Subject: B Minor as the Im Chord
B Minor as the Im Chord
April 4th, 2017 at 8:28 am EDTHey Friend, Busy day already… We have new windows being installed today, so there was a rush to take the blinds down this morning. Ever feel like you’re living in a fishbowl? That’s why we waited to take the blinds down! In the last key we l ...
Key of B Minor
April 3rd, 2017 at 8:35 am EDTHey Friend, We finished up looking at the chords in the key of E minor yesterday. E minor is the relative minor of G, just as A minor is the relative minor of C major. You’ll notice that the Circle of Fifths works for the minor keys as well as the ...
D Major as the VII Chord
April 2nd, 2017 at 9:13 am EDTHey Friend, I am so disappointed in myself! I completely forgot to pull an April fools prank on my kids yesterday. I guess it’s just as well, three out of four of us woke up between 0430 and 0500 hours, so the brains were pretty foggy… The fina ...
C Major as the VI Chord
April 1st, 2017 at 8:44 am EDTHey Friend, We’ve come back to trusty old C major in our study of minor keys. The VI chord in the E minor key is C major. We’ve seen C quite a few times now, but I’ll remind you that the combination of the 1 3 5 notes of the C major scale ma ...
B Minor as the Vm Chord
March 31st, 2017 at 8:35 am EDTHey [[firtname]], The B minor chord is the fifth chord in the E minor harmonic scale: Im II° III IVm Vm VI VII Em F#° G Am Bm C D B minor is a product of combining the 1 3 5 notes from a B minor scale: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (8) B C# D E F# G A (B) Th ...
A Minor As The IVm Chord
March 30th, 2017 at 8:32 am EDTHey Friend, Look at me… I finally got my “stuff” together! Let’s get back to the chords, shall we? In the key of E minor, the A minor chord is the IVm in the harmonic scale. So you’ll find the A note in the fourth scale position; E F# G ...
Rickenbacker Guitars
March 29th, 2017 at 8:39 am EDTHey Friend, I’ve almost got the new computer system to a point where I can start being productive again, so with any luck, we’ll get back to the key of E minor tomorrow. In a world dominated by guitar brands like Gibson and Fender, sometimes we ...
Changing It Up, Part 2
March 28th, 2017 at 8:30 am EDTHey Friend, I got stuck working on some j.o.b. related stuff this morning, so this message is stunted. I feel this compulsion to rant about the current state of computer operating systems and software, but I’m not going for the bait. The end resu ...
Changing It Up
March 27th, 2017 at 8:36 am EDTHey Friend, Hope you had a good weekend. Mine was busy and productive. Slowly, we’re working through the list of home improvement projects and beginning to see the fruits of our labor. Unfortunately, that effectively keeps me from playing my guit ...
Slash Chords
March 26th, 2017 at 9:30 am EDTHey Friend, Before I get back to the weekend chore list, I came across an article I thought explained slash chords quite well. Slash chords imply that you’re going to use an inversion other than the root inversion of a chord (not that these are th ...