Members SlaveNewWorld0 Posted July 7, 2008 Members Posted July 7, 2008 Chords are great. You can make music and stuff with them. Seriously. Anyway, I put together a course to introduce beginners (well, a little beyond beginner) to barre/movable chords. The plan is simple in my mind: 1) Learn the foundation barre chord shapes (major and minor where applicable). That's the full form E, A, C, D and G shapes. Even though the full voicing for shapes like G aren't commonly used, it's good to learn the full shape theoretically so you can draw from it, like pulling tones out of a box to build your own voicings. The full shape gives you the full box of tones so-to-speak. 2) Learn the variations of the major and minor shapes (e.g. dom7, add6, maj7, maj9, sus4 etc.) 3) Learn how each chord shape relates to another via the bass root note (on the E, A and D strings). For example, the A shape ascends from the same bass root note the C shape descends from. This allows you to see where 5 voicings of the same chord lie, giving you some creative options with voicing. This is covered in the last part. 4) Learn how to cut those full shapes down ready to explore inversions and more intricate lead voicings. Note: This is quite a comprehensive series, and you need to take your time with it (there's much more to barre/movable chords than most beginners think). However, it's still only an introduction, as eventually...and this is important... you'll want to expand out of the "boxed shapes" and map the fretboard in scales and tones rather than fixed positions and segments. This series lays the foundation... http://www.fretjam.com/guitar-barre-chords.html
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