My Favorite Chord: add9 with 3rd in the Bass
My Favorite Chord: add9 with 3rd in the Bass Before we get into the add9 chords: I just launched the pre-sale of 2 e-books I’m about to publish. If I can sell 400 copies of both books (i.e. 800 copies) by September 25, I will reach bestseller status this month. (50 copies already sold, 750
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Spicing Up Rhythm Parts with 6th Intervals
Spicing Up Rhythm Parts with 6th Intervals A great way to come up with awesome sounding rhythm guitar parts, is combining chord strums with melodic lines in 6ths. You can hear an amazing example of this in John Mayer’s song “Belief” Jimi Hendrix is another guitarist who came up with cool rhythm guitar parts using
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Use Chords You Know to Create 9th Chords
Use Chords You Know to Create 9th Chords An easy way to add a 9th to a chord, is by playing the chord in the scale that is up 3 letters from that chord, as a 7th chord. I know this sounds complicated when explained like this, but the examples will clear it all up.
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Fun Musician Drills, Cool Guitars and Some Humor
Fun Musician Drills, Cool Guitars and Some Humor Cool Improvisation Trick This is something I strongly encourage you to try out. Solo over one of your favorite songs or over a backing track, with an in position (7-note or pentatonic) scale, consistently leaving one string out. For example: solo with the root position A minor
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In-Position Soloing Over Cmaj7 Bbmaj7
In Position Soloing Over Cmaj7 Gm7. This is a continuation of last week’s free lessons, which you can check here: Solo In Position over Cmaj7 Fm7. Check this blog first and check out all the pages that it links to. It will make everyting in today’s lesson easier to follow Today we’ll talk about some
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