The Complete Guitar Chord Masterclass - Advanced Chords

Explore arpeggios on the guitar neck, breaking chords into notes one at a time to craft engaging progressions using major, minor, and seventh chords.

Practice flat five substitutions by borrowing from the natural five to spice progressions. In key of C, replace G7 with Db7 for a half-step tension.

Discover secondary dominance, the V of the V in the key of C, by using a D7 to G7 to C. It builds tension before resolving to the root.

Explore horizontal inversions across the fretboard to unlock four chord positions and twelve ways to play a D chord, using second, root, and first inversion shapes.

Explore sliding chords as moving shapes up the neck, using half-step and whole-step moves, while managing open strings and muting to craft chords like B and C from A.

Explore chord tensions and extensions, clarify their difference, and learn that non rudimentary notes like the sixth are tensions, while ninth, eleventh, and thirteenth chords are extensions.

Learn major sixth chords and sixth shapes across the sixth and fifth strings, using notes 1, 3, 5, and 6; explore a major six in A and D.

Master the minor sixth shape and its movable voicing on the sixth and fifth strings, keeping the six while adding tensions and a flat three for haunting minor chords.

Master ninth chords as extensions to the basic 1-3-5-7 chord, adding a nine on top while the core notes stay the same in major, minor, and dominant forms.

Learn the major nine guitar chord shape, including root, third, seven, and nine notes, with movable shapes starting on the fifth or seventh fret for e and b notes.

Explore minor 9th chord shapes on the fifth and sixth strings, keeping the root and nine while adjusting the minor third and minor seven.

Explore dominant nine chord shapes by lowering the seven over a major triad and adding the nine, creating bluesy sounds on the fifth and sixth strings with practical fingerings.

Explore dominant nine chords with sharp nine and flat nine alterations, and learn to move the ninth up by one across chord shapes, including E dominant flat nine.

Explore 11th and 13th chords, learn their unique shapes, and extend triads to the 11th and 13th notes using major and minor modes from the root.

Learn to break down chords by focusing on the root and quality, then apply steps to form chords like e minor seven sus2 flat five and move to first inversion.

Explore how to apply guitar chords across blues, jazz, rock, and neo-soul styles to fit band play or writing needs, in this four-lesson intro.

Explore how blues chords turn major tones into seventh chords to create a bluesy sound in a one-four-five progression. Use chromatic motion from five to four and back to one.

Explore jazz style chords by mastering tensions, extensions, and substitutions, including sixes and nines with a flat five substitution, to keep ears engaged, even if you're playing other genres.

Learn rock guitar techniques using power chords, major or minor, palm muting, and distortion, then open the chords for the chorus, and boost tone by bar fingering for extra oomph.

Master neo-soul chord voicings with spread voicing and inversions. Move through scale tones, use vibrato with or without the bar, and add single-note embellishments for a soft, creative neo-soul sound.

Explore common chord progressions that appear in pop and blues styles to recognize genres, write your own songs, and predict upcoming chords.

Explore the 251 ii–V–I ending, from two minor, five, seven down to the one, in C with open chords, and include secondary dominant or flat five substitution in a251.

Explore a common pop chord progression built from scale degrees one, four, five, and six, illustrated in C as C, G, A minor, and F.

Explore the I-IV-V-VI chord progression in the key of G and see how rhythm, strumming patterns, drums, and melody shape a song’s distinct sound.

Master a common I–II–IV chord progression in c major, using c, d minor, and f, with a punk vibe.

Explore the twelve-bar blues in G (1–4–1–4–1–5–4–1 back to 5) as blues music 101, with major-to-dominant-seven substitutions and sus4 movements.

Master the progression from the one to the flat seven back to the one, delivering a majestic, superhero movie vibe with jazzy color.

Learn to play with a band by aligning your chords with others' ranges, using inversions on the first two strings and middle-register voicings.

conclude the course by presenting a final project that applies one or two advanced chord techniques to a chosen progression and share it via video, audio, or a typed explanation.