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Blues Chords

How To Play Blues Chords Within A Blues Song

Beyond the basic I – IV – V blues progression, there is a wealth of songs that need more than just power chords. In this lesson, we use drop two chord voicings to play blues chords all over the neck and on all strings sets. You’ll find some great ideas for your own playing by downloading the backing track and chord sheet.

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Lesson Twelve – Blues Chords Played Across All Strings Within A Song

This is a partial transcription of the text found within the video above. Welcome back if you’ve been watching the other videos and hello if your just dipping in and you’ve never seen any of the other videos, I’d encourage you to check them out. This is the penultimate video of a thirteen video series which goes through all the lessons found in the book Drop Two Voicings Uncovered written by myself Ged Brockie for GMI. We’re looking at a blues tune today and it’s all notated out for book owners so they can learn the tune. The actual samples that were used in the creation of this aren’t going to winning prizes any time soon, but I’m sure with a guitar lead line over the top it’s going to sound great.

We’re going to be looking at drop two voicings. For book owners, again, they will be able to download further examples of how to play over this. For you as a viewer on Youtube or GMI, you can simply download the chords I’m going to play in this example. So, it’s a twelve bar blues. There is nothing too uncommon in terms of the progression. Each chord shape gets two beats and if you’ve been looking at some of the other videos there is a turnaround at the end which uses a I – VI – II – V progression. Now, if you don’t have a clue what I’m talking about there, I’d encourage you to look back at lesson seven. To hear the full narration and demonstration of lesson twelve, please watch the entire video above.

 

Funk Chords Within A Minor Blues

Funk Chords Within A Minor Blues Song

This video lesson offers guitarists a great way to learn funk chords within the setting of an actual song. Funky Minor Blues is the first of three complete songs with play along and recommended chord ideas. For the owners of the book Drop Two Voicings Uncovered, they also have access to the fully notated song along with TAB notation.

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Lesson Eleven – Complete Song With Funk Chords Explained

This is a partial transcription of the text found within the video above. Hi there, this is lesson eleven, or video eleven and we’re coming towards the end now. We are now looking at actual pieces within the Drop Two Voicings Uncovered book. There are three pieces, fully notated, for book owners to learn. For you watching this video, you can download the chords that I am going to play as I play along with the actual backing track so, you’ll be able to get the backing track. Book owners will also be able to download further examples and ideas from the GMI website so they can so they can prolong their study.

We are going to look at this imaginatively titled Funky Blues In G minor and it’s got that name because it’s a funky blues in G minor; that’s really about it. It’s twelve bars long and each chord shape gets two beats each. There is not a lot to say about this. You are going to see me playing it, but I just want to say that the progression you can see there is filled up with chords and each bar gets two chords each. We will be trying to utilise chords all over strings set one to four and all over the neck. To watch the song being played please watch the video above. Also, ensure that you download the free materials that are presented as part of this offering from GMI – the Guitar & Music Institute.

Cool Chord Progressions

Learning Cool Chord Progressions Up The Fretboard

If you are looking for ways to really help make your playing stand out, then your in for a treat. This lesson features some really cool chord progressions that are played up and across the neck. You can download the free PDF and backing track which will help you with the first of this two part lesson. In the second part, you will be shown how to play up the neck in an unaccompanied chord progression in F minor.

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Lesson Ten – Cool Chord Progressions You Need To Know!

This is a partial transcription of the text found within the video above. This video is all about the progression the I – VI – II – V in a minor key. If you don’t know what that is, then for Youtube users, please check back on the playlist which explains all about that. Basically, millions of tunes use this chord progression; certainly hundreds of thousands. So, it really helps if you know beforehand, how to play a I – VI – II – V progression and the difference in this lesson is we are looking at minor keys.

For those of you who have the book Drop Two Voicings Uncovered, this video lesson discusses chapters twelve and thirteen and we are going to look at two things here. We are going to look at playing with a backing track which you can download along with the chords. In the second part of the lesson I’m not going to play with a backing track a play freestyle through a I – VI – II – V with a slight change in it. We will start at the bottom and play all the way up the neck. So you will have chordal freedom which is what we are all looking for. There is nothing much more for me to say in this lesson other than…to view and hear the rest of this lesson, please view the video above. Download the free resources for a more effective understanding of the playing ideas being discussed.

 

 

Jazz Chord Progressions

Jazz Chord Progressions For Minor Keys

Learning a wide range of major chord progressions is important, but just as important is learning minor jazz chord progressions. In this lesson you will be introduced to the theory and practice of playing through minor keys and progressions. There are many options, but Ged Brockie takes you through each step. Download the free resources now to complement the video.

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Lesson Nine – Minor jazz chord progressions

This is a partial transcription of the text found within the video above. It’s great to see you again, hopefully you’ve been looking at all the other videos in this series which is all about drop two voicings. This is video nine in the course and it relates to the book Drop Two Voicings Uncovered brought out by GMI and specifically relates to lesson number eleven within the book. This lesson is all to do with minor chord progressions and in talking to students, there is sometimes some confusion around this area. So, before I actually play the example that you can download and practice which is a II – V – I in C minor, going up the neck, I just wanted to show you the options that you have. I’m also going to talk a little about why we decide on certain things.

