Subject: F Major Barre Chords
F Major Barre Chords
August 10th, 2016 at 8:29 am EDTHey Friend, Here we go - the barre version of the dread (pirate) F major chord. Maybe not so scary and painful as you thought, prior to this week. Yesterday you got nearly a dozen ways to play the F triad, most of which are very easy to play. Why don ...
F Major Positions
August 9th, 2016 at 8:26 am EDTHey Friend, Let's look at the various triad shapes you have available to you for F major. The first five give you the shapes from the CAGED system. We've also got good representation from each inversion. Four of the chords are root inversions with t ...
F Major Intro
August 8th, 2016 at 8:29 am EDTHey Friend, Today marks the halfway point in the chords of the C major key. F major is the perfect fourth interval in the C major scale, and the first major chord we've encountered since we started playing around with C major. It falls in as chord nu ...
C Major Double Stops
August 7th, 2016 at 2:07 pm EDTHey Friend, I thought that today, before we move on to the next chord in the C major line-up, we talk about a little technique you can use to spice up your chord work. The technique is called "double stops." I came across a good article that gives 10 ...
TCC Week 6 Review
August 6th, 2016 at 2:18 pm EDTHey Friend, S-S-S Saturday! Gotta love the weekend (whenever you actually get to take two days off from work in a row). Here's a little ditty to make you smile... We've got the weekly review, covering the lovely and talented E minor chord. While she ...
C to E Minor
August 5th, 2016 at 8:24 am EDTHey Friend, Last week when we looked at the D minor chord, I said it would be rare for you to see the C major to D minor chord change, especially in Rock music. Not so for C to E minor. This is a very useful chord change in Rock. The E minor chord la ...
E Minor Barre Chord
August 4th, 2016 at 8:17 am EDTHey Friend, Today's tabs show the progressive construction of the E minor barre chords. Well, maybe that's not entirely accurate, because the root 6 barre chord is the same as the first position E chord. Of course, to make the chord minor, we drop th ...
E Minor Positions
August 3rd, 2016 at 8:27 am EDTHey Friend, With the various E minor shapes you're likely to encounter, I followed the same format by giving you the first five chord shapes following the CAGED system. Here are the tabs. The first is the C chord shape, modified to reflect that it's ...
E Minor Intro
August 2nd, 2016 at 8:25 am EDTHey Friend, Moving right along, let's start looking at the next chord in the key of C major - E minor. If you recall, this chord is the "IIIm" or the three chord from the harmonic progression in the key of C major. Remember... C, Dm, Em, F, G, Am, Bd ...
Other Keys?
August 1st, 2016 at 8:37 am EDTHey Friend, I was looking over some notes yesterday and saw that I forgot something I wanted to share with you about each chord we study. As we look at the chords in a key, there's always another side of the chord we don't think about. I'm not talkin ...