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| Beginner Open String Guitar Chords - Part 1 |
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| Ok, you just got your guitar and your sitting there pondering on where to begin, your asking yourself what chords should I learn. Bar chords, what's a 7th chord, what's a major chord and on and on. Well, we will put your mind at ease and help you get started. We have listed the most popular chords played in the first position that all have open strings in them. These chords are a good first start to help build your finger strength, finger memory plus there are thousands of songs you can play using them. |
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| The 10 Different Seventh Chords |
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| In this lesson you will see all ten different seventh type chords. Includes Diminished,Half Diminished,Minor Seventh, Dominant Seventh, Seventh Diminished 5th,Major Seventh and more.... All chords are in the key of C for easy reference. |
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| 12 Bar Blues using II V Chords |
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The II V I progression is used mostly in in jazz music. They add a nice resolving feel to the root chord. For example instead of resolving from E7 to A7 you would now resolve to A7 by adding a II V progression which would be (B-7 E7) then finally A7 the I chord. You could consider this type of blues progression a Jazz Blues Form.
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| Basic 12 Bar Blues Form |
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| For those of you that are just starting out and like listening to the blues this file is for you. Blues is one of the simpliest forms of music but can be improvised and made more interestting by using altered chords, inversions and more... They call it the 12 Bar Blues because after you play 12 bars you repeat it over and over. There's many different styles of blues from Texas Blues, Delta Blues, Chicago Blues, Jazz Blues and more.. The sky is the limit. Included is the basic form to get you started. |
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| Playing the Blues using Sub V Chords |
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| A sub five (V) chord is a substitute chord for the 5 (V) chord in a progression which happens to be a dominant chord. In the case of blues that uses most dom 7 chords, you can use the sub 5 (V) chords replacing all the original chords if you chose too. This method is used alot in the style of jazz. |
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| Triad Improvisation Part 4. Final |
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In this last installment Triad Improvisation Part 4. We will take a look at triads on the 6,5,4 strings of the guitar. Again we will use the major chord forms as a reference to the rest of the triads to keep things simple. The major form is the first chord in each example followed by augmented,minor then diminished just as in example 1,2,3. |
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| Triad Improvisation Part 3. |
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In this installment Triad Improvisation Part 3. We will take a look at triads on the 5,4,3 strings of the guitar. Again we will use the major chord forms as a reference to the rest of the triads to keep things simple. The major form is the first chord in each example followed by augmented,minor then diminished. You should also memorize each form!
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| Triad Improvisation Part 2. |
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| In this installment Triad Improvisation Part 2. We will take a look at triads on the 4,3,2 strings of the guitar. As mentioned in Part 1. A triad is a chord with only 3 notes. They are built by using the (1) Root (3rd) and (5th) of the major scale if the triad is Major. In the key of G the notes would be G,B,D |
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| Triad Improvisation Part 1. |
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In this lesson Triad Improvisation we will take a look at triads on the 3,2,1 strings of the guitar. A Triad is a chord with only 3 notes. They are built by using the (1) Root (3rd) and (5th) of the major scale if the triad is Major. In the key of G the notes would be G,B,D.
Note: There are only four types of triads. Major Minor, Augmented and Diminished. If the Triad is Minor we would lower the 3rd (1-b3-5) notes from the Natural Minor Scale. If the Triad is Augmented we would raise the 5th (1-3-#5) Notes from the Whole Tone Scale. If the triad is Diminished we would lower the 5th (1-b3-b5) Notes from the Diminished Scale. Read on...
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| Chord Progressions |
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| Chord progressions are the basis of playing guitar. They set a basic foundation of rhythm. The first thing you must do is find a key which you would like to work in. Let's take the key of C for example. The notes in the C Major Scale are C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C. Now take the degrees of these notes and write them out. |
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| Adding Color to Dominant Chords Moving Chromatically |
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| guitar101 writes "In this lesson we will show you a cool an easy way to look at dominant type chords and how to add color to them. We will add the intervals b9, 9, #9, 11, #11, b13, 13. We will start with 3 dominant chord forms on the inside 4 strings 5, 4, 3, 2 (E7,E9)." |
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| Polychord and Upper Structure Voicings |
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| The basis of a polychord voicing is to play two different chords at the same time, such as one in the left hand and one in the right on a piano. The relationship between the two chords determines the quality of the resultant chord. These are always two handed voicings on a piano, or five or six string voicings on the guitar. They produce a very rich, complex sounds. |
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| Top Note Chords-Voice Leading |
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| The purpose of this lesson is to develop chord voice leading capability's coupled with increasing your chord vocabulary. We will be working with major key based chords in the major scale (i.e., a key based on a scale where the interval spacing between notes is W-W-H-W-W-W-H, where W means whole tone and H means half tone). |
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| John Coltrane II V7 Chord Substitutions Part.1 |
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| Most all musicians can appreciate the music of jazz sax player John Coltrane. Coltrane left his mark on the music world and changed the way we musicians look at harmonic considerations. During Coltrane's [change running] period he employed most of the harmonic devices of his contemporaries, II, V7 I patterns of the bebop era,turnarounds and other formula's.
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| Using the Dom 9 chord in the Blues |
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| brian writes "Using the Dom 9 chord in blues can spice up your chord melodies and add interest to your solo's because of the added tension of the 9th interval. In this simple lesson we will show you three Dom 9 chord forms that are very useful and practical to use in your own blues music." |
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