Welcome to Patrick Graven Guitar. I've built this website to share my understanding and insight about music and the guitar. I'm passionate about sharing my knowledge and helping other musicians to get the most out of their playing and understanding. It's important to me to help everyone that wants to learn to play the guitar and want to understand the theory behind the music. I will be sharing some knowledge on music theory with chords, scales, arpeggios and how they are linked with one another and going through on how the Circle of Fifths works.

 

I will share my own insight on different chords and my own understanding on the seven modes of music. I also want to say how important it is to make time for guitar practice and to get into a good routine of practicing, which is very important, you can only succeed the way you practice, so it's important to keep practicing each day if you can and to find what works best for you.

 

Music is the language of sound. Music theory is the study of the practices of music, it is the grammar that we use to communicate with notes. The words and sentences that we use in our languages are like notes, chords, scales and arpeggios in music, and when we arrange them together, we are having a musical conversation. The guitar is a very versatile instrument. It is one of the more basic instruments out there having just 6 strings, a fretboard and a body for the sound to be heard. Other instruments may be simpler but less versatile because of their size and their limited sound output. I think it comes down to the options presented by the format of the instrument.

 

The guitar is interesting and difficult to play, the left hand has to fret the string before the right hand strikes it and remains there until the note is no longer required, yet that format opens up the use of chord patterns allowing groupings in the left hand while the right hand strikes all the strings making it a rhythm instrument as well as a melodic one. The great thing about the guitar is its ability to translate different sounds and musical styles as you can almost play any style of music on it because of its unique versatility.

 

I've always loved music from a young age, I was always in love with music and had a passion for it. I grew up in the early 90's listening to everything. I love classical, jazz, rock and world music. The thing I love most about making music is the instant good feeling I get when creating something of my own, even just listening to music has the power to change my mood and that's a beautiful thing.

 

Music is life, the sound of feelings and I think it's important for anyone who has an instrument to get the most out of their instrument and get the most out of themselves by expressing themselves. That's why I love playing the guitar and being creative with it, everything about the guitar excites me. I own an Ibanez AZ242PBG electric guitar and I also play Native American Flute. Whatever instrument you have, I hope you are getting the best out of it and that it gets the best out of you. Wishing you peace and a good life filled with music.