Subject: B Diminished Barre Chords
B Diminished Barre Chords
August 31st, 2016 at 8:26 am EDTHey Friend, Diminished barre chords have a different shape than what we've gotten accustomed to. Normally, for a major barre chord in the root 6 position, we'd use the index finger to barre all six strings and an E shape chord to get the triad notes. ...
B Diminished Positions
August 30th, 2016 at 8:31 am EDTHey Friend, There's nine variations of the B diminished chord in today's lesson. Some of the shapes will look familiar, while others are new. Again, not a big deal, since there isn't a huge demand for diminished chords in popular music, but we like t ...
B Diminished Intro
August 29th, 2016 at 8:34 am EDTHey Friend, We're down to the last chord in the key of C major. When you listen to it, you will immediately feel tension. You will WANT to move on from this chord! In most cases, you'll be drawn up in pitch to the C major chord. It will feel like you ...
Double Stops Fun
August 28th, 2016 at 12:39 pm EDTHey Friend, A few weeks ago I talked to you about double stops. If you recall, a double stop is where you play two scale intervals together in a chord. It's kind of like a power chord, using two notes, but you aren't restricted to just the one and fi ...
Week 9 Review
August 27th, 2016 at 11:56 am EDTHey Friend, This was a weird week... a week of wake-up calls. Not from a guitar standpoint, but from a life perspective. It's been a long time since I was forced to work an extra day without compensation (after hours). Add on top of that an email fro ...
C to Am
August 26th, 2016 at 8:11 am EDTHey Friend, I running again this morning, but I do have the exercise files ready! Now that we have A minor in the stable, we can play just about any song written in the key of C major. With the fingering I've taught you, the only real challenging ch ...
Working a Double...
August 25th, 2016 at 1:36 pm EDTHey Friend, Apologies for missing the regularly scheduled show... I ended up getting stuck on a job until the early hours of the morning, and was traveling back to the job site before 0730 hours today. That left me with no time to get the lesson file ...
A Minor Barre Chords
August 24th, 2016 at 8:16 am EDTHey Friend, Today is an easy day. You only have one barre chord to deal with. That's because the A minor in the open position already uses the nut as its barre. So we'll have fun with the chord in the fifth position and then review the open chord. Th ...
A Minor Positions
August 23rd, 2016 at 8:32 am EDTHey Friend, I've got nine different positions for the A minor chord in today's lesson. I seemed to have a counting problem, because the MP3 has two instances of the seventh version of the chord. So when you get to the seventh bar, if you're playing a ...
A Minor Intro
August 22nd, 2016 at 8:38 am EDTHey Friend, When it comes to playing most Rock, Blues, and Country music, the VIm chord (minor six) is the last real functional chord at out disposal in the key. Yes, we still need to cover the VII° chord (diminished), but when was the last time you ...