Lessons for Your Playing
Explore guitar theory lessons for understanding chords, building scales, reading the fretboard, and applying musical ideas to your playing.
Lessons for Your Playing
Build practical music theory skills and connect them to the guitar, one clear lesson at a time.
Chords and Harmony
Explore how major, minor, and other common chords are built from notes and intervals. Learn how chords relate within a key, why certain progressions feel resolved, and how to apply these ideas to songs you play. Lessons can help you move beyond memorized shapes and make more informed choices when practicing or writing.
Scales and Fretboard
Learn to recognize notes across the fretboard and connect scale shapes to musical ideas. Study how scales relate to keys, melodies, and chords, then apply that knowledge through focused guitar exercises. These lessons are suited to players who want a clearer map of the neck and a stronger foundation for improvising or learning songs.
Rhythm and Reading
Work with note values, rests, time signatures, and rhythmic patterns that appear in guitar music. Lessons can introduce or reinforce standard notation and help you understand how written rhythms connect to what you play. Use practical exercises to improve timing, read more confidently, and make sense of unfamiliar musical parts.
Songwriting and Analysis
Look closely at the chords, melodies, and structures behind songs you enjoy. Learn how theory can support songwriting, arrangement, and improvisation without limiting your creativity. Apply concepts to your own guitar ideas, identify patterns in familiar music, and develop a more intentional approach to composing or adapting songs.
Make theory work on guitar
Share what you want to learn, and find a practical starting point for your guitar theory lessons in Ottawa.