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Guitar Chords Must Knows, Hacks & Logic: Basic to Advanced
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Guitar Chords Must Knows, Hacks & Logic: Basic to Advanced

Guitar Chords Tricks, Patterns, Music Theory, Shortcuts, Nashville Number System, Guitar Lessons, Electric Acoustic
Highest Rated
Created byErich Andreas
Last updated 5/2024
English

What you'll learn

  • Discover why your chords are muted or buzzing.
  • Learn the nine essential chords that will allow you to play tens of thousands of songs.
  • Get advice and encouragement regarding chords from an instructor who has taught over 10,000 one-on-one lessons.
  • Integrate your thumb into chord playing for much cleaner-sounding chords AND new chord formations.
  • Change your understanding of how the chords work together based on diatonic harmony and the Nashville Number System.
  • Play guitar chords with more ease.
  • Discover why understanding relative major/minor will 2x the ease of knowing what chords work in what key.
  • Learn how to simplify songs with many bar chords by knowing how to transpose with the capo.
  • Change/transition chords quickly and cleanly.
  • Discover MASSIVE chord treasures that change the way you look at chords.

Course content

1 section • 31 lectures • 4h 18m total length

  • Welcome0:55
  • How To Read Chord Stamps5:07
  • 9 Essential Chords20:40

    Master the nine essential open chords, learn proper fretting and smooth transitions anchored to the root bass note, and use a capo to play thousands of songs.

  • 02 Basic Chord Technique6:25

    Master basic chord technique by curling the last knuckle and playing on the fingertips near the frets, starting with simple chords and building from lowest to highest note.

  • 04 Curled Knuckle Technique - To Help With Chord Playing4:57
  • Advice and Encouragement7:10
  • Changing Chords - Transitions12:10
  • Quicken Your Chord Transitions Using the Inventory Trick7:06
  • Play Your Chords On Time When Moving From One To The Next8:16
  • Using The Thumb For Muting and Playing Chords14:07

    Explore how to use the thumb on the fretting hand to mute strings and play chords, enabling muting of bass notes and fifth-string root chords for advanced players.

  • Workout For Your Hand Without a Guitar7:32
  • How To Read Chord Charts16:42

    Learn to read chord charts, identify song structure from intro, verse, chorus, and bridge, interpret chords and rhythm notations, and apply the Nashville number system.

  • One Trick That Will Double Your Chord Vocabulary adding the b711:01

    Learn to double your chord vocabulary by adding the flat seven to any major or minor chord, creating dominant seventh and minor seventh sounds.

  • Stationary Springboards - Fretboard Knowledge7:42
  • Movable Springboards - Fretboard Knowledge6:12
  • Using Springboards to instantly double your chord vocabulary7:57
  • Magic Z/Lightning Bolt Pattern-Fretboard Mapping Logic & Theory8:04

    Explore the bolt method, a 145 zigzag fretboard pattern for quick access to the one, four, and five major chords. Use movable springboards to reach notes in the diatonic framework.

  • How and When To Use A Capo9:46
  • Overview of Various Capos7:12
  • Transposing Up AND Down With a Capo - SUPER Powerful Tool for Changing Keys12:18

    Learn to transpose up and down with a capo to change keys swiftly, using diatonic harmony and open chords for comfortable, studio-friendly key feels.

  • How To Keep Everything In The Feel Of G or C Major8:11
  • How to find the chords to any key instantly w/o music theory - 6th string5:38
  • How to find the chords to any key instantly w/o music theory - 5th string root3:57

    Discover how to find chords in any key instantly from the fifth string root, mirroring the sixth string method with bass-note relationships and one four five progressions.

  • Inversions and Slash Chords5:05

    Explore inversions and slash chords by placing notes in the bass under a chord, distinguishing inversions from slash chords with C, E, or G bass examples.

  • Inversions You Will Use A Lot8:43
  • Chord Noodling5:09

    Explore chord noodling by embellishing chords within the key to create motifs. Practice patterns with finger picking or strumming, staying in key and using notes from the G major context.

  • Intro to Power Chords5:42
  • Playing Open Chords on the Electric Guitar - Less is More7:13

    Employ a less is more approach to electric guitar chords by muting notes and using three-note shapes under overdrive to leave space for other players.

  • Nashville Number System12:13
  • Introduction To Relative Major - Minor10:06

    Explore relative major and minor chords, sister chords, and substitute chords. Learn to replace major chords with related minor three half steps down (and vice versa) to boost ear training.

  • 30 Relative Major/Minor on the Piano Kevboard5:10

Requirements

  • You must have a guitar to practice on.
  • You must be able to fret single notes. Being able to play some chords would be helpful
  • Practicing is a must!

Description

This course curates my favorite chord must-knows often missed by guitar players. These “hacks” will give you a much better understanding of guitar chords and massively increase your chord vocabulary with practical applications.


Not only do I create a solid foundation so that you get chords to sound just like you hear them in your head, but I also show you several game-changing shortcuts and must-knows that will take your current chord knowledge and amplify them to new levels.


Discover why your chords are muted or buzzing. 


Learn the nine essential chords that will allow you to play tens of thousands of songs.


Get advice and encouragement regarding chords from an instructor who has taught over 10,000 one-on-one lessons.


Integrate your thumb into chord playing for much cleaner-sounding chords AND new chord formations.


Change your understanding of how the chords work together based on diatonic harmony and the Nashville Number System.


Play with more ease.


Discover why understanding relative major/minor will 2x the ease of knowing what chords work in what key.


Learn how to simplify songs with many bar chords by knowing how to transpose with the capo.


Change/transition chords quickly and cleanly.


Discover MASSIVE chord treasures that change the way you look at chords.



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Your guitar playing will never be the same after going through this course.

Who this course is for:

  • Any guitar players who desire to have a better understanding of playing chords cleanly and quickly.
  • Any guitarists looking to massively upgrade their chord knowledge.
  • Any guitar player desiring to know how chords work together. Which chords go with which chords?

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