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What are Chords? - The Harmonized Major Scale
Mike Edwin
Chords! A chord is a series of notes played together. There are hundreds even thousands of chords available to play on the guitar. Once you begin to understand the essentials of building chords, and understanding what defines them. You will be surprised at how quickly all the rest start making sense to you. This tutorial will be starting from scratch. Looking at the fundamental information required to identify major and minor chord types. As well as picking the right notes for building them. Join me in the next video where we will begin building our first major chord!
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Lesson · 2m What are Chords?
Chords! A chord is a series of notes played together. There are hundreds even thousands of chords available to play on the guitar. Once you begin to understand the essentials of building chords, and...
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Lesson · 3m The Major Chord
Building Major Chords is quite simple, and with this video I hope to show just that. We begin by picking the chord we want to build. In this case it will be a CMaj chord. Play the Major scale which begins on...
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Lesson · 3m The Minor Chord
So now that we have built a Major triad and Major7th chord. Lets make a minor chord! The process of building minor chords is exactly the same, bar one thing. If the chord is a 'minor triad' (meaning it has 3...
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