Diminished chords provide a unique color which can be characterized as tense or suspenseful. These chords work well as passing chords or for harmonizing chromatic passages. [br] [br][br]
Advanced Chord Inversions (Minor 7 b5)
Minor seventh flat-five chords occur often in jazz, especially in songs written in a minor key. This type of seventh chord is also known as a half-diminished chord. [br] [br][br]
Advanced Chord Inversions (Major 6th)
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)
Major and Minor Scales (Reference Sheet)
Here is a reference sheet that features major and minor scales in all 12 keys. Notice the notes that change when changing a major scale to a minor scale: theContinue readingMajor and Minor Scales (Reference Sheet)
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)