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With the guitar there are limitless ways we can go about practicing things like scales, chords, and arpeggios. Something I’ve found fun is to incorporate other music elements or concepts as a way to guide a practice session. One such method is by using the circle of fifths to provide structure to practicing arpeggios. Circle […]

One of the more challenging obstacles as a beginner guitarist, or if you’re just new to guitar theory, is figuring out how to determine the key of a song. Some songs stick to standard chords within a key, which makes this task much easier. Other songs, however, are not as straight forward.