A melody over a simple harmony. The first of several lessons of how to make chord melody arrangements.

At the request of several students, today we will be seeing a rhythmic lesson of Hard Rock!

The chords are Dm F Dm C G Dm, and I am adding some notes to the chords to make it sound more interesting. I hope this lesson will give you some cool ideas if you have a chord progression want to spice it up!

In this part we analyze the chorus and we can listen to the complete song.

Use of secondary 7th chord and modal exchange. The idea is to not think just in one key at the moment of the composition, but to keep an open mind.

Starting on the guitar can be difficult as you are learning the chords. This lesson should help you in that matter.

In this part of the workshop series we will learn what power chords are, and play them on the neck within the diatonic scale to get familiar with the shapes and positions.

In this lesson we will learn the simplest method for modulation.

You will find those simple melodies, but full of feelings. I want demonstrate that is not necessary be skilful with the guitar.