@Aeric Bansuri Welcome to the community! I know you just joined, but we are looking forward to getting to know you, and learning more about your guitar playing journey! @Phil Smith Great to have you! Already you've been posting and sharing your music and getting into the community, and I couldn’t be more thrilled! You definitely fit the vibe! Welcome!

The answer is basically - no. But we are going to cover it anyways. The last chord in the Key of G. F# Diminished. F# A C. Memorize it? Sure! But we almost never use it, you probably wont either. I’ll tell you how you can use it, and then!!!! I’ll suggest a cool alternative TO it that we can use and that is frequently used as an “outside” chord IN G! How to use it: This chord can be used as a V chord. the D to go straight to G. It resolves nicely. Sounds weird, but resolves nicely. This concludes our key of G! Now how to use something I consider more useful? Instead of the viio (Roman numeral for the last chord diminished). let’s kick that back a half step more and make it a major chord, the “Flat 7 chord in G”. the bVII - F major. It too works now with the rest of the chords in G In fact without it, Freebird doesnt exist! G D Em F C D - Intro to Freebird I V vi bVII IV V. When making a bVII in any key take the Letter of that Key, pop it back a letter before, and make it a major chord. so if my Key is G The alphabet letter just before G is F F major is my bVII and sounds great going to G! Hope this made sense! Would love your thoughts and feedback!

I’ll start things off! I’m Sean, a guitar instructor from Texas, I have been teaching since the mid 90s. I’ve had a brick and mortar Guitar Academy since 2004. I’ve been teaching online since 2009. Tell me about you! I’d love to hear your story! Doesn’t have to be elaborate, just what you play how long, any favorite guitars or bands or passions, and anything else you’d like to share! I was a fixture in the Musicians Talk Forum on Ultimate Guitar, which many of you have probably heard of. This was where we all talked music theory and helped other guitarists. I’ve made many great friendship over the years from people there! Currently, I am one of the leaders in the Facebook community “Guitar and Music Theory” which has over 100k members. Beyond all of that, helping others is a passion of mine, and I have been fortunate to have picked up some very unique insights about music and making it easy for others to do the same. I really just want to grow a really tight knit community of like minded players, and hang out, help one another, so if you’d like to join in, welcome aboard, and I hope to be a positive influence in your own guitar journey. One thing that I hope we can do are those virtual meetups, where we just hang out and talk about whatever. and I’m excited to see where that goes. Below is a picture of my studio, where I’ve been teaching out of since 2016. Look forward to getting to know everyone and making new friends!

Story time. Last night, I did an an open Mike at my favorite new hangout, Weber Brewhause. It’s the same one I keep talking about, here and there. So I get there, and @Victor Herrera a good friend, and like a brother, is waiting for me and says “No one’s playing, its all you.”. So I get set up, and, the first thing I realize is, I don’t know what I’m about to do. What am I going to sing? No plan. I plug in, and nothing. Battery in my Breedlove is DOA. So, I do my best and hammer out a few songs. The way I chose my songs, is, I looked through songsheets I created years ago and havent sang since, on my iPad. Mainly for the lyrics. I forget lyrics during songs. Second problem. Victor brings up another chair to lean my iPad on. And when I go to look down at it… its blurry. I cannot see the words. So, now Im on stage about to sing and I cant even see the words. Eyesight has definitely changed a bit. So I try to find a position where I can see the words, and play. It kind of works, but now the boom arm on the mic starts swinging away. So the first three songs, people hear Me sing, but not my dead guitar. After I sing people start pouring in, Victor looks at Me, and says something like “Now you've done it, you issued a challenge, and here they all come!”. The other musicians come pouring in. So while they set up, I head to a little store near by and grab a battery for my Breedlove. I come back in, watch the other musicians, and then I’m called up for my second set. Second set? I didn't even have a first set planned out! I went to get a battery so I didnt plan out my second set. So, at that point, I kind of just grab whatever comes to mind. At least the guitar can be heard now. I used the Ultimate Guitar app on my iPad that I told you I just recently added to find the lyrics for the next songs, but the same issue came up; blurry vision. But I stumbled through whatever songs there were. I didnt even hear my own voice. I couldn’t tell if I was in key, I was trying just to see lyrics. It was interesting. But response was really cool, so that was encouraging.

Welcome to people that I should have welcomed way sooner! I could make a lot of valid excuses, but the truth is I just got jumbled around and the next thing you know one day is two and so on and here we are. Totally my fault. I am GENUINELY glad you are all here! In no particular order: Welcome @George Cole It's great to have you with us. I met George through @Ricardo Ponce who was having a live. In the brief minutes we got to talk, we fought with my horrible mic sound, which occurred during a mild flood at my home, anyways it's a long story and we are all dried out now. But yeah, welcome to the community! Look forward to seeing and getting to know you more! Welcome @Misha Pelt to our community. From the brief into I had with her, she is a new member but also has her own community in which she is trying to help others understand the fretboard. I embrace others out there that are trying to use their own unique way of doing things to help others. I hope we can get to know you and support what youre about and what youre doing, Misha. Please forgive the delay in welcoming you! Welcome @Sam Ryan I got to speak to you briefly, and I hope things are improving for you. Look forward to getting to know you more!