Subject: What Can You Do With 'Em?
What Can You Do With 'Em?
February 13th, 2017 at 8:35 am EDTHey Friend, Getting back to our regularly scheduled program (yeah, I went a little off topic with mu major chords), we finished looking at the chords in the key of E major. We studied them as individuals but the real strength of chords is using them ...
Mu Major Chord Construction
February 12th, 2017 at 11:48 am EDTHey Friend, What do you think of the Mu major chords? Fun, huh? Once your fingers get the hang of them, they're not too difficult. You just have to get to that point. Let's look a little deeper at the theory and construction. Mu major chords get thei ...
Mu (add9) Major Chord Exercises
February 11th, 2017 at 9:50 am EDTHey Friend, I worked up the natural Mu major chords for you. If you'd like to read more info about Mu chords, check it out here. In each of these examples, I've tabbed out the "add9" versions, although the G Mu chord could be considered an "add2" due ...
Try This Chord on For Size
February 10th, 2017 at 8:37 am EDTHey Friend, We finished up the last chord in the E major key study yesterday, so I thought we'd take a little side-step and look at a chord form that you don't hear about very often. In fact, I had never heard it called this until I got the latest is ...
E to D#° Chord Changes
February 9th, 2017 at 8:28 am EDTHey Friend, Here is a handful of exercises illustrating various chord changes from E major to D# diminished. These combinations have a distinct directional sound to them. We start with an E chord - the root chord in the key of E. As you play it, noti ...
D# Diminished Barre Chords
February 8th, 2017 at 8:25 am EDTHey Friend, Playing diminished chords as barre chords is more a matter of convenience rather than design. With major and minor chords, when you barre across the strings, any notes fingered by your index finger (as if they would be open strings if th ...
D#dim Chord Positions
February 7th, 2017 at 8:26 am EDTHey Friend, D#° has a lot of options to offer you up the neck. That's a good thing, as some of these diminished chords can be a bear (especially if you're trying out a barre chord version). I will say that playing through each version of the chord ...
D#dim Chord Intro Exercises
February 6th, 2017 at 8:30 am EDTHey Friend, How did you do yesterday with the the chord theory? It can get a little convoluted when you look at the intervals between notes and what note gets a sharp or flat. One nice thing about diminished chords is they only show up in one major ...
D# Diminished Intro
February 5th, 2017 at 9:53 am EDTHey Friend, Let's start looking at the last natural triad you'll find in the key of E major - D# Diminished (D#°). Let's review the E major scale so we know which notes we'll be working with here: E F# G# A B C# D# For this scale we have the three n ...
Saturday Brain Block
February 4th, 2017 at 9:25 am EDTHey Friend, It's the calm before the chaos. As I sit here at my desk, trying to come up with something coherent to say to you, my brain keeps shoving thoughts of guitar aside for the work I've got scheduled for the day. And it's not because I'm excit ...