The first and most basic option that you may already know about is that every major scale has a relative minor. So, if we think of the scale E flat major and we go to the sixth degree of that scale we see the tone and chord is C, C minor. If we write this major scale from this new starting point of C minor, we have actually generated the C natural minor harmonisation. The great thing you should know is that all the work we did back in lesson seven regarding major diatonic key signatures is true here. So the progressions we can generate are like I – VI – II – V – I, I – VI – IV – V – I, a II – V – I are used in countless songs, time after time regardless of the songs being a major or minor tonality. To listen to more on this subject and see the in video graphics please watch the video above.

 

 

 

 

Common Chord Progressions

Common Chord Progressions You Should Really Learn

Learning a range of well known and common chord progressions is a must for any aspiring musician. By knowing the best known chord progressions, you will be readying yourself for thousands of the most common songs which utilise the same chord movements again and again. Make sure to watch the entire video and download the free resources right below this text which you can do by clicking the orange “here”.

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Lesson Eight – Do You Know Some Common Chord Progressions?

This is a partial transcription of the text found within the video above. This is now video eight if I am counting correctly. Hopefully you have been looking at the previous videos. If your just dipping in, this series of videos relates to a book released by GMI, written by me Ged Brockie called Drop Two Voicings Uncovered. Hopefully you can look back at some of the previous lessons where you can learn all about it where there is plenty of material which you can learn from and all the concepts are explained all of which are free.

In this video which relates to chapter ten in the book Drop Two Voicings Uncovered, we will be looking at the I – VI – IV – V progression. We have already covered the I – VI – II – V progression, but before I actually play the chords to the backing track which you can download I first wanted to talk about synonyms. In a previous lesson we had talked about synonyms and it was to do with major sixth chords and minor sevenths. This, however, is a real power synonym. A lot of people really don’t know this information, or at least I don’t think they do.

If you watch this video, you will see how you can use a chord in many different ways. The chords that we will be looking at…To hear the full explanation and to see actual demonstration of the points covered, please watch the video now and download the free materials.

 

Diatonic Scale

How To Make The Most Of The Diatonic Scale

The diatonic scale and how key chords are generated from it is a must when it comes to understanding chord scale relationships. In this lesson, through the video and downloadable resources, you will be given the insight and knowledge needed to play in any key and across all three string sets on the guitar. Make sure to click the orange “here” word below to get the free resources.

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Lesson Seven – Understanding and learning the diatonic scale patterns

This is a partial transcription of the text found within the video above. Welcome back and I think we are now beyond mid-point of the thirteen part series and I’ve been talking a lot in previous lessons about progressions; the II – V – I progression, the I – VI – II – V – I progression. Now, I know a lot of you will know what I have been talking about or where that comes from, but there may be some of you who are a little unclear. The reason I have left it until now is that I wanted people who had bought the Drop Two Voicings Uncovered book, or were going through these videos on their own without having the book; using the resources that were provided with each video, I wanted you to really get in there and start doing things. Rather than loading you with masses of theory at the beginning. It all kind of gets like homework and that sort of thing.

So if you’re wondering where all this I – VI – II – V and all the rest of it comes from, well, this is the lesson that will show you where all this comes from. In this lesson I am going to go through one key. In the actual book we cover twelve keys across all three string sets. There will be four keys covered within each string set. Watch the above video to here and learn from the entire text that is given as well as downloading the free resources given at the top of this page.

Guitar Chord Progressions

Guitar Chord Progressions & How You Can Play Them Up The Neck

Playing guitar chord progressions in different ways up the neck can be challenging. That’s why this lesson which is part of a thirteen part series of lesson was created. You’ll learn exactly how to view and create chords that work across the fretboard which are good for a range of musical styles. Make sure you watch the video below in full and download the free resources so that you can get the most from this lesson.

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Lesson Six – How To Learn Guitar Chord Progressions

This is a partial transcription of the text found within the video above. Welcome to video six of the Drop Two Voicings Uncovered companion videos. If you don’t know what that is, it’s a book that GMI have brought out and each of these videos accompany chapters within that book. It doesn’t matter if you don’t have the book by the way, because in every single video there are free resources offered for you to take and get something from whether that’s a backing track, a PDF or both.

I want to talk about in this lesson about bringing a whole bunch of things together. We’ve looked at I – VI – II – V – I progressions, we’ve looked at II – V – I progressions, we’ve looked at playing chords up the neck regardless of what type of chord we are playing and we’ve looked at synonyms; using chords for other chords. What we are going to do in this lesson is look at a I – VI – II – V progression, but we are not going to stay in one position. We are going to play the same progression all the way up the neck which is important regarding the understanding of guitar chord progressions. It’s all fairly self explanatory so I don’t really need to talk much about it. If, however, you don’t know what a I – VI – II – V is then probably the next video will be a great help in understanding exactly what this all means.

