What are Chords? - The Harmonized Major Scale

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Instructor: Mike Edwin Level: Beginner Topic: Chords Style: Any Style

Excerpt: 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. Loo...

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Instructor: Mike Edwin Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style

Excerpt: 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 the same root note as the Chord your after. This would be the C Major scale for a CMaj chord. Scale C D E F G A B C Count from the root note C and s...

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Instructor: Mike Edwin Level: Beginner Topic: Theory Style: Any Style

Excerpt: 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 notes) we must make sure that the 3rd is minor. If the Chord is going to be a 'minor 7th' we will have to give it a minor 3rd & a minor 7th. So l...

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