When I was learning classical guitar as a young lad my teacher would occasionally smile at me devilishly and say “today we’re going to learn some THEORY! I guess I was supposed to be dumbstruck with awe at the prospect of being ushered into the lofty realm of Musical Wisdom, unfortunately the effect was rather more anesthetizing. THEORY felt like something that was distantly related to guitar playing at best. The presentation focused mainly on wrote memorization of painfully boring historical minutiae and arcane musical terms. In a word, brutal.

Some time later I had the privilege to attend GIT in Hollywood. The school had recently opened and it took a truly unique approach to guitar learning . Beyond the fact that the teachers and players I met there were (are) truly amazing, they built a musical framework that connected all of the musical dots for me. For the first time in my musical life I “got it”. Music theory wasn’t hard at all and I discovered that it was an integral part of playing, not some bizarre after-thought concocted by short people with big glasses in musty office somewhere.

If you’d like to learn more about guitar theoary the Easy Way. Stick around. We’ve got some things in the works that will really be helpful as you work to sort it all out.

The Guitar Matrix™ Team.