From the course: Acoustic Guitar Lessons: 2 Scales, Walking Bass, Hammer-Ons, and Pull-Offs

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Chord theory: Part 1

Chord theory: Part 1

From the course: Acoustic Guitar Lessons: 2 Scales, Walking Bass, Hammer-Ons, and Pull-Offs

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Chord theory: Part 1

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- So far in these lessons for basic flat picking, I've broken down and exposed what I feel are core elements of playing this style of guitar. And with a lot of the ways, the physical nature of the style is kind of defined in ways to work on that. We're gonna move a little bit into some more musical theory kind of stuff that I feel like is not only a building block for flat picking but a building block for as you move into learning more about music, learning more about playing music with other people. The first thing, one of the little things to cover back into a more rhythm and chord knowledge and things that I feel like you need to know about are what actually makes up a chord. We discussed in some of the single note scale lessons earlier how we're gonna break down the scales into their numbers. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. (C musical scale) ♫ One, two, three, four, five, six, seven ♫ and back to one is the basic scale theory that we're gonna use basically from here on…

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