Major sixth chords are traditionally one of the best chords to end a song, and can be found in many different styles of music. [br] [br][br]
Advanced Chord Inversions (Major 7th)
Major seventh chords often occur at the beginning or end of a song, or any time a chord progression resolves to its final chord. [br] In many contexts you canContinue readingAdvanced Chord Inversions (Major 7th)
Advanced Chord Inversions (Minor 7th)
Minor seventh chords are another very common type of seventh chord. They have a more ‘passive’ or ‘cool’ sound compared to the dominant seventh chords in our previous lesson, whichContinue readingAdvanced Chord Inversions (Minor 7th)
Advanced Chord Inversions (Dominant 7th)
In order to play more advanced chord melody on guitar, you will need to memorize a set of chord shapes that use the first four strings of the guitar. It is important to note that these voicings are consistently balanced with always including only a 1, 3, 5, and 7 scale degrees with no doubled notes. … Continue readingAdvanced Chord Inversions (Dominant 7th)
Basic Scales (Part Three)
Minor scales provide a very useful color or emotion, a dark or solemn color, very much the opposite of the bright sound of the major scale. Compared to the majorContinue readingBasic Scales (Part Three)
Basic Scales (Part Two)
In our previous lesson we learned a five-note scale. The most common scales used in music are seven note scales, also known as diatonic scales. Notice that the major scalesContinue readingBasic Scales (Part Two)
Basic Scales (Part One)
A scale is a set of notes that evoke a certain color or emotion, and from scales, melodies are built. A melody is the unique single-note motif of any song,Continue readingBasic Scales (Part One)
Basic Chord Inversions (Part Four)
Below you will find the minor variants of all the chord inversion shapes we learned in the previous three lessons. Notice how the shapes are mostly the same, usually onlyContinue readingBasic Chord Inversions (Part Four)
Basic Chord Inversions (Part Three)
In this lesson we will be combining the chord shapes from the previous two lessons into larger shapes that cover strings 1, 2, 3 and 4. Notice how some ofContinue readingBasic Chord Inversions (Part Three)
Basic Chord Inversions (Part Two)
In our previous lesson we learned chord inversions designed for strings 1, 2 and 3. This time we will be learning inversion shapes designed for a different set of strings,Continue readingBasic Chord Inversions (Part Two)