Music Theory

Difficulty Level:
Great For All Levels!

Duration:
1 Video - 1 Hour 13 Minutes

What This Lesson Comes With:
1 Video Lesson, 3 Pages of Tablature with 119 Chords Tabbed Out, Other Useful Handouts including my "Chord, Key, Chord Tone Chart, and Useful Chords Diagram"

What This Lesson Covers:
This is my most comprehensive lesson about Chords for The Dobro®. I have written out (in Tablature), and teach you how to play 119 Chord For The Dobro®. All of these chords DO NOT USE SLANTS!!! They are great sounding, LUSH, easy to play chords that often times use Open Strings to give them a unique sound. I teach you not only all the Major Chords and Minor Chords, but also Major 7th, Minor 7th, Sus4, Add9, Add11, Add#11, Addb6, Dim7 Chords. All of which do not require slants. I teach you how to use open strings to make crazy chords, and how to take common shapes, but re-think what the Bass Note is so you can turn easy-everyday chord shapes into more complex chords!!!

This is a really great, useful lesson to improve your Chord Vocabulary for the Dobro®. I think you'll really enjoy it!!!

Have Fun! Thanks again,
~Troy~

Great beginners! Learn some of my thoughts on how to improvise! Close to 40 minutes of great instruction!

Difficulty Level:
Beginning - Intermediate

Duration:
Video #1 = 45 Minutes
Video #2 = 39 Minutes

What This Lesson Comes With:
2 Videos, Tablature, Key and Chord Tone Chart, How To Play By Ear Handout, 12 Mp3 Jam Tracks for Amazing Grace in All 12 Keys

What This Lesson Covers:
This is Volume #1 of a new series on the site called "How To Play By Ear". In this lesson I teach how to take 2 versions of a C Major Scale and find "Simple" melodies within that basic scale shape. By learning these "Scale Positions/Shapes" one is easily able to move the Grips or the Shapes around the neck in order to play melodies in different keys. In this lesson (Video #1) I teach you the Major Scale Shapes and how I take basic simple melodies and show you how they fit within the scale shape and how you can easily harmonize the melody. In Video #2 we work with the tune Amazing Grace. I show you how it fits within the scale shape, how to harmonize, and how to play it in any key. This lesson also comes with Tablature, Handouts, and 12 Mp3 Tracks for playing along with "Amazing Grace" (1 For Every Key!!!)

This lesson is great to help you Understand the Fretboard and give you a better understanding of useful music theory!

This is a really fun and useful lesson that I hope you really enjoy and get a lot out of!

Thanks! Have Fun,
~Troy~

Difficulty Level:
Beginning - Intermediate

Duration:
Video #1 - (Main Teaching) - 54 Minutes
Video #2 - (Playing To The Jam Tracks) - 16 Minutes

What This Lesson Comes With:
2 Videos, Tablature, Key of C Diagram, and 2 Mp3 Jam Tracks

What This Lesson Covers:
This is Volume 2 of my "How To Play By Ear Series". In this lesson we follow up with what we learned in Volume 1, and we are learning how to find all the "Chord Tones" or Arpeggios of each Chord in the Key of C in Closed Position (No Open Strings). By doing this and adding what you learned in Volume #1 (The Major Scale in 2 Versions), you will have a really good understanding of the fretboard in closed position. This should allow you the ability to now know Scales and Arpeggios in a great Movable Closed Position. So when you are playing by ear you now will have lots of tools at your disposal to really find those notes, melodies, or licks your are looking for, in a great movable shape.

Difficulty Level:
Intermediate

Duration:
1 Hour 36 Minutes

What This Lesson Comes With:
1 Lesson Video, 28 Mp3 Jam Tracks (One for each of the 28 Chord Progressions!), Tablature, Chord Charts, and Lesson Handout

What This Lesson Covers:
This is Volume #3 of the series "How To Play By Ear". In this lesson we will be covering "How to Hear & Play Over Different Chord Progressions". We are in the Key of C, but everything covered in this lesson can be moved around to other Keys as well. I go over a Huge Amount Of Chord Progressions, 28 Total!!! Each chord progression comes with an Mp3 Jam track so you can hear what it sounds like, and practice either playing the chords, or improvising over the progression. I also go over playing chord tones on your first string, and how to navigate your way through the chord changes by playing on 1 string, playing in moved block positions, playing what you learned in the previous 2 lessons, using scales or arpeggios.

