The Infinite Guitar

VOODOO SCIENCE by Chris Juergensen

http://theinfiniteguitar.blogspot.com/2023/02/new-single-voodoo-science.html

 I've been meaning to do this for a long time. Becoming a patron will allow you access to PDFs for many of my YouTube videos, new video content, backing tracks to practice to and for those of ...

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I don't usually post about anything but guitar stuff on this blog but forgive me if I do post about a big change in my life. I've officially left my position as the Director of Education at Tok...

http://theinfiniteguitar.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-collective-school-of-music.html

Q: Hi Chris, I am having a really hard time remembering chords. I just got into college and am playing in the Jazz orchestra. I have never really played too much Jazz and I can't come up with t...

http://theinfiniteguitar.blogspot.com/2015/09/chord-shapes-getting-most-bang-for-your.html

Q: Hey Chris, Aside from the major scale, melodic minor, harmonic minor, and harmonic major - are you aware of any scales that can be harmonized into interesting modes of unique flavor? I imag...

http://theinfiniteguitar.blogspot.com/2015/03/crazy-scales-and-chords.html

Q: Hey Chris, thanks for all the great content on both your blog and your site . I’m also going to get both your books as well. I have a question: I’ve been listening to and trying to play...

http://theinfiniteguitar.blogspot.com/2015/03/6-chords-explained.html

Q: I've come to realize that playing a good solo isn't really so much about technique but a bunch of other factors. I just haven't figured it out exactly. I've been working on scales and arpeggio...

http://theinfiniteguitar.blogspot.com/2014/12/soloing-like-pro.html

Q: Hey Chris, What's your opinion about the importance of singing as well as playing? I know besides playing guitar, you sing too. Did you start singing when you started paying guitar or did tha...

http://theinfiniteguitar.blogspot.com/2014/11/guitar-and-singing.html

Q: I was wondering about scale patterns. Looking through your chrisjuergensen.com lessons, I notice that the major scale patterns that you use are unlike the ones that my teacher showed me. He ...

http://theinfiniteguitar.blogspot.com/2014/08/scale-patterns.html

Dear Chris: downloaded your book today and I'm really enjoying it. The way you explain where the altered chords come from scale wise, I feel is really going to open a lot of doors for me. So t...

http://theinfiniteguitar.blogspot.com/2013/04/dominant-11-vs-9sus4-chords.html

Q: I just went over your minor pentatonic lesson , and never have I seen anyone explain chord/scale theory in such a straight forward no BS manner. I am an advanced intermediate level guitarist, ...

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Q: One of my biggest songwriting problems is when I have a song in my head, and I'm figuring it out on guitar, and I tend to get a few chords into it and inevitably, it seems, there is an "el...

http://theinfiniteguitar.blogspot.com/2013/02/finding-right-chord.html

Q: I know you love Marshalls, and I am looking at building a JTM45 head from parts. There is so much to love about Marshalls BUT they are SO loud - and that's the 45, forget the 50s and 100 s...

http://theinfiniteguitar.blogspot.com/2012/11/amps-and-other-things.html

Q: Like your style.  I need some review of scales to play with regards to how the Dominant Seventh Chord is resolving...functioning as a V chord or just a secondary Dominant (which I would play ...

http://theinfiniteguitar.blogspot.com/2012/11/playing-over-dominant-chords.html

  Q: I was just watching the video of you doing the minor blues for the Australian movie soundtrack. I have a few questions about it. I can tell it's a minor blues but what is that chord that ...

http://theinfiniteguitar.blogspot.com/2012/11/more-on-minor-blues.html

Q: Great dorian lesson , thanks. But when we see a DMIN7 on a chart while jamming, and thinking whether we should play a pentatonic a mode or whatever, isn't that decision should be strictly ...

http://theinfiniteguitar.blogspot.com/2012/08/more-on-modes.html

Q: I've been working on "Footprints" lately. How can I solo over the changes? I sound pretty boring. Do you have any suggestions? I know it is just a minor blues for the most part but I sound la...

http://theinfiniteguitar.blogspot.com/2012/04/footprints.html

Q: Been trying to learn a lot more of the Stevie Ray Vaughan blues style. Kind of plateaued. What would you recommend I do to be able to improvise like SRV and all of the Blues greats?? A: Fi...

http://theinfiniteguitar.blogspot.com/2012/02/getting-blues-together.html

Q: I'm enjoying your Infinite Guitar book very much lately but I'm wondering why you dedicate so much time to Melodic Minor and not so much to Harmonic Minor. Why is Melodic Minor more impor...

http://theinfiniteguitar.blogspot.com/2012/01/melodic-or-harmonic-minor.html

Q: The way you use pentatonic scales fascinates me. Not only does it sound cool, it is easy since most of us already know the patterns. In your book and on your site lesson: superimposing pent...

http://theinfiniteguitar.blogspot.com/2011/11/pentatonic-scales.html

Q: WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO PREPARE FOR SESSION WORK? HOW DID YOU PUT YOUR SELF IN A POSITION THAT YOU COULD GO INTO THE STUDIO AND PUT THE PERFECT PART TO A SONG THAT YOU HAD NEVER HEARD BEFORE?...

http://theinfiniteguitar.blogspot.com/2011/10/recording-sessions.html

Q: Hey Chris, I’ve been working through some of the exercises in your book (specifically harmonizing the Major scale) and wondered about the standard Blues progression. People will often say ...

http://theinfiniteguitar.blogspot.com/2011/07/quick-question-about-blues.html

It took about a year and a half but its finally done. I've started publishing a companion series for THE INFINITE GUITAR. As IG was, for the most part, a big fat theory book for the guitar, I f...

http://theinfiniteguitar.blogspot.com/2011/06/infinite-guitar-companion-volume-1.html

Q: I'll Start off by saying that I'm really digging the Prospects album. Anyhow, lately I've been getting really interested in the art of composing music and writing songs. Is it necessary to h...

http://theinfiniteguitar.blogspot.com/2011/06/writing-music-art-or-science.html

Q: I was listening to you play on the YouTube video, the one of recording a Blues in a recording studio. How do you get that sound? I want it for myself. Are you using some sort of overdrive or s...

http://theinfiniteguitar.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-do-you-get-that-tone.html