5 Essential Guitar Lessons from Mike George

Here are 5 essential Guitar lessons from Mike George. I love the way he breaks down music into color and explains music theory in a way that is easy for even me to understand. Nearly everything he shares can also be applied to Ukulele, Piano and other musical instruments.  

Oh and if you like this kind of post you might also enjoy:

How To MEMORIZE Your Guitar FRETBOARD: The No-Nonsense Exercise That Actually Works (Via: MusicTheoryForGuitar)

Let's get to it: 

Basics // How to See Sound in 5 Steps

Mike George

In this video, I show you how to see sound using color ... to crack the code to music theory. If you'd like to see more videos like this, please LIKE and SUBSCRIBE. And if you know someone who needs to see this, be sure to SHARE it with them. I want to know what you think, so please COMMENT. ▶ LINKS 🎥 HOW TO COLORIZE THE GUITAR FRETBOARD: https://rumble.com/voqf5e-3-basics-ho... 🤼‍♂️ CONNECT 🗣 COMMUNITY: https://mikegeorge.locals.com/ RUMBLE: https://rumble.com/c/MikeGeorge TIKTOK: @mikegeorge360 SITE: https://mycolormusic.com/ EMAIL: mycolormusic[at]gmail[dot]com

The ONLY chords you NEED to know

Mike George

🔗 GET THE PDF HERE: https://mikegeorge.locals.com/post/29... To write great songs, you don’t need to know hundreds of chords. This video explains how which ones you need -- and how you can use them to start composing cool chord progressions right away. 🤼‍♂️ CONNECT 🗣 COMMUNITY: https://mikegeorge.locals.com/ RUMBLE: https://rumble.com/c/MikeGeorge TIKTOK: @mikegeorge360 SITE: https://mycolormusic.com/ EMAIL: mycolormusic[at]gmail[dot]com

The guitar fretboard MAP

Mike George

🔗 GET THE PDF HERE: https://mikegeorge.locals.com/post/29... To write great songs, you don’t need to know hundreds of chords. This video explains how which ones you need -- and how you can use them to start composing cool chord progressions right away. 🤼‍♂️ CONNECT 🗣 COMMUNITY: https://mikegeorge.locals.com/ RUMBLE: https://rumble.com/c/MikeGeorge TIKTOK: @mikegeorge360 SITE: https://mycolormusic.com/ EMAIL: mycolormusic[at]gmail[dot]com

The difference between Relative and Parallel modes

Mike George

In music, modes are important because they expand your songwriting palette. But what's the difference between Relative versus Parallel modes. There's a clear distinction -- and also a special connection between them based on the geometry of music. 🔗 RELATIVE VS. PARALLEL MODES PDF: https://mikegeorge.locals.com/post/27... 🤼‍♂️ CONNECT 🗣 COMMUNITY: https://mikegeorge.locals.com/ RUMBLE: https://rumble.com/c/MikeGeorge TIKTOK: @mikegeorge360 SITE: https://mycolormusic.com/ EMAIL: mycolormusic[at]gmail[dot]com

The Geometry of Music - and How to Use It

Mike George

Music is geometry. Here's a look at what that means, and how to use these patterns to make music. If you'd like to see more videos like this, please LIKE and SUBSCRIBE. And if you know someone who needs to see this, be sure to SHARE it with them. I want to know what you think, so please COMMENT. 🤼‍♂️ CONNECT 🗣 COMMUNITY: https://mikegeorge.locals.com/ RUMBLE: https://rumble.com/c/MikeGeorge TIKTOK: @mikegeorge360 SITE: https://mycolormusic.com/ EMAIL: mycolormusic[at]gmail[dot]com

How To MEMORIZE Your Guitar FRETBOARD: The No-Nonsense Exercise That Actually Works (Via: MusicTheoryForGuitar)

By far one of the best fret board learning hacks I've ever seen for learning the fret board! (And yes, I'm practicing this too). Check it out:

How To MEMORIZE Your Guitar FRETBOARD: The No-Nonsense Exercise That Actually Works

