Subject: C# Minor as the VIm Chord
C# Minor as the VIm Chord
January 31st, 2017 at 8:27 am EDTHey Friend, Here we are, the last day of January 2017. Can you believe it?! The year is flying by like your favorite shredder's fastest lick! We've spent the last few days on B major, so now we look to our VIm chord in the E major key - C# minor. C#m ...
E to B Chord Changes
January 30th, 2017 at 8:24 am EDTHey Friend, I've got a handful of chord changes for you today. This should keep most of you out of trouble! What you'll notice is some of these changes only require you to move the shape over one set of strings, so there is minimum finger gymnastics ...
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 ...