43 Music Theory Concepts For Composers

* indicates a topic specific to the guitar

1 Musical Alphabet 23 Combining Penatonic Shapes *

2 Music Staff 24 Arpeggios and Chord Tone Soloing
3 Knowing the Fretboard* 25 Inversions and Slash Chords
4 The Major Scale 26 Popular 7th Chords
5 Rhythm Basics 27 Diatonic Seventh Chords
6 Triplets, Swing, and Advanced Tuplets 28 12-Bar Blues Varia�ons + Minor Blues
7 Meter and Time Signature 29 Secondary Dominant Chords
8 Audia�on and Melody 30 Diminished Chords
9 Key Signatures and Enharmonics
31 Augmented Chords
10 Scale Degrees
32 Harmonic Minor
11 Triads
33 Wri�ng Melodies
12 Movable Chords *
34 Passing Tones and Chroma�cism
13 Diatonic Major Chords + Roman Numerals
35 Modes of Major
14 Wri�ng Progressions in Major
36 Transposi�ons and Modula�ons
15 Soloing with the Pentatonic Major Scale
37 Borrowing Chords from Minor
16 Suspended Chords
38 Song Sec�ons
17 The Minor Scale + Diatonic Chords
39 Song Structures
18 Wri�ng Progressions in Minor
40 Wri�ng Bass Lines
19 Soloing with the Pentatonic Minor Scale
20 Ear Training Intervals and Chords 41 Wri�ng Drum Parts
21 PowerChords * 42 Crea�ng full songs
22 Rela�ve Scales and Tonal Center 43 Advanced Theory Concepts