Here’s a simple soloing/harmonic thing you can use to ‘bring a little joy into your hum-drum lives‘. ;) Plus I show you how this leads…

Hey, Mike here.. In the last lesson I showed you how to use Delayed Resolutions to get a bit of the unexpected into your playing. This time I…

Hey, Mike here.. In this lesson I’m showing you how to use Delayed Resolutions to get a bit of the unexpected into your playing. Try this next time…

Hi, wanted to tell you about one of our courses at ElectricCampfire.com It’s called ‘Chord Tone Improvisation’, and it’s a video based course about musical…

In this lesson you’ll learn the fundamentals of how and where to use 7b9 chords. Say you’re playing a tune in a minor key. The…

Locrian Chords “What the hell else can I do with a Minor 7 flat 5 chord? Locrian Mode? Ok, that sounds weird, I’ll maybe stick…

Are you bored of using the same voicings/sounds every time you play a blues? Well here’s an easy way to explore some new sounds. Change…

Years ago, I wrote myself a little chord book to find some new chords. I wrote out all the possible combinations of 4 different notes…

A pedal point is a simple harmonic device which can add tension to your chord progressions and arrangements. Here are four examples: You can feature the pedal…

Here’s a polychord of E and Eb major that I’m particularly fond of. RE writing: I use a diagonal line to indicate a slash chord…

Think of your job as taking the audience on a little tour of the piece you’re playing. Point out interesting bits. Tell tall stories. You…

In the key of C major, the primary dominant is G7 Secondary dominants are dominant chords that resolve to all the other chords in the…

Three layers: Bass note Guide tones Colour tones. E.g., this G13 voicing: 3 X 3 4 5 5, or this one: X 10 9 10…

Here’s a simple method to understand how John Coltrane’s composition ‘Giant Steps’ is constructed. It’s basically a Yo-Yo of a chord progression; it goes down…

There are four locations for a diminished 7th chord within the Harmonic Minor and Harmonic Major Scales. If you treat the diminished 7th as a…

Tell me the best place you’ve heard a diminished chord * Anyway, one of my favourite tunes is ‘Beatriz’ by Chico Buarque, there are some…

Three part chords is what we have here. Part 1. The Bass Note It’s a C. Leave it to the bass player – they’ve trained…

Here are all the 7th chord inversions using these here voicings on strings 6432 for a II V I progression in G major. Learn it…

Here are the possibilities for different intervals in D Dorian on the D and G strings. Of course, if you have exceptionally long fingers, or…

Here’s a way of comping on a static modal vamp. The kind of thing that might be appropriate on a tune like ‘So What’ or…

George Van Eps wrote three books on manipulating chords called Harmonic Mechanisms for Guitar. It’s full of things to do with chords. Very full :)…

One way of looking at the diminished scale is to see it as two diminished chords arranged in various ways. If you stack them one…

Nice chord I took from Tchaikovsky’s String Quintet. It’s a bit of a stretch, and you have to fret a couple of notes with the…

Here are a couple of my favourite harmonic sounds from the Harmonic Minor. Combine these structures to get the flavour of the whole scale. To…

Share a favourite harmonic moment. I guess this could either be a chord change, or a bunch of chords. Or the sound of a chord,…

No Repeat Voicings – Another Mike Walker thing that he used to force me to do. He was quite a strict teacher. He used to…

Harmonic Cycles using the D Harmonic Minor scale. Try voice-leading, but today, why don’t you try to arpeggiate all these chords somehow? Maybe sweep-pick them…

Here’s the harmonised A Melodic Minor scale arranged in various cycles. The last three are the reverse of the first three, but you knew that…

Same chord progression as before: C-7 A-7 F#-7 Eb-7. But this time applied to the available triads within the Dorian mode. You could apply yesterday’s…

Same chord progression: C-7 A-7 F#-7 Eb-7, but this time you apply the Linear Connections idea to chord voicings. The idea is to make the…

Focus on the other player (s) It doesn’t matter how many chords you know. You focus on the other player. Some people like it when…

Here’s one way I like to use the diminished scale: Take plain sounds, simple sounds. The kind of sound that some heathen type might play….

Here’s some harmony from the diminished scale – triads and extended chords that exist within G diminished. In this particular key you have all the…