We have actually covered this before, but we did not cover it in as much detail so as I say, check out the next video for information on that subject. This is part of the narration from the video above. Watch the whole video to learn more and guitar chord progressions.

Chord Definition

Understanding How To Manipulate A Chord Definition

Many people only know a chord by one name and the ability to change a chord definition so it can be used in many creative ways is vital knowledge when considering drop two voicings. In this lesson, Ged Brockie goes over the ideas presented in his book for GMI “Drop Two Voicings Uncovered” and shows how we can use synonyms to create a force multiplier for our chords. Make sure to watch the full video on this lesson as well as downloading the free resources which are available right below this text.

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Lesson Five – Using Synonyms To Change A Chord Definition

This is a partial transcription of the text found within the video above. This lesson is about synonyms, or at least, partly about that. We are going to be looking at how we can use chordal synonyms to expand upon the chord choices we have for a given measure. So we can create more movement in the chord progressions that this course has been looking at, so far anyway. This is the drop two voicings course which accompanies the book “Drop Two Voicings Uncovered”. Now, if you’re just watching this and you don’t have the book that’s okay because there is free material for you to enjoy in each of the lessons over all thirteen videos. If you do have the book, then obviously you are going to get a whole lot more out of it and I would encourage you to go through each and every one of the video lessons along with the “Drop Two Voicings Uncovered” book.

So, what is a synonym? Well, fundamentally it’s a way of expressing a range of notes in different ways and as such alters the chord definition that a chord has. In this actual lesson we are looking at the progression of a II – V – I and we are extending the use of the I chord at the end of the progression. In the previous lesson we had a II – V – I which ended in a major seventh. We are going to add a major sixth. Now that doesn’t mean that you have got to go away and learn a whole new range of major sixth chords.

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Turning The b7 Chord Into A Dominant Ninth

Looking to spice up your dominant chords? The dominant ninth is a must go to chord, but in this lesson you’ll learn how to play the chord four ways, not just one right up the guitar fretboard. To get the most from this lesson, watch the video (which can be expanded to full screen) and download the free materials below.

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Lesson Four – Changing a b7 To A Dominant Ninth

This is a partial transcription of the text found within the video above. Welcome back, I really do hope that you’ve been enjoying the videos in the series and I really do hope that you gone through all the videos and that you’ve watched and learned from them. If you have done that, then that’s fantastic. If you’re just dipping in and looking at things I’d encourage you to go back and look at the other videos. There are plenty of great ideas within them and everything in this course of videos builds from something else. So, you really will learn a lot and this lesson will mean a whole lot more if you’ve looked at those previous lessons. So whether you have or you haven’t, this video is all about dominant ninths and how to create them from a b7 chord.

So, everyone likes playing ninth chords. You may know a ninth chord, you may know this one here. Everyone knows this, it’s used in blues, it’s used in jazz, it’s used in pop music and sometimes even rock music. Certainly used in funk as well, parts of it. I just want to talk about these chords in relation to this course; this thirteen video course which is all about drop two voicings. I’m not going to go into what drop two voicings are, if your scratching your head about that then please go back and look at earlier videos. Specifically lesson one which goes into depth as to what a drop two voicing are and why we use them.

What is a dominant ninth and why do we even want them. I mean, what is wrong with a plain old dominant seventh chord? Now we have been playing in the previous lessons, we’ve been looking how to play that chord in progression. For more on the b7 chord please watch the video shown above for the full narration.

Chord Progressions

Chord Progressions Every Guitarist Should Know

For many guitar players, chord progressions are a bit of a dark art. If you have wondered how some guitar players just seem to know what is coming next in a song then this is a lesson you need to watch and learn from. The video below is backed up by free resources for you download underneath this text.

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Lesson Three – Playing Through The II – V – I Chord Progressions

This is a partial transcription of the text found within the video above. Hello and welcome to this lesson, the third in a series of thirteen lessons which cover drop two voicings. If you are just dropping by and you have not seen the other lessons I would encourage you to have a look at them. This whole course goes along side or is aligned to the book “Drop Two Voicings Uncovered” which has been released by GMI and for the people who have the book, this is a way of seeing deep into the workings of the chords that are given. For other people, it’s a great way to get your hands on some free resources and why not.

This lesson is about the II – V – I progression and there is a large part of the book devoted to this progression. If the question is why? Well, in the musical literature, not just of jazz, but pop music, rock music, even classical music and many other genres, the II – V – I progression is a cornerstone progression used time and time again.

Now what we are going to learn here, is how to connect the chords we have learned in previous lessons in an effective manner and this is called voice leading. You will see on the screen now some chords and all I wanted to do was to demonstrate that with good voice leading, you can have really effective resolutions. The II – V – I is a very powerful progression because of the way the actual root movement moves; up a fourth or down a fifth. Within the twentieth century, this has been as popular a progression as any of the other chord progressions used.