Guitar Level: Intermediate Here’s some alternative ways to play some interesting sounding chords in the key of D (two sharps) that employ the use of triads and a D as the base note for each chord. This is actually called a “pedal tone” in musical lingo and it can produce some really nice sound effects. [...]
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Climbing the D Scale with Chords
Posted: September 16, 2011 in TheoryTags: Chord progression, Chords
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If you’ve been with me for several months then you’ve been through the “Chord Chemistry”, the “CAGED System”, have learned a few scales and the “Circle of Fifths.” It’s now time to put some of this knowledge to use. Today’s post is a practice session for guitarists that uses the A major scale together with [...]
Guitar Level: Advanced Chords are obviously very important to guitarists. In this post, I have enumerated the formulas needed for building a variety of chords using the scale of E as an example. The purpose of this post is not to have you memorize all of these different variations of the E chord. What is important [...]
Slash chords are a powerful addition to the rhythm guitarist’s library of tricks. Most contemporary music now includes a lot of slash chords, but even if you’re sheet music doesn’t; you can add them in the right places to make a noticeable difference. Basically a slash chord is a chord with an alternate bass or [...]
The key of C is unique in that it has no sharps or flats. Shown above are three different configurations of the C-major scale drawn on the guitar fret board and a combination of all three scales shown in the right-most column. You can use these scales to create improvised solos for use over [...]
