Guitar Harmony Lesson- Expanding our guitar chord voicing in the style of John Mayer
- 10 years ago
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In this guitar lesson, Jon MacLennan will teach you some cool shapes for the diatonic chords with seventh in the style of John Mayer. These kind of chords are really important since having a good harmony background will help you to become a better musician. Sometimes we forget about being a good rhythm player, everyone wants to play leads and tons of licks, but we forget the art of rhythm guitar.
So, what is a chord? Three or more notes simultaneously sounded form a chord. Traditionally, chords have been built by superimposing two or more thirds and they are created with the notes of a scale.
Alright, the example of today´s lesson is about chords with seventh. This means that we will add a note to our standard 3 notes chord. So now, we will have the root, a 3rd (major or minor third depending of the chord quality), a perfect 5th and a major or minor 7th. About this last note, the 7th, it works this way: If the chord is major, it will have a major 7th. If we have a minor chord we will have a minor 7th. But if we have a major chord but it will work as a dominant chord, it will be a major triad or chord with a minor 7th.
So, back to the lesson, Jon will teach you all the chords with seventh from the G major tonality. Of course, there´s a lot of ways of playing those chords, but in this tutorial you will learn some special chord shapes. Basically we will have a triad on the higher notes and then we will add a bass note which we are going to play with our thumb. This is something pretty used by the bluesmen, especially those who plays while singing.
Ok, hope this helps and don´t forget to come up with your own ideas, which is the best advice for starting to find `your´ unique sound and style. That is all for today... Also I suggest that you keep enjoying and learning from Jon MacLennan and all the staff of Guitarcontrol.com! Where? In our free guitar lessons at www.youtube.com/guitarcontrol
Click on the link above to get the tabs for this video! GO!
In this guitar lesson, Jon MacLennan will teach you some cool shapes for the diatonic chords with seventh in the style of John Mayer. These kind of chords are really important since having a good harmony background will help you to become a better musician. Sometimes we forget about being a good rhythm player, everyone wants to play leads and tons of licks, but we forget the art of rhythm guitar.
So, what is a chord? Three or more notes simultaneously sounded form a chord. Traditionally, chords have been built by superimposing two or more thirds and they are created with the notes of a scale.
Alright, the example of today´s lesson is about chords with seventh. This means that we will add a note to our standard 3 notes chord. So now, we will have the root, a 3rd (major or minor third depending of the chord quality), a perfect 5th and a major or minor 7th. About this last note, the 7th, it works this way: If the chord is major, it will have a major 7th. If we have a minor chord we will have a minor 7th. But if we have a major chord but it will work as a dominant chord, it will be a major triad or chord with a minor 7th.
So, back to the lesson, Jon will teach you all the chords with seventh from the G major tonality. Of course, there´s a lot of ways of playing those chords, but in this tutorial you will learn some special chord shapes. Basically we will have a triad on the higher notes and then we will add a bass note which we are going to play with our thumb. This is something pretty used by the bluesmen, especially those who plays while singing.
Ok, hope this helps and don´t forget to come up with your own ideas, which is the best advice for starting to find `your´ unique sound and style. That is all for today... Also I suggest that you keep enjoying and learning from Jon MacLennan and all the staff of Guitarcontrol.com! Where? In our free guitar lessons at www.youtube.com/guitarcontrol