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I want to bring to everyone’s attention a fantastic post by a member of the forum regarding how to go about starting to teach guitar.

If you are a guitarist then you may have considered using your skills to help others - and earn a bit of cash along the way. Getting the students is the easiest part - the hard part comes with knowing what to teach when they are there.

I am certain you will find this post useful

http://forums.ollysguitar.com/viewtopic.php?p=888#888

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I have written a post in the guitar forum regarding the relationship between chords and scales.

This relates specifically regarding how chords are built by using the major scale. This is fundamental inforamtion for any musician as well as any guitarist.

The major scale is the building block for everything musical so it is important to try and understand how it works and how it relates to chords.

Get this under your belt and learning anything else to do with the guitar or anything musical will become much clearer and a lot easier to understand.

If there are any aspects that I have not been clear on then please either leave a comment here or feel free to comment in the forum and I, or another member of the forum will be happy to assist you.

So we have talked about chords and hopefully you are starting to be able to use these chords to play some songs. This is great but there is another vital aspect of guitar playing that you need to know if not master. You probably have already heard of - scales.

So What is a scale. Well very simply it is a chain of single notes
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In the last lesson about bar chords we discussed using the E and E minor shape to create 24 chords up the neck using just one shape! This means that if you have a songbook with chords written over the lyrics, you can pretty much play every song. The only issue with this is that you may find yourself jumping from the first fret up to the tenth fret! This takes away some of the fluidity of the music which is very important. (more…)

You should by now be starting to familiarise  your self with Bar chords. this can be one of the first hard hurdles for a guitarist to overcome as changing to bar chords from any other chord is pretty tough, especially keeping it sounding fluid. The key here is to not give up and slowly try developing little exercises to slowly introduce bar chords into a chord progression - we will go through this later on.

With reference the last lesson on Bar Chords we discussed the fact that there are several shapes bar chords can be made  from,  all are chords you should now be starting to feel familiar with  from our earlier lessons. Swap your fingers (more…)