Uncle Tim's eGuitarCenter - Technical Training For Guitar

If you want to play Chords, Flash Exercises will Help You Use as a progression


Scales Are Only The Beginning

Scales will jump start your technical abilities and help you build up hand strength for sure. But playing beautiful songs involves more than just that. Chords along with single note lines will flush out your playing and help you create incredibly emotional songs. They must be incorporated into your daily strategy so this very important area of development occurs. Not everyone is smart enough to understand scales with provide huge benefits, but every guitarist knows to at least learn a few chords. But what do you do with them when you memorize a few?

Playing scales will make sure your hands get a workout every day and then you can focus your accurate and powerful hands on playing chords and crafting beautiful songs. Lead guitar is one half of guitar, rhythm is the other half. Rhythm can involve finger picking, strumming, flat picking and other ways of holding down a rhythm line or a progression of chords.

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If you are going to play inside them every second of your guitar playing life, shouldn't you practice this way?

Yes! You should!

So with Uncle Tim, you will know what you are playing every second. You will become competent! You will lose the feeling of being lost all the time.

With Uncle Tim's Flash Chords you will play through some of the standard progressions in each key. If someone asks you to play a I-VI-II-V-I (1-6-2-5-1) progression, you will know not only what he means but you will be able to play it in whatever key you happen to be working in.

Chords are almost never played by themselves, instead you play a progression of chords in order to achieve some sort of movement and create some sort of mood. This tool will help you develop these abilities. But better yet, when you hear songs on the radio or your mp3 player, you will begin to recognize the progressions. This will greatly help with developing your ear of music and your ability to pick up these progressions or create your own. below you will find the exercises for the Key of C Major.

 

Flash Chords