If you spot a mistake on this website or have suggestions on things you would like to see added here, I’d love to hear from you. Just leave a comment at the bottom of this page. All help to make this a great resource for guitarists will be appreciated.
I’m currently adding some more content and have lots of ideas but if you have something you would like to see, let me know and it will go on the to do list if it’s something I can do. Every now and then I will probably add some in depth guitar lessons and articles but the priority here is to keep things simple.
A quick easy lookup resource is the main theme of this website with more emphasis on the “get on with it” rather than too much of the “why” so I’d rather keep explanations short and to the point without too many details. You can read about my reasoning here.
Some of the ideas I have planned so far.
- Arpeggio diagrams
- Arpeggio exercises and workouts
- More scale diagrams, exotic scales etc.
- Scale exercises
- Finger warm-ups and speed exercises
- Fretboard workouts, chord tone exercises etc.
- Licks and riffs
This won’t all happen overnight but I’m working on it. 🙂
All of the diagrams on this website are created and checked for playability by myself. Nothing on here is computer generated which often results in scales and patterns, which although technically correct, aren’t actually playable without extra fingers! Because of this, I can make mistakes, I am human after all! Although I double-check everything, occasionally something might slip by me. Thanks to everyone who has spotted an error in the past and let me know. If you come across something that looks wrong or you aren’t sure about, please let me know in the comment section below, or drop me an email. All input is appreciated.
Thanks
Lee
Let me speak my mind: you have obtained you objective. I love this site, its an incredible tool immediately available to answer also most any direct. Thus aloows one to move on with a particular tasks at hand and avoid getting bogged down . i.e while working on major arpeggios, I wondered how to combine the relative minor: In about a instant it was on my screen ,a view of the relative minor. I mean right there on the computer screen. Your material is uncomplicated and so well organized I can’t help myseslf from shourting out. There is certainly a lot on the net these days but so little is practical and to the point.. I congradulate you for time and effort : Well done. Thank you for your effort and comittement to an elegent excellence. Keep it simple indeed.
Albert
Hey Albert. Thanks for the kind words! glad you’re finding it useful and thanks for the feedback, it will all help me keep things on the right track. So that’s a thumbs up for keeping things simple!
Lee
I have been using your site for the three months now and in that time I have greatly improved my skill and theory of music and guitar. Your site has helped take my playing to a new level. I recommend your site to everyone! Thank you for your all your hard work!
Will
Thanks for the comment Will and glad you are finding it useful.
Don’t forget guys and gals, if there’s anything you’d like to see here, let me know, all ideas are welcome! 🙂
Lee
Best guitar website on the net.
Diagrams are brilliant.
Categorize are well chosen & well organized.
Keep it up !
i would like to see a video to learn to play arpeggio
Awesome; thanks.
I love this site, thank you. I have been playing guitar for about 15 years and have only ever got as far as strumming a few chords, doing a bit of finger picking and I have only a vague understanding of scales.. I have recently got my act together and decided to become awesome… well, try!!! And I have found the information presented here in an easy to understand format, answering all of my questions with just the right amount of detail to enable me to understand where i’m going next. Thank you and keep posting. I’m looking forward to learning about arpeggios.. But for now I must get back to perfecting my new found skills! 🙂
wow, it so amazing theory sir….. it so useful to me and make me have best skill for play my guitar
thank you sir… for all your hard work…
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Hi this an awesome site for beginners like me by providing some theories and scale modes position tabs and etc,You sir helped us a lot thank you so much 🙂
Hi,
I would like to see arpeggios like Maj9, Dom7#11 where compound intervals are going to be there. Especially it will be great if you can show a two octave Arpeggio pattern for these chords.
Anand~
I, like everyone else really appreciate this site. I use it a lot and when it was down for a couple days this last week I was very worried that it might not come back.
I was hoping that you might spend a little time on substitutions. I haven’t looked into it much yet, but when I started this was the first place I looked. Unfortunately I’m not seeing anything.
Thanks,
Ken
The first time i came accross this site, i said yes! This is what av been looking for, believe it or not there arent good sites as good as this, its helping me alot even though i had no money.thanks alot
love this site, I use it everyday, its teaching me ALOT
Lee:
Your site has been very big help regarding the Arpeggio outline, intact for me it has bean the go to reference point for my guitar scales and arpeggios.
Please keep your site up and running.
Robert W
Hey Lee,how’s it going,stumble upon this while trying to find a D pentatonic major scale .I play advance beginner and assignment was to find the scale and learn it as best I can ,well let me tell ya .my instructor will be happy when income back next week,guess what I might pull ahead of him, I think I won’t mention this site .he will think iam cheating and the class will think iam a show off .thanks to this best website don’t stop Lee as Rhianna said ” don’t stop the music “he- he.”ha-ha
Thank you very much for the kind words. I’m hoping to revamp the site soon so stay tuned 🙂
Thank you for the teachings on your very well laid out site. Its full of simple language, easy to understand explanations and it breaks down guitar jargon extremely well for a beginner. Loads of empathy to the beginners questions and confusions!
