
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I think the two chords he’s playing are effectively as below. So yeah, C#m and then A maj7
E---------4---------4
B---------5---------5
G---------6---------6
D---------6---------6
A---------4---------0
E---------x---------x
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the way he moved his hand was throwing me off. Cheers
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I’m definitely getting better at playing guitar - coming up with parts for Mute Branches stuff, and with actually executing them. I still don’t really know much about what specific chords I’m playing; or like scales or anything.
Are there any good fairly entry level resources for that sort of thing?
(Sorry if that’s a silly question!)
interesting bump.
so i think i’d like to get good at guitar. i’m currently beginner to poor, can play most simple chords/ barre chords at a stretch. what’s the best way to get better? i’d ideally like to get to a stage where i can improvise, but just maybe a course i can follow with a bit of theory thrown in to increase me playing?
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This is similar to what I’m looking for!
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I mean there are a million different YouTube channels. I’d avoid the ones titled “you’re a fucking IDIOT if you do this!!”
I like to do about half an hour theory/scale learning etc followed by playing along to a song otherwise I’d get very bored without the fun part
I think you might do mate 
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I play jazz and regularly filled in as a ringer for various bands and I only consciously know two of ttf’s points! He knows loads!
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I have a music degree but while I know how to work out which notes it would be I’m still reading “it’s fifth mode the Phrygian dominant” and thinking of this meme
also I couldn’t remember what a secondary dominant was so am now reading wikipedia
I see phrygian and I just think of Ultima
My favourite tip for guitar is taking whatever scale you want to play in or find or think of, and playing any three notes over three strings, then changing each note, maybe not even movung your hand on the fret board just play different notes in the same scale on the same three strings in a different shape. Maybe move up a note on one string, down a not on another. Basic chord shapes are fine but very limiting.
the circle of fifths can be a good way of short cutting to what chords, now you know them, generally sound nice with each other
Yesssss! Love Tommaso Zillio.
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