Jimi Hendrix, David Gilmour and Slash are just three of the countless fans of this staple minor mode. Here, Stuart Ryan takes you through the structure of the scale, plus a handful of chords, riffs an ...

1. Notes The raw material of music, notes are the building blocks from which all chords and melodies are created. Each note ...

Used by countless blues guitarists and hard rockers from B.B. King and Guns N' Roses to Josh Smith and Joe Bonamassa, the Mixolydian mode is essential knowledge. Stuart Ryan explains all ...

Harmonic minors use the relative major key signature and raise the seventh note of the scale. For example, in A harmonic minor there are no sharps or flats other than the raised seventh of G#.

We have to revisit our basic musical scale, and for the moment we'll stick ... You can use the process, of selecting the 1st (root), 3rd, and 5th degree of either a major or minor scale, to construct ...