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learning how to play guitar can be a lot of confusing work or it can be a lot of fun. most people get to the first part just fine, but never seem to make it to the second let me tell you a story when i was six years old remember the good old days when life was carefree my parents put me in piano lessons. My teacher was an old woman who lived across the street and down a block. I went to visit her once a week to learn how to play.

you know what? she made learning to play more boring than watching paint dry . And as a six year old, if given the choice, i probably would have chosen the paint

she tried teaching me music theory, but it was like cutting down a forest with a pocketknife. More on that story in just a minute

can't i just learn the chords? most beginner guitar players start out by learning a few chords and some simple songs. that's cool its a good start. but as i've helped other people learn the guitar, i've observed that there's a general lack of understanding as to exactly why we play what we do.

more importantly, i've noticed this lack of understanding really slows down progress, and even worse can make learning the guitar confusing and feel like a lot of hard work

the good news is there's a key that will there's this concept in music called i iv v . If that looks like greek to you, it's not it's latin

i-iv-v (that's 1 4 5 in english) refers to the root note (i), or tonic, and the two notes in perfect relation to it (iv and v). Because it is a numbering system, it is universal, and applies to every single key.

simply put this lesson on i-iv-v will show you how the guitar fretboard is built on patterns of i-iv-v, and once you see the patterns, your guitar will come alive in a whole new way.

have you ever been in an unfamiliar city, looked at a road map, and tried to figure out what was going on?

ok, good, so you know it takes a while to get your bearings and to find your way, right? now have you ever had a friend visit your home town, and showed them where to go on a map? chances are that map just intuitively made sense to you, because it described familiar landmarks, right?

have you ever struggled to follow the music or tab, without really knowing why the notes are where they are why you need to play them in that order? that's because you're playing in unfamiliar territory

i will give you the key understanding i-iv-v as it relates to your guitar will be the key that unlocks your guitar in your hands unleashing your true potential as a player.

when i was a teenager, i started taking guitar lessons. My guitar teacher approached music from a totally different angle than i'd ever seen before. suddenly theory not only made sense, but it came alive in my hands

now i don t play a note without knowing why (for the most part ). from one guitar player to another let me tell you something one guitar player to another. I-iv-v such a basic concept to the guitar that it is something every single guitar player needs to know (even the very tuning of the guitar is based on it).

it doesn t matter if you want to be a rock star, or if your highest goal with the guitar is merely to strum a few chords around a campfire with some friends.

rockstar or campfire jammer and everyone in between you simply have to understand i-iv-v. ok, so i don't know if the numbers are bang on or not but from personal experience i would say they are. And it is 100% true that the pro's communicate using the number system.

so what happened to the piano lady? remember i started telling you about my episode with the piano lady? well, i ended up quitting after three months. My parents weren't sure if i would ever like music again after that (good thing they were wrong ).

the thing is i don t want this to happen to you . Not as boring as watching the grass grow learning guitar can and should be one of the most fulfilling parts of your life mastering an art that allows you to express yourself is truly priceless.

there are many different guitar courses that can help you learn guitar but none of them (so far as i've seen and i've seen most of them by now) presents i-iv-v from the same perspective that you'll be seeing it here.

the perfect introductory lesson to the guitar unlocking i-iv-v is the perfect introductory theory lesson to get you started on the guitar, or to reveal the secrets of the fretboard that have thus far been hidden from you

unlocking i-iv-v is none of these things. but it will perfectly complement any course that does teach these things. if you were to hire a guitar teacher to sit down with you for 2 hours, and explain i-iv-v to you, it would cost you at minimum $120 . Then you'd leave, and if you had questions later on or forgot something, you'd have to come back and pay again.

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