Subject: D Major Positions
D Major Positions
October 21st, 2016 at 8:30 am EDTHey Friend, Friday is upon us again! Hope you have some cool plans this weekend like my buddy Amanda - she's doing a live gig sitting in with a friend's band. Rockin' out! As promised, I put together the basic exercises for open D major. You can get ...
D Major and CAGED
October 20th, 2016 at 8:32 am EDTHey Friend, I didn't get to building the D major chord exercises yet. My wife's new computer was having a fit and I ended up needing to exchange it. It's not very often you get a hardware glitch, but it happens. Mac or PC, doesn't seem to matter... ...
D Major Intro
October 19th, 2016 at 8:30 am EDTD Major Intro Hey Friend, I know it feels like nearly everything we've done with the key of G major has been review. Of the four chords in the key so far, G, Am and C have been duplicated from the key of C major. Today, we'll start looking at D major ...
C Major Barre Chord
October 18th, 2016 at 8:21 am EDTHey Friend, Today is a refresher on the C major barre chord. I've put together the basic exercises that will help you strengthen your index finger and position your remaining fingers to do their jobs. The first version is the root 5. Barre the first ...
C as the IV Chord
October 17th, 2016 at 8:37 am EDTHey Friend, After Saturday's email, my weekend took a turn to home improvement mode. While I didn't expect to be involved in the project, I ended up spend the rest of Saturday and all of Sunday helping put down a porcelain tile floor. At just over 10 ...
B Minor Barre Chords
October 15th, 2016 at 10:13 am EDTHey Friend, Before we get to talking about the B minor barre chord, I thought I'd mention a cool resource I came across. I found some instructional guitar videos over at Amazon. They lump bass guitar in with the videos, but you can scroll through tho ...
B Minor Positions
October 14th, 2016 at 8:28 am EDTHey Friend, Happy Friday! Today you're going to get all sorts of options to play the B minor chord. I know you're looking forward to this, so let's get started! There are eleven basic triads available to us for B minor. These all have the notes lined ...
B Minor 2
October 13th, 2016 at 8:27 am EDTHey Friend, Picking up from where I fell down yesterday, I mentioned that B major is notes B, D# and F#, but I didn't explain it out. Even though we're focused on the key of G major and looking at the harmonic progression (the basic chords that work ...
Intro to B Minor
October 12th, 2016 at 8:30 am EDTHey Friend, Continuing on with the key of G major, the next chord we come to after A minor is B minor. It is the IIIm chord in this key, and it gets its tension from the pull of the next chord, which is C major. C is tugging B minor up towards the fi ...
A Minor Barres Review
October 11th, 2016 at 8:32 am EDTHey Friend, The A minor barre chord, and in fact any minor barre chord, is based on the same two shapes as the major barre chord - A and E. Except, we're going to make these chords minor. Thank you, Captain Obvious! Using the A minor shape to play th ...