Music Basics

Circle of Fifths
This one design is the key to 'keys', 'keysignatures' and 'scales' your circle of fifths is like a clockface.

Reading, Rhythm and Rockin'
This page has tips on how to count, strum and pick what you hear or read.
Here is a page of excercises on the basic sixteenth note rhythms.

Intervals, Scales & Chord Spelling for Guitar
This is a fairly complete introductory lesson on how to build up guitar chords from scale tones.

Chord Formulae
Now that you understand how chords are built from scales, here's a list of formulae for the most used chords.

Online Lessons

I can teach a limited number of students via email
If you are an intermediate level student this will be a course of personalised tabs with tips on fingering, combined with 'midi' music files to play along with. To assess your progress we'll need to exchange up to three emails a week. Click Email for details if you're interested.

Midi and Band-in-a-box files

Backing tracks and melody parts for some tunes featured in the "Tabs Collection"
Along The Road To Gundagai roadtogundagai.MID
Waltzing Matilda matildaswing8.MID
Where The Dog Sits On The Tuckerbox wtdsits.MID

Advanced Soloing Midi and Band-in-a-box files

These are the blues exercises featured on the scale shapes pages
Blues Soloing Ex. #1 >>>>> blues_0.html
Blues Soloing Ex. #5 >>>>> blues_5.html
Blues Soloing Ex. #6 >>>>> blues_6.html