This chart gives you three chord/family fretboard positions that help you play chords and chord-based licks all over the fretboard in any key. You can move automatically from I-IV-V in three different places on the guitar (per key) using the same three or four note chord fragments you played when we discussed the DAF formation lesson.Read More »DAF: Chord Fragments And Families
Common chord symbols include: C7-9, C7♭9Read More »Seventh Flat Ninth Chord
C6 Open C6 Barred (the audio example is D6 with it’s root on the 5th fret) Fret/Chord Chart You can determine the name of the… Read More »C Shape Sixth Chord Barred
Here we’ll deal with Amending Chords and Leaving Out Notes.Read More »Amending Chords
Simply strumming chords to a song can get quite boring rather quickly. Here we are going to alternate between a bass line and the chord voicings to create a more interesting sonic landscape from some of the basic chord forms that you already know.
Newton’s Third Law of motion says that for every action is and equal and opposite reaction. One could say this about music, also. The major chord produces a sound that can be considered “happy” while the minor chord sounds “sad”. The interaction between major and minor chords is what drives many songs.
Minor Seventh (formally “minor/minor seventh”, also m7,-7): root, minor third, perfect fifth, minor seventh.
Where major and minor triads have 3 different notes, 7th chords have 4. The major seventh chord refers to where the “seventh” note is a major seventh above… Read More »Open E Major 7th Chord
Where major and minor triads have 3 different notes, 7th chords have 4. The major seventh chord refers to where the “seventh” note is a major seventh above… Read More »Open A Major 7th chord