Subject: Altered IV Chords
Altered IV Chords
January 24th, 2017 at 8:33 am EDTHey Friend, Normally I'd have an exercise for you with chord changes between the I chord and the one we're currently studying (the IV version of A major). Alas, I haven't made the exercise files yet, so I wanted to talk a little about something I ju ...
A Major Barre Chords Review
January 23rd, 2017 at 8:25 am EDTHeyFriend, Today we're reviewing the A major barre chords. The root 5 version is very simple - just play the open A major chord. You can either barre the fourth, third and second strings at the second fret with your index finger, or you can play the ...
Positions for A Major
January 22nd, 2017 at 9:40 am EDTHey Friend, I got to be on the receiving end of technical support yesterday. Instead of me being the engineer giving support, I called Sweetwater support to troubleshoot why I still was having trouble with this new recording interface. I was fully pr ...
A in E Major
January 21st, 2017 at 9:32 am EDTHey Friend, As I mentioned yesterday, in the key of E major, the A major chord is the IV chord. Again, A major (or just "A") is constructed using the A major scale: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 A B C# D E F# G# If we write out the E major scale, we also see that th ...
A Major as The IV Chord
January 20th, 2017 at 8:38 am EDTHey Friend, Okay, where were we? Oh yeah, the key of E major. Next up in the harmonic progression is A major acting as the IV chord. A major was also the last key we studied before coming to E major. As I was thinking about that, I realized there's ...
Gettin' It Right
January 19th, 2017 at 8:30 am EDTHey Friend, You get a break today. Ol' Davey is back in the dentist's chair having him fix one of the teeth he worked on last week. It just ain't quite right yet... It's nice that we don't have to be so precise with music. Even when we make a mistake ...
E to G#m Chord Changes
January 18th, 2017 at 8:32 am EDTHey Friend, Today you can play with five systems of E to G#m chord changes, which will give you a taste of using these chords as you might find them in a song. E to G#m Chord Changes PDFE to G#m Chord Changes MP3 (Right-click and "save to computer") ...
G# Minor Barre Chords
January 17th, 2017 at 8:18 am EDTHey Friend, More barre chords... NOOO!!! Yup, can't get enough of them. Major barres. Minor barres. And all the flavors in between... Just like all the various chord positions and shapes, there are quite a few barre chords you can incorporate into yo ...
G# Minor Chord Positions
January 16th, 2017 at 8:27 am EDTHey Friend, There are a dozen basic triads for G# minor. Included in the exercises are four of each inversion. Inversion is an interesting term. As I've been using it in the context of teaching you chords, the inversion type (root, first or second) ...
G# Minor Intro
January 15th, 2017 at 10:17 am EDTHey Friend, Moving up the harmonic scale in the key of E major brings us up to G# minor. G#m would be constructed using the G# scale using the 1 3m 5 notes, but we CAN run into a problem with that scale if we're not paying attention. See if you can ...