jamey Faulkner

Here are the current ways you can study with me:

• Live – Guitar Lessons in Indianapolis, IN. In Studio, In-Home [please call 317-300-4618]. If you are interested in me traveling to you – long distance [anywhere in the world friendly to friendly Americans] – please call.
• Webcam – Skype or ooVoo [my user name is i.luvguitar on both - you can also call from your web browser with ooVoo - call now]
• Free Online Lessons at i Love Guitar
• i Luv Guitar Lesson Library

Playing & teaching guitar gets better with every passing year. I love guitar. I love teaching. Seriously.

An interesting thing happens when chords move up the fretboard. The Root moves to the 3rd of the chord, the 3rd moves to the 5th, & the 5th moves to the Root. They go in a cycle.

We can play melodic arpeggios up a single string. When we do this, we can see the fret spacing of the type of chord we are playing. In this lesson, we are playing Major chords, which are built as a 4-3, where the 4 is a Major 3rd [4 half steps = 4 frets] & the 3 is a minor 3rd [3 half steps = 3 frets]. The 3rd is 4 frets away from the root, the 5th is 3 frets away from the 3rd, & the root is 5 half steps away from the root [it's a Perfect 4th back to the root].

We can also stack the Root, 3rd, & 5th on 3 adjacent strings. When we do this, the chord is either in Root Position [the root is on the lowest string], 1st inversion [the 3rd is on the lowest string], or 2nd inversion [the 5th is on the lowest string].

What follows is the C Major Triad on 3-string sets. As we look for the next way to play the same set of 3 tones, the root moves to the 3rd, the 3rd to the 5th, the 5th to the root. Brilliant!

A change in color [black/white] is a new chord.

Play through each string set, & realize the chord components along the way. We’ve broken C down into chunks. All of these chunks are C Major triads. They are all fragments of the CAGED cycle as well [forms are skipped].

Zero-Map for G Major [G Ionian] in Standard Tuning. G = zero.

If G is zero, & we apply the phone number filter [221-2221] to it , A = 2, B = 4, C = 5, D = 7, E = 9, F# = 11, G = 12 or 0 [2 - 0 = 2, 4 - 2 = 2, 5 - 4 = 1, etc.].

Standard Tuning with G as Zero

Chords in G, find these number patterns within the One-Map

To do

• Play chord scales [either linear or fixed position]. The chord scale for G Major is G-Am-Bm-C-D-Em-F#o-G.
• Play progressions – start with I-vi-ii-V-I. Then try I-IV-V-IV-I.
• Write progressions – find voicings you like & order them in ways that make sense to you ear.