Buddhist Schools The Theravada. The word theravada means Way of the Elders. The Theravada school is the only one of the early Buddhist schools that has survived. Today, it is the dominant religious tradition

The Dharma Buddha preached that existence was a continuing cycle of death and rebirth. Each person's position and well-being in life was determined by his or her behavior in previous lives. For example,

Buddhism Buddhism developed in India during the late 500's B.C. Buddha probably was born sometime during the 500's or 400's B.C. in southern Nepal. His real name was Siddhartha Gautama. According to later

The next chord we’ll learn is the A Minor 7. The seventh note being played in this chord is the same as the seventh note in the A Major 7, that is the open third string between your first and third fingers

We have now learned all the usual Major seventh chords but, as you might have guessed, there are Minor versions of these seventh chords as well. We’ll start with the E Minor 7. Look at the image below.

In the last lesson, we learned how to effectively use those seventh chords in the typical “one, four, five” chord progression. If you followed along to the end, you eventually played a pretty bluesy little

In this lesson we’ll be talking about the “one, four, five” chord progression. This chord progression is THE SONG. How can you say that one chord progression is THE SONG compared to so many other options.

The guitar may have made it’s home with the E but the A is most certainly it’s mistress. In blues playing, the A is one of the most common keys to play in. There are probably many reasons for this. It

As was mentioned before, the guitar loves itself an E chord. This next seven chord is the E7 and it is as enjoyable to play as the other two iterations you have learned. It is exactly the same finger position

We just learned the C7 chord. If you havn’t already noticed, there are two instances when going from A to G that are in increments of a half step instead of a whole step. A half step up from E is F and

This next seven chord is quite useful as it can be moved up and down the neck like the F7 chord. The way I like to look at it is that the C7 position sits on top of the chord that is being played in the

The next seven chord we’ll learn is the G7 chord. Notice that the only difference between the G major and G7 is that the note on the first string is one step down. However, the finger positions are quite

The next Seven Chord we’ll be learning is the D Major Seven Chord or “D7”. This chord is crucial in blues playing, as will be illustrated later. Make sure you play only the D string (4th string) up, muting

Now that we have learned the Major and Minor chords as well as chords we can move up and down the neck of the guitar, it is time to learn about “seven chords”. No, I do not mean there are seven more chords

ARPEGGIO ar·peg·gi·o /ärˈpejēˌō/ noun the notes of a chord played in succession, either ascending or descending. In the last lesson, we went over some exercises for your right hand. In this lesson, we’ll

Now that you have learned all the major and minor chords on your left hand, it’s time to put some effort into strengthening your right hand movement. There are two common ways to play the guitar, in regards

You might say I saved the best for last. The E Minor chord is very easy to play. This chord is so epic sounding that I encourage you to give it the old Pete Townsend / Angus Young heavy downstroke as soon

There are only two more minor chords left to learn and, in actuality, you could get away with just playing the F and B fingering to get to any chord by moving up the neck of the guitar. However, it is

The D minor chord, at first glance, is simply the same as the D Major chord with the note on the first string moved down a half step. However, notice that the finger position for the D minor is quite

Just as was mentioned in the previous lesson, there are likely more complicated ways of playing the G Minor chord. However, moving the F Minor chord up a whole step (to the third fret), since you already