By popular request! What theory do you actually need? And what order should you learn it?
Of course, this video is just my opinion. But I have put a LOT of thought into this! It's actually the crux of my whole teaching syllabus.
The entire list is below but I recommend you watch the full video to hear WHY these topics are important. Enjoy!
The Musical Alphabet
The Basics of the Music Staff
Knowing the Fretboard
The Major Scale
Audiation and Melody
Key Signatures and Enharmonics
Scale Degrees
Triads + Barre Chords
Diatonic Major Chords + Roman Numerals
Writing Progressions in Major
Soloing with the Pentatonic Major Scale
The Minor Scale + Diatonic Chords
Writing Progressions in Minor
Soloing with the Pentatonic Minor Scale
Relative Scales and Tonal Center
Combining Penatonic Shapes
Arpeggios and Chord Tone Soloing
Chord Inversions and Slash Chords
Popular Seventh Chords
Diatonic Seventh Chords
12-Bar Blues Variations + Minor Blues
Diminished Chords
The Harmonic Minor Scale
Suspended Chords
Ear Training Intervals and Chords
Rhythm and Counting
Meter and Time Signature
Song Structure and Sections
Writing Bass Lines
Writing Drum Parts
Creating a full song
Advanced Theory Concepts