Subject: B Major Barre Chords
B Major Barre Chords
January 29th, 2017 at 10:22 am EDTHey Friend, A bit of a late start today, I'm afraid. I mentioned to you yesterday that we were gutting a bathroom, and that took its toll. Both of us were pretty well wiped out after all the manual labor and dust. But on the plus side, that work is d ...
B Major Chord Positions
January 28th, 2017 at 8:33 am EDTHey Friend, As promised, I've got both the B major introduction exercises AND eleven different triad positions up the neck. Hope you didn't have plans for today! Alright, fine, I know I'm not the boss of you, but these positions give you options outs ...
B Major Intro, Too
January 27th, 2017 at 8:30 am EDTHey Friend, Did you figure out the notes to B major yesterday? If you did your homework, you'll know the notes are B, D# and F#. The B note is the fifth scale degree in the key of E major, and the 1 note in the B major chord. As I mentioned yesterday ...
B Major Intro
January 26th, 2017 at 8:32 am EDTHey Friend, I found out I have to go into work early today, so it put a real cramp on writing time this morning. I'm in rush mode, so apologies... B Major The next chord we're going to look at in the key of E major is B major, another one that strike ...
E to A Chord Changes
January 25th, 2017 at 8:31 am EDTHey Friend, Back to work! Here are the exercises to practice the E major to A major chord changes. This is the I to IV progression in the key of E major. E to A Chord Change Exercise PDFE to A Chord Change Exercise MP3 There was a very similar exerc ...
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 ...