Jesse's Song Making Machine For Guitar

How to Make Up Your Own Songs On the Guitar 1 PICK a Key for Your Song! 2 ROLL a Die to Select Chords From that Key! 3 PLAY Your Song! 1 PICK a Key for Your Song! Pick a key for your song by choosing any row of chords below. 2 ROLL a Die to Select Chords From that Key Or just randomly pick any chords from that key. To Make a Song While You Listen: Pick the key of C below and click any yellow buttons Jesse's Easy Chord Chart (The six main chords in three popular keys) Key of C C Major Listen Initially D minor Listen click each E minor Listen button F Major Listen once to G Major Listen activate A minor Listen it Key of D D Major E minor F#/Gb minor G Major A Major B minor Key of G G Major A minor B minor C Major D Major E minor 3 PLAY Your Song! Then pick up your guitar and play the chords you just selected. Click here to learn how to play chords on your guitar.

Welcome to Guitar-On-the-Spot.com where you'll discover how to play the guitar the fun way. On this web site you'll find out how easy it is to do things that you didn't realize you could do and you'll never want to put your guitar down.

There are a bunch of free online guitar lessons on this website that you can check out and if you feel like you want to know more you can download a free guitar e-book and subscribe to my free song making guitar lessons.  If you really want to know more you can get my e-book: Guitar On the Spot - Understanding the Code.

If you have the ambition to play the guitar but you're having a hard time making sense of it, I feel your PAIN. I struggled for years until I finally discovered the Key Concept. Then it all made sense and I realized I had to create this web site for you. Because when you know the Key Concept, playing the guitar is immediately fun.

So let's get started.

Here's the secret:

So what's a key?
A key is basically a group of notes (you play a note when you pluck one string on the guitar). Each key has a different group of notes. The key of D has one group of notes, the key of G has a different group of notes, etc.

Each key also has a group of chords. A chord is three or more notes played at the same time. Chords have names like "C Major" or "A minor". The chords in each key are made using the notes in each key. Jesse's Song Making Machine above shows you the six main chords in the keys of C, D and G.

When musicians make up a song, they pick a key and then "mainly" use the notes and chords that belong to that key. So Hotel California by the Eagles (in the list above), mainly uses the notes and chords in the key of D. Imagine by John Lennon mainly uses the notes and chords in the key of C.

1. So how do you make up your own songs?
   An easy way is to pick a key for your song. And then strum any chords that belong to that key.
   
   
2. How do you play along with a song (solo on lead guitar)?
   You just play any notes that belong to the same key as the song. They will automatically sound good because they're in the same key. It's easy, you only need to know one simple solo pattern and you can solo in any key.
   
   
3. How do you jam with other people?
   Once you know how to do #1 and #2 above, you can automatically jam with other people. One person can play rhythm by strumming any chords from one key. And another person can play lead by playing any notes from the same key.

Once you see how this works, you can add more variety to your songs by playing rhythm and lead guitar at the same time. You just mix chords and individual notes to make up riffs.

There are no rules that you "must" follow, these are just guidelines to get you started. After you get going you can experiment by switching and mixing keys. For a more detailed explanation of notes, chords and the key concept click here.

So where do you start?
That depends on what you want to do.

Note: There's a section on this web site called Guitar Basics that shows you stuff like: the parts of the guitar, how to hold and strum a guitar and other information that you might want to refer to as you go along, especially if you're a complete beginner.

There's also a section that shows you How To Tune Your Guitar With or Without a Guitar Tuner to make sure that your guitar sounds good.

Click on the links below to get started:

Click here to make up your own songs.



Click here to play along with virtually any song by soloing on lead guitar.



Click here to learn how to jam with other people.

Understand Guitar On the Spot Understanding the Code $29.95 $14.95 click here to buy Guitar music created using the code Guitar On the Spot Understanding the Code Do you have the ambition to play the guitar, but you can't quite piece it all together? In Understanding the Code you’ll discover the simple code that is the foundation of the guitar. You'll use it to make up your own songs, solos and riffs up and down the guitar neck, jam with other people and figure out how to play simple songs, solos and riffs by ear. You don’t need to read notes You don’t need to read tab You don’t need any experience I never thought I could make sense of the guitar. I spent months trying to teach myself. Then my friend told me to check out this book and I finally "got it". -Mike B., Santa Barbara, CA "When I saw the book I thought ohhhh it’s just another book. You know I've looked at a lot of books and they basically remind me that I need to practice various chord patterns and shapes and notes, it’s all about practice, but with Jesse’s book, it allowed me to practice in a more effective way that really benefited my guitar playing." "It brought all those things that I thought were vastly beyond my abilities down to my level of understanding so that I could apply them and improve my skills." "I think it’s a great way to start if you’ve never played because you can just use this whole formula that he’s developed to enhance you’re playing and to learn" -Jon B., MI I give you an 8 week complete money back guarantee. So if you decide it's not what you're looking for I'll give you your money back. If you've been reading a bunch of books trying to “figure it out” (that’s what I did, it took me years) and you're still confused, just check out the code and see if it clears anything up for you. click here to see the Table of Contents

If you have any questions, comments, complaints or suddenly get lost because I wasn't clear please help me help you and everybody else by emailing me at guitaronthespot@hotmail.com

I look forward to hearing your songs! Jesse Hunt

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