Guitar Theory

Introduction

Welcome to what many guitarists think of as “the next step.”

As a guitarist and a musician, you want to be continually improving your skills and abilities. You’ve gone through the basic steps of learning simple chords and now you’re looking to make your guitar playing more musical, more like the playing of the guitarists who’ve inspired you. And you’re thinking that learning more about “guitar theory,” or how music theory relates directly to the guitar, will be a good place to start.

So let’s begin with some good news: if you’ve played just a little guitar, even just a lesson or two ages ago, you already know some guitar theory. In fact, you’ve probably picked up quite a bit of guitar theory and music theory already and don’t know ...