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Open Guitar Chord Chart
Below is a handy open guitar chord chart that you can download and print for offline viewing. Open chords are guitar chords that utilize open strings. They should be among the first chords a guitarist learns. Don’t know how to read a chord diagram like you see in the chord chart? Learn how here. If…
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Chord Substitution: Major 7th Chords
Major 7th Chords PDF Where major and minor triads have 3 different notes, 7th chords have 4. The major seventh chord refers to where the “seventh” note is a major seventh above the root . This is also known as the major/major seventh chord, and it can be written as maj7, M7. Major 7th chords are different than dominant 7th chords (whose 7th is…
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G & Em Chord Progressions
When a song is in the key of G major, the Em chord will seamlessly intertwine with the tonic. Remember, ”Tonic” is just a fancy word for the root chord. It’s often referred to as the 1 chord, or the Roman numeral I chord. This chord is dependent upon the key signature of the song-…
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24 Ways To Play The Dominant 9th Chord
All of these chords can substitute any of the I, IV, V chord found in blues. For example you can substitute E9 for E major. It’s common symbol is simply a “9”. For example: E9 is an E dominant 9th chord. Our first 9th chord looks like this: The root of the chord is…
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Barre Chord Breakdown
You cannot play every chord in the guitar’s open position. What if you wanted to play an F or B chord? How about an F# or Gb chord for that matter? You can’t do it without using a barre chord. There are 12 possible major chords and without barre chords, you can only play 5…
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Fun With Open Strings
Open String Thing PDF Example 1 In our first example we’ll play around with the open C chord’s open strings. Example 2 Let’s do the same with the D chord… Example 3 Reckless use of open strings can allow creativity to take control. Example 4 This could be the beginnings of a great song… Example 5…
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A Minor Shape Barre Chord
Fret/Chord Chart You can determine the name of the chord when the root (lowest) note is played on the frets in the chart below. Fret 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Chord A#/Bb B C C#/Db D D#/Eb E F F#/Gb G G#/Ab A Alternate Fingering Here is a popular…
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A Shape Barre Chord
Learn how to play this important barre chord shape. Fret/Chord Chart You can determine the name of the chord when the root (lowest) note is played on the frets in the chart below. Fret 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Chord A#/Bb B C C#/Dd D D#/Eb E F F#/Gb…
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Cmaj7 (C major seventh chord)
The C major seventh (also know as CM7, Cmaj7). Where major and minor triads have 3 different notes, 7th chords have 4. We can construct the CM7 chord by taking a look at the C Major Scale: We can take the 1st, 3rd, 5th notes of the scale to create the C major chord. To make a C major seventh…
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Dm7 (D minor seventh chord)
The D minor seventh (also know as Dm7, D-7). The notes include the root, minor third, perfect fifth, minor seventh. Dm7 (D minor seventh chord) A great chord vamp that you can use this with is a Dm7, G chord progression. Watch to the video for some ideas: How Does Dm7 Sound? What uses have…