Carrying over from chord intro yesterday, C# minor shows up in six different keys - three major and three minor. No surprises here - that C# major key is still pretty ugly...
G#m Gm A#° B C#m D#m E F#
Now here's a little something that IS out of the ordinary - C#m has twelve different shapes and positions you can use. Up until now, the most we've had is eleven simple triads to work with.
C# minor gives us four of each inversion. In the PDF, I've listed them in this order: root, first and second. Just to remind you, root inversion triads have a note order of 1 3 5 from the scale that birthed them (in this case, C# major). First inversion triads take the scale notes and line them up in 3 5 1 order, meaning when you strum downward, the notes you'll play in order are 3 5 1.
Second inversions have a note order of 5 1 3. For us Rockers, second inversion chords tend to be the most common that we use, mainly because we play a lot of barre/power chords.
As with most of the chord we've seen so far, none of these are particularly difficult to play. Some can be a little awkward, but you shouldn't have too much trouble with them.
The challenges come up when working some of these shapes into your routine. You have to get your fingers used to the shape first. After you can form the shape consistently, you must get your fingers used to making chord changes - one chord songs don't usually go too far!
The exercises are straightforward, but as always, should you have questions, just hit reply to this email.
C#m Positions PDFC#m Positions MP3You can right-click these links and choose "save link as" to download them to your computer.
Time to do the Friday happy dance... oh wait. Still have to make it to 5 o'clock. Anyway, I'm still happy it's Friday! See ya...
