Todd Ferris Mosby - Indian/Jazz Guitar Virtuoso: Ensembles & Clinics

Clinic - Guitar Fundamentals

Natural Notes & Power Chords Workshop Book Now

The beauty of a horizontal approach to guitar is explored. This workshop is designed to teach beginning, intermediate and advanced students the difficult task of mapping all natural notes on the fingerboard quickly and easily and how to apply this to improvisation, figuring out chord progressions and the harmonization and performance of simple melodies.

Course Outline

A) Learn All Natural notes on all 6 strings to the 12th fret and beyond

a. Musical Alphabet i. Every starting point ii. Location of ½ steps
b. Apply to each of the 6 strings horizontally
c. Ascending/Descending Exercise

B) Power chords – Explained

a. Root on 6th string
b. Root on 5th string

C) Chord Exercise

a. Ascending Natural Scale i. Root on 6th string ii. Root on 5th string
b. Ascending chromatically
c. Ascending whole step
d. Ascending minor 3rd
e. Cycle 5 i. Natural Scale ii. All 12 keys

D) Applied Music

a. How to learn a tune rapidly using Power chords
b. Recognizing Common chord Patterns
c. Chords underneath the power chords i. Barre chords-1st finger only ii. Major, Minor iii. Pentatonic Scale