Tommy Bolan - Demonstrates the Guitar Wheel

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Hi, this is Tommy Bowen of the band MYC and I’m here to give you a quick start on the Guitar Wheel. This is being plain New York English, I’m going to give you a couple of quick points to dive in to this, so you can get start on this.

Essentially what you got here, the two ounce reference library all about Music Theory, got the guitar side on one side, and the music theory side on the other. Essentially, this is a great device, and you might have see me in guitar magazine after this and also I was just recently additional instructor at George Wood Teaching Dojo which I used this as the reference guide with the students and it was a really big hit.

In addition, I contribute a lesson to the book coming out which teaches excerpts on my DVD Metal Primer. Now let’s get start on this, like any fast paced New Yorker, you want as quick as it got the answers right there. What you have here on the guitar side is essentially a curve guitar neck.

Now if you look here, you can see all the strings here are numbered right through. Now if we put the select here and put G in the master key window, we can see essentially the dots here that is now the G Major Scale.

Green is Major, Red is minor, and the Diminished is Orange, and you can see here the grids on the side where now in the Diatonic Triad section. So basically you can see the entire G Major Scale popped out right there, and you can actually create new scales, and these are all bar chords. Now, you have all the access to the bar chords you need.

Now to come over to this side, on the same side the guitar wheel keep it in G. We now have the Tonic chord inversion chart, which shows you all the positions to play G at. So over here, the 7th fret, we can now see this is a 2nd position with the G over here actually on the 8th fret, with the G is in the white window.

Over here, a Gb on the 12th fret, we can now see that with next to the blue, which we scrolled down here, that shows at a root position, and then G as well here over on the 3rd fret would be the yellow that is a 1st inversion.

Now the Guitar Wheel is the essentially, you know, all the answers are right here. The wheel essential reinforces itself, the more you looked at it, the more will pop out, don’t try to dive in all at once, essentially this is what I’m giving you right here on the quick start.

Now, if you look here on the same side, we have the Major chord, Green, which shows you the root 3rd and 5th and explains the breakdown there, and right next was the minor chord which shows you the breakdown there, root 3rd and 5th with are B, D, and F#.

And over here D, F# and A Diminishing in the Orange, and this is essentially will get you rolling to understand the breakdown of Major chords, minor chords, might be stuff that you already know. May you want to find tune in a couple of things or just want to even learn more and just basically take Theory to the next level. This can do it.

Okay, so we just finished with the Guitar Wheel side. Now, we’ll flipped it over. We have the Music Theory or what we call the Piano side. Now, let’s take the guitar selector right here, we’ll slide that into the key of F, which appears now in the master key window. So, essentially, you now earn the key of F right there.

Now, if we move over to the Major Tonic chords section, we can now see the breakdown by putting F the bold letter inside this window here.

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F is the Major key you now, at the F Major Scale across here

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And now, you have instant reference to the road of minor key which would be D, and the corresponding stop there. And the great part here, you can instantly see the minor Pentatonic Scale and the Major Pentatonic scale and it gives you formulas and shows all the breakdowns.

So a lot of times, you want it transposed right on the spot. So the look over here this side above the master key, we see F is in the major window, and there is the F Major Scale. As you want to transposed across let us say key as Bb there’s all the corresponding notes right there,
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Where the key at Eb, or you want to move the selector here to the key of Gb, you now have all the corresponding transpositions as well which can make for jamming a lot more easier.

Now, this side also is a lot of bonus teachers which you know to a lot of people would be a great advantage. For example, you have the Piano staff, so if you’re reading music or try to dissect music, now you know all the note right there. You have the Major cleft, and you have the other Bass cleft, the G cleft and the Bass cleft.

You have the Piano Keyboard which essentially shows you formulas in the keyboard as well. The Anharmonic Equipment Table, which essentially is the same note with two different names, which are that’s a great thing to have here, especially as you go through the wheel and you’re using that a quick reference.

So you have that there and also the Circle of 5th. The Circle of 4th going in the other direction and essentially you have a world of answers right here.

In closing, I just want to say something here about the Guitar Wheel pretty much, this is an insane device but in the best way. Essentially, the rubies cube designed from the inside out.

Now, you might have read the quote, the applied possible result is genius and anything else brought an idea is gold. This does that it fits in my guitar keys. I want to tell you, enjoy more and more with the Guitar Wheel, this is Tommy Bowen signing out.

If you get a chance, check out my DVD Metal Primer available at all Major music stores and livetojam.com.


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