It's really important to be able to hear and understand a variety of chord progressions, and I think you'll find the lesson plus all the included 28 JAM TRACKS a real useful tool in further improving your ear!!!

Have Fun! Thanks Again!
~Troy~

Finally Learn All Your Key Signatures! OVER 20 MINUTES OF INSTRUCTION!!!

1. Learn Tricks To Help You Memorize All of Your Key Names and Notes Are Either Sharped or Flatted.
2. Each Lesson Explained with Video Diagrams!
3. Explained Slowly and In Detail!

Difficulty Level:
Beginning - Intermediate

Duration:
Over 1 Hour

What This Lesson Comes With:
1 Hour Long Video, Tablature, Chord Diagrams, Theory Handout, Minor 12 Bar Blues Chord Chart, 3 Great Minor Chord Backing Tracks

What This Lesson Covers:
Minor Songs Have Such a Great Sound!!
In this lesson I teach you what Minor Chords and Scales are, how they are different than Major Scales, and how they are made. I show different versions of Minor Chord Shapes for GBDGBD tuned Resonator Guitar. I also cover various Minor Scales. (Natural Minor, Harmonic Minor, Minor Pentatonic, and the Blues Scale) I start off with the very basics of how you can take any Major Scale and just by adjusting a few notes you can get several different types of Minor Scales. I also include 3 Great Backing Tracks that you can practice your Minor Chords to, and also play your Minor Scales along to and work on your timing and playing in tune.

Difficulty Level:
Beginning - Intermediate

Duration:
Video #1 - How To Make Scales = 17:58
Video #2 - How To Make Chords = 39:12
Video #3 - How To Think and Hear Numbers = 12:36
Video #4 - Things To Practice and Memorize = 11:41

What This Video Comes With:
4 Videos & 3 Handouts (Music Theory 01 Handout, The Key of G Diagram, Key and Chord Chart.

What This Lesson Covers:
This is Volume #1 of a New Lesson Series on my site called, "Music Theory Essentials".  In this volume I go over my Music Theory Handout that I made.  To make the lesson more "User-Friendly" I break the lesson up into 4 smaller Video Tutorials.

In Video #1 "How To Make Scales" we are working in the Key of G and I teach you the foundation of where scales come from and how to take a Major Scale and, from it, make a Minor Scale, a Major Pentatonic, a Minor Pentatonic, and a Blues Scale.

In Video #2 "How To Make Chords" I go over how to take a Major Scale and create tons of chords from it including, Major, Minor, Diminished, Augmented, 6 chords, 6/9 chords, Sus4 and Sus2 chords, Major 7th, Minor 7th, Minor 7th Flat 5 Chords....etc.

In Video #3 - "How To Think and Hear Numbers" I go over how to think of Chords and Scales in terms of Numbers, that allows you to more easily play in other keys.

Finally, in Video #4 - "What To Memorize & Practice", I go over some of the essential things about music theory and your instrument that you should start trying to Memorize and Practice.

This lesson is great one to get your feet wet into understanding some of the Fundamentals of Music Theory, which will add to your overall knowledge and understanding of Music in general.

Thanks! Enjoy this lesson!

~Troy~

Great for beginners wanting to learn chords and rhythm on the Dobro®!

Over Half and Hour of Instruction, Fretboard Theory, Major Chords, Minor Chords, Dominant 7th Chords, Maj 6 Chords, Sus Chords, Rhythm Chops, Bluesy Chords and Licks, explained slowly and in detail.

What you will get with this video:

1. HUGE VIDEO LESSON FOR DOBRO!!!
2. OVER 56 MINUTES OF VIDEO INSTRUCTION!!!!
3. FULL 3 PAGE TABLATURE TRANSCRIPTION OF THE LICKS
4. LEARN G MINOR PENTATONIC/ BLUES SCALES AND LICKS
5. D MINOR PENTATONIC
6. E MINOR PENTATONIC
7. B MINOR PENTATONIC/ BLUES SCALE
8. GREAT HAMMER ON/ PULL OFF LICKS

Over a 29 Minute Video Lesson of the Closed Position Chords, Foward Slant Chords, Reverse Slant Chords, Straight Bar Chords, Major, Minor, Dom. 7, Major 7, Minor 7, Come with TABLATURE, Each chords explained in detail