#76: 5 Easy Tricks To Spice Up Boring Chords
🕑 Added 2020-04-10 13:00:02 +0000 UTCToday we check out another topic from the lesson wishlist - we work on some more interesting and suspenseful minor chords! I thought it would be a great idea to take the basic E minor voicing we probably all know as a reference and then see what we can do with that :)
I made a sheet for today's lesson, there you can see each voicing a bit better! Make sure to also learn which notes you are playing here so you don't run into problems (the chords featuring the major sixth for example - that can be quite dangerous).
Have a great weekend!
Comments
Evan
Amazing chords.
Bernd Brodträger
Hey Steve, yes that one is pretty tough - making all the notes ring here without blocking the strings is tricky! Yes, you can move these chords all over the neck :) The root is E (7th fret of the A string) for all voicings in the video, so if you move them up one fret/semitone you get an F minor voicing and so on! It's a great idea to practice them in a lot of different positions on the neck.
Steve Shaw
The Bonus Em Add9 is a bit if a stretch, but after your advice of guitar position when playing big stretches helped enormously, Just one question, being new to theory stuff are the a barre chord positions, moveable all over the neck?
Bernd Brodträger
You know your chords Scott - that's true! :) Including the 9th always sounds cool to me, also with major chords!
Scott Walden
Cool lesson. The E9 chord is used a lot in blues. Looks like I need to just drop the major 3rd to a minor 3rd to get the Em9 chord?