MusicTheoryForGuitar

Complete Chord Mastery course: https://www.musictheoryforguitar.com/... Master of the Modes course: https://www.musictheoryforguitar.com/... My first guitar teacher was positively great at destroying my motivation to practice. That was not an easy task. I was young and playing guitar was such a new thing for me and I was brimming with enthusiasm and I was putting together my first few simple songs... ... but every time he mentioned one specific thing... my spirits went underground, and I didn't even want to see my guitar. What was sinking my heart at the mere mention of it? What sapped my motivation more than anything else? This simple sentence: "You need to memorize all the notes on your fretboard!" "S-word that, I'd rather learn another song" I thought to myself every time. (But I never said it out loud. The guy was big and scary. He was also a hell of a player.) See, there are two things you need to know about me... 1. I have a horrible memory. It's like a seashore: every few seconds a wave hits and deletes everything. Or as my wife says: I have a Teflon brain. Nothing sticks to it ;-) So memorizing notes on the fretboard is precisely the 'worst case guitar scenario' for me. 2. I can be incredibly stubborn. (I-grew-my-beard-because-a-former-girlfriend-told-me-to-shave stubborn) So I spent year after years and years refusing to learn the notes. Just to make a point. I did not want my teacher to "win" that conversation! I'd find another way! I'd show him! So I put my time and energy into inventing all possible workarounds to not learn the notes of the fretboard... (most of these workarounds were frankly ridiculous) ... until I finally had to bite the bullet. Not knowing the notes was holding me back, hard. Now, I wish I could tell you that my teacher gave me some magic exercises or some transcendental wisdom to learn the fretboard in minutes... He didn't. So I had to find them out for myself. I spare you the long trial-end-error story and cut to the chase: - Learning the notes on the fretboard is one of the most useful things you can practice - With the right exercises, it's not even hard. Literally 5 minutes a day for a few weeks to learn them permanently. And when I say 'learn' I mean 'effortless recall'. You just know there they are without thinking, period. - If I had any kind of business sense I would have packaged these exercises in a nice and tidy "guitar fretboard for dummies" course and sold it to you. Instead, you are going to get them for free in this video. And you are going to like them! Note 1: This is not another "learn your notes in 3 minutes" or "that's the magic pattern that will help you learn the notes". There is no magic pattern - I know because I tried them all. My method may not be not as sexy as some of the videos out there that promise you eternal fame and fortune through note learning, but has one feature that beats all other methods to I've seen so far: it actually works. Note 2: Yes, I already had a video on my channel about learning the notes... but in the years I perfected the method. So this is the updated, expanded, "director's cut" version. If you like this video, share, like, comment & don't forget to subscribe for more content! Need help with music theory for guitar? Check out these FREE resources: https://www.musictheoryforguitar.com/... FOLLOW ME: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/musictheoryfo... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MusicTheoryF... Twitter: https://twitter.com/theoryguitar Website: http://musictheoryforguitar.com

Learn Your Guitar Fretboard Quickly- Guitar Lesson

A good lesson... Easy to understand and follow. Check it out:

How to learn your fretboard quickly.

 Guitar101Ramstein

Uploaded on Mar 17, 2011

A simple method to learn the guitar or bass Fretboard quickly.
pt two here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1op9e...

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Guitar Lesson - How to Memorize Note Names

 Doug Marks

Uploaded on Mar 8, 2011

http://www.metalmethod.com - 96% of all guitarists can't instantly identify note names on the fretboard. This free program changes all of that. This is a complete lesson to memorize the fretboard and instantly identify every note. You can download and print the study materials for this video here: http://www.metalmethod.com/notes-nl.htm This video features Metal Method instructor Doug Marks who has taught more than a million people to play guitar including some of today's top rock stars: http://www.metalmethod.com
If you're an absolute beginner the following will teach you the basics of guitar note names: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IohLi...

Download and Print the Free Guitar Note Name Diagrams
Download the five pages of diagrams for this lesson including fourteen guitar note name exercises and other study materials here. This lesson, YouTube video, and the study materials are free. Print note name lesson materials now: download.

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96% of all guitarists can't instantly recognize note names - can you? Take this test.This test takes less than five minutes to complete. It's the 2 notes to a string test explained in this video and in Exercise 1. Read about it on the Forum and record your results in our online survey. You can also see how you compare to others that have taken the test. Are you part of the 4% of all guitarists that can identify all note names without hesitation? Find out now: Take our test

Note Name Survey
Take the test and see how you comparet to other guitarists. Are you one of the 4% of all guitarists who have mastered note names or are you clueless? Find out now.

6 Tricks for Memorizing Note Names on Fretboard

 Jeremie Murfin

Published on Jun 5, 2011

Here are 6 tricks for memorizing the note names on guitar. Just some ideas I've used over the years that have worked well for me.