Subject: D# Diminished Barre Chords
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 ...
E to C#m Chord Changes
February 3rd, 2017 at 8:26 am EDTHey Friend, Happy Friday! I gotta say, I'm glad today really is Friday - yesterday as I pulled out of the driveway on my way to the j.o.b., I thought we had forgotten to take the garbage out to the curb. Then I realized it was only Thursday... Man, ...
C#m Barre Chords
February 2nd, 2017 at 1:08 pm EDTHey Friend, Sorry for the delay! Had some technical issues this morning when I was trying to get this out to you... The C# minor barre chords are located at the fourth (root 5) and ninth frets (root 6), which is where you barre the strings with your ...
C#m Chord Positions
February 1st, 2017 at 8:34 am EDTHey Friend, You can use C# minor as the VIm chord in at least a dozen positions and shapes. It really won't matter where you are on the neck - there's a triad you can use. You'll see on the exercise files exactly where C#m lines up. Again, let me rem ...
C# Minor as the VIm Chord
January 31st, 2017 at 8:27 am EDTHey Friend, Here we are, the last day of January 2017. Can you believe it?! The year is flying by like your favorite shredder's fastest lick! We've spent the last few days on B major, so now we look to our VIm chord in the E major key - C# minor. C#m ...
E to B Chord Changes
January 30th, 2017 at 8:24 am EDTHey Friend, I've got a handful of chord changes for you today. This should keep most of you out of trouble! What you'll notice is some of these changes only require you to move the shape over one set of strings, so there is minimum finger gymnastics ...