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Your Weekly Music Lesson #2 ‘Chords’ !

Submitted by Walt on Thursday, 2 October 200813 Comments

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OK so here it is! Last week we learned the notes, this week we start building Chords A, D, and E in order to write Songs! Rip out that instrument, turn up the volume, skip dinner, and GET READY! It all starts here. Any music questions let me know!
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If your still confused then you can always check out the Video Lesson Archive – your question is probably answered there! if not, then let me know

The 3 chords that I discuss are the A Chord, D Chord, and E Chord. I also explain the Notes in Music and how their built up. As a result I pull out my Saxophone! What I try to explain to people is that Learning one instrument is like learning them all. tey all follow the same language, and rules. Obviously, the playing technique for them is differen, but all in all, it the same language.

So watch this and also at the 10 minute mark is a huge shout section that we all give. Using the power of Ustream.TV and Twitter I called my community over and recorded everyone at my Ustream.TV Music Show

This is my new show hosted on Revision3 Beta. Big ups to all the peeps who submitted the show to Digg. I now have the YOU Section all set up. So all the pictures, videos, and poems you send me I post there.

Also, here’s the link to the actual Viddler page with my video.

Thanks guys for everything.. week 3 is gonna RAWK!

13 Comments »

ropiko said:

Enjoy Every Second! and remember! Peace! Love! & Harmony! (*Awesome*)

- 2 October 2008 at 3:23 pm

Your Weekly Music Lesson #3 'How to Read Music' on Revision3 Beta | Walt Ribeiro >> Internet's Music Teacher said:

[...] 3! This is all about ‘How to Read Music‘ We learned Chords last week, but since it takes a few weeks to get those chords down, I thought it’d be good to work on [...]

- 10 October 2008 at 1:23 pm

Your Weekly Music Lesson #4 'Tempo' on Revision3 Beta | Walt Ribeiro >> Internet's Music Teacher said:

[...] about ‘Tempos‘ in music. The tempo is designated by Beats Per Minute (BPM). We learned Chords a few weeks ago, as well as the notes on guitar, and now we’re tackling Tempo. In music you [...]

- 17 October 2008 at 7:30 am

Your Weekly Music Lesson 5 ‘Time Signatures’ on Revision3 Beta | Walt Ribeiro >> Internet's Music Teacher said:

[...] Signatures are not related, but the two do go hand in hand. People get this confused. We learned Chords a few weeks ago, as well as the notes on guitar, and now we’re tackling Time Signatures. Any [...]

- 23 October 2008 at 10:23 am

Scott Schnaars said:

3 chords and the truth. Basis of all great music.

- 16 December 2008 at 8:39 pm

Lisa said:

Hi Walt,

First off…you ROCK! Thanks so much for taking all the time to help the rest of us to learn music!

Regarding your tutuorial on guitar tabs, I learned it a different way. I learned that on the tabs the numbers refer to what FRET you are supposed to put a finger on, not what finger you are supposed to use. For instance if there is a #3 on the B string that means you are supposed to hold down that string on fret #3. Some of the songs I have tabs for the numbers go up to 8, 10, or even 14 in some instances because those are the frets in which I am supposed to hold a certain string down.

Any comments as to why your version of reading tabs is different?

Thanks!!!
Lisa

- 14 March 2009 at 3:03 pm

Walt said:

OK, well reading Chord Diagrams and Reading TABS are two completely different things

TABS = http://waltribeiro.net/2008/07/13/how-to-read-tabs/

CHORD DIAGRAMS = http://waltribeiro.net/2008/07/13/how-to-read-guitar-chord-diagrams-aka-tabs/

- 14 March 2009 at 3:09 pm

Julian said:

In just two lessons you have Tought me SO MUCH! YOU ROCK MAN

- 3 April 2009 at 10:41 am

Lepchin said:

Thank you so much man! I bought myself a squier guitar a few days back and I looked online for some lessons. And came across some pretty bad ones. But thankfully I came across you and things are making a TON more sense.

For example, the lesson that I was taking on the other site didn’t really explain things that well and I thought you had to play the D chord on the Top strings E,A,and D. It was the same diagram you have too, so I was trying to reach for the top string with my ring finger and it kept muting A.

Now I look back on that and just laugh. Thanks again!

- 20 April 2009 at 9:04 pm

Soc said:

Yeah, maybe you should label this as “guitar lessons” or something. Yeah yeah I know music is universal, but still… Not much to get from this one for us sitting in front of a keyboard

I love your effort though!

- 28 April 2009 at 4:02 am

Shannon said:

First and most importantly I’d like to let you know that you are inspiring me!! Also looking for an affirmation. I play guitar left handed so I’m assuming your lesson still applies but the notes are backwards??

- 27 May 2009 at 10:17 pm

Walt (author) said:

Nope. It should be the same.

- 28 May 2009 at 4:50 am

Ray said: