Subject: Looking for Resolution
Looking for Resolution
June 30th, 2016 at 11:18 am EDTHey Friend, Yesterday, we established that there are only twelve notes used in Western music. Those notes are: A A#/Bb B C C#/Db D D#/Eb E F F#/Gb G G#/Ab And let me clarify - if a note is sharp (#), it is also a flat (b) note. So an A# note is the ...
12 Notes
June 29th, 2016 at 11:11 am EDTHey Friend, As I said yesterday, without notes, you can't really make chords. Without a key, you don't know what notes you can use for chords. Now you can go far without knowing anything about keys and scales. Truthfully, all you really need to know ...
Embrace Patterns
June 28th, 2016 at 11:17 am EDTHey Friend, Day 1 As with anything new, we start with the fundamentals. I know I've hounded you for a long time on some of this information, but believe me, the more you hear (and study) it, the easier it is to understand. So what is the foundation ...
In The Beginning...
June 27th, 2016 at 11:12 am EDTHey Friend, Well, here we are. The beginning. Wait... maybe I should capitalize that... The Beginning This is The Chord Clinic. Over the next decade or so, we're going to look at everything guitar chords. I envision this as a comprehensive course tea ...
Working Outside the Box
June 26th, 2016 at 11:05 am EDTHey Friend, A couple days ago I talked a little about moving some common chord shapes around to get some different sounds out of them. I put together some tabs with examples of this. The key to using these odd chords is to work them into progressions ...
Starting Next Week...
June 25th, 2016 at 11:12 am EDTHey Friend, Starting next week, we're going to begin the deep dive into all the chords. As I've mentioned before, we're going to break things down first by key and the chords that fit naturally into that key. Each chord will have its "day in the sun" ...
Common Chord Shapes and More
June 24th, 2016 at 12:00 pm EDTHey Friend As I have mentioned before, you only need to learn to play a few chord shapes to open up the fingerboard to unlimited possibilities. Once you know the various chord shapes and can play them like your fingers are on autopilot, you can move ...
Chord Chart Cheat Sheet
June 23rd, 2016 at 11:14 am EDTHey Friend, Just a quick email today with the attached chord chart I promised yesterday. The chart shows each of the chords we've discussed over the past couple weeks, with chord naming convention, note intervals and examples. Using the supplied chea ...
Major 7 Chords
June 22nd, 2016 at 11:22 am EDTHey Friend, There's another 7 chord we haven't talked about yet. I saved it for last because it's not one you're going to see a lot in Rock music. This is the Major 7 chord. Now I know I said I was only looking at chords that you'll see regularly, bu ...
Minor 7 Chord
June 21st, 2016 at 11:14 am EDTHey Friend, Hats off to Brad for taking a stab at answering my question from yesterday, which was, "Can you tell me how we would make a minor 7 chord?" Really. Tell me, 'cause I don't have a clue! Okay, just kidding. A minor 7 chord is made when you ...