This four step lesson delves into harmonic devices and how to arrange them on the guitar. Hopefully having fleshed out the basic melodic structure from the Christmas Harmonization Part 1, we are now going to furnish it with some structural components such as cadences, transposition and moving bass lines, which will help create an accompaniment.Read More…
This six step festive lesson utilises the melody of the Coventry Carol as a vehicle for learning the basics to harmonisation. This piece was originally part of a mystery play which was performed during the Coventry Guild Pageants in the 16th century. Generally it is sung accapella. Due to the period of its inception itRead More…
It doth seem Christmas is yet again upon us, so in order to counter balance the hand of Mammon and all the hustle and bustle of this period, we at #CGRocks would like to kick off the festive season with a Latin American Villanacio written by the great Paraguayan guitarist/composer Agustin Barrios. It is taken offRead More…
This lesson shows you how to stack thirds and create harmony on that old war horse – the major scale. A major scale is a series of notes with a very particular pattern of spaces, you only have to glance at the picture accompanying this post to see it clearly constructed with Lego bricks. TryRead More…