This is a wonderful website. Thankyou!….Found your explanation of Chord Theory Excellent….Especially Your explanation of why the harmonic minor keys came about as it fundamentally explained something that nobody to date….and I’ve read and searched quite a bit, has done so e.g. why in some minor keys (e.g. A minor ) why does E major seem to resolve better back to A minor than E minor! Thanks to you Lee I now understand as it has bothered me for some time after I started reading up on Music Theory. Very Well Done!!… As for Arpeggios I tthink your suggested plan for them sounds great!….but could I also add maybe you might include also a section on how important it is as a powerful rhythm guitar technique as while I love great soloists like Eric Clapton et al as much as the next guy (or girl) I don’t think the importance of good rhythm guitar e.g Keith Richards, (sadly late now ) JJ Cale, or Johnny Mar, etc gets enough mention or emphasized enough on how important it is. …One only has to listen to these rhythm guitar geniuses to appreciate how effective and powerful it is….So a section on it’s importance in rhythm guitar playing would be fantastic Lee. Many Thanks Again…A music mystery has been solved for me by you! Best Regards Tony
Love the site, excellent work my dude.
Been slowly learning guitar by myself for about a year, and I frequently reference this site, especially for the chords in key.
Have you considered making a mobile app?
Thanks Wurm.
I have thought about it a few times but to be honest, I just don’t get the time. No doubt it will happen one day but no plans just yet.
Hi referenced this site from mobile and Kindle 9 months ago it was easy. Just saved link and up it pops. hope it helps. ( of course you need a browser I use Duckduckgo) being the least intrusive browser available compared to Google etc.
P.s. how/why do you keep the site running without any ads.
No complaints; ads kinda suck.
But, clearly you’ve put in a ton of work into the site. I also wouldn’t complain about the occasional non-intrusive banner ad or something.
I do have ads on this site. Are you using an Ad blocker perhaps?
I often worry I have too many as it is!
One thing you’ll definitely never see on here however is popups. I personally hate them so will never consider using them on this site.
Lee I use Ad blocker , but I think this is a great site. Extremely useful the interactive diagrams are terrific.
I’m taking Jazz guitar lessons and I use the arpeggios diagrams non stop.
Playing classic jazz I’ve been told I’m a fast learner, but I place a lot of this upon having easy to understand arpeggios to optimise fretboard movement and correct fingering of notes. It is a such a an easy reference guide and I appreciate the amount of groundwork put into it originally
I don’t mind making a donation say £20 for the use of site at all. Let me know if possible
Thanks very much Pete, I really appreciate the offer but no donation necessary.
I have a lot going on at the moment, trying to finish another book and also working on more diagrams and a free members area with jam tracks and exercises, so stay tuned.
I love this, I reference it all the time. Thanks a million.
Thank you Bob. I appreciate it.
Hi Lee Cant find the backing tracks to support Pentatonic Scale Fluency ???
Please advise
Hi Wayne.
You can download all of the exercise and backing tracks in a single zip file or the MP3s separately from here.
https://www.guitar-chords.org.uk/downloads/pentatonic-fluency.html
Hello Lee
I am having a problem with registering.
My name or address or password is not being accepted.
Hi Donald.
Sorry about that. I’m having problems with spam at the moment. Some things are currently out of action, that’s probably what’s causing it. I’ll hopefully have it solved by next weekend.
Thanks.
Hi, the site is great i have used it quite a bit in the last 3 years – thank you!
I noticed the Emin6 chords page has a C# as the 6th. Should this not be a C? The Natural minor and harmonic minor scales both have a C for the E scale..playing it with a C also sounds better to me.
Am i missing something?
Regards,
Louw
Thanks Louw, great to hear from you.
It can all be very confusing. I understand this stuff but it still gives me a headache at times. 🙂
C# is correct, I’ll try to explain why in short..
Think of everything as built from formulas relating to the major scale. First let’s look at the E major scale.
E, F#, G#, A, B, C#, D#,
Starting from E we number them from 1 to 7.
The formula for E natural minor scale is
1 2 b3 4 5 b6 b7
Therefore the G# becomes G; C# becomes C and D# becomes D.
We end up with E F# G A B C D
The formula for Harmonic minor is:
1 2 b3 4 5 b6 7
We end up with the same as natural minor but don’t flat the 7th
E F# G A B C D#
The formula for a minor 6 chord is
1 2 b3 6
This formula still relates to the major scale so we end up with
E G B C#
If we were to use the minor scale to construct our chord then the formula would just be 1 3 5 6. Bear in mind that the 6th in the minor scale is already flattened so we would need to raise it again.
This would just get even more confusing which is why we reference everything to the major scale, makes everything more consistent.
Hope that helps.
i have learned so much from this site. there cant be a handful of days in the past year or so that I havent pulled up and checked on something. thanks for your effort!!
Thanks Steve. Appreciate it.
What with the lockdown and all, there’s more on the way!
Hi All, just joined up. I have just recently started to write down on paper all the arpeggios for each key arount the circle of fifths. C,G,D,A etc. I am only writing them down at or near the 5th fret. Im up to E at the moment. Any way Id like to thank Lee for helping me when I have been getting stuck working out said arpeggios. I found this site when I was searching for help. It struck me as a very well thought out site, easy to navigate with lots of really useful diagrams etc. Thanks again I will most definitely be back using again.
John Scott
Thanks for the kind words John. Glad you are finding it useful.