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Chords and the Mathematical Fretboard - Exploring Guitar Music Theory

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This course uses the 12-tone chromatic scale to explain guitar fretboard navigation and chord locations, focusing on triads and tetrads. It also introduces a more translation-invariant way to describe musical relationships on the guitar.

Syllabus

Introduction
Basic structure of a guitar and the fretboard
From one string to the next
Definition of a chord
Chords with three notes: Triads
Chords with four notes: Tetrads
Types of triads
Finding triads on the fretboard

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