Learn the fundamental building blocks of music on the fretboard.
Intervals are the bricks in the foundation of music. They may be the smallest possible chunks of musical study. Intervals are responsible for the way music sounds, and how it makes us feel. Each interval has its own unique character. Each has a crucial role to play. These lessons provide a character study of each interval, and show how to find the interval shapes on the fretboard.
An introduction to intervals and some background helpful for these lessons.
Find the same identical pitch all over the fretboard.
The basic miracle of music.
The building blocks of scales.
The building blocks of chords.
The most universal musical sounds across cultures and throughout history.
Expressive, airy, inside-out cousins of the thirds.
The color and tension of seventh chords and the leading tone.
The most dissonant interval and the core of dominant seventh chords.
A concise list of diagrams for all playable interval shapes.
Wrapping up a few odds and ends.