This is less of a lesson and more of a demonstration. In this video, I'm messing around with a little groove on Logic Pro X (recording software) and walking through a few different ways to approach chord voicings for the rhythm part. Its a little more informal compared to my typical videos, but I think its important to get informal because making music is often an explorative, informal, creative process. Let's just have fun with rhythm parts.
Read MoreIn this lesson we'll take the G shaped chord and move it through this order:
Major
Minor
Diminished
Maj7
Dom7
Min7
Half Diminished
Fully Diminished
From there we'll discuss how easy or difficult it is to use this chord as a movable shape and which forms work best. Sometimes they are easy to move around and easy to manipulate and sometimes they are just plain weird. In this case, the G shape is pretty weird.
Read MoreIn this lesson well take the E shaped chord and move the chord through this order:
Major
Minor
Diminished
Maj7
Dom7
Min7
Half Diminished
Fully Diminished
From there we'll discuss how easy or difficult it is to use this chord as a movable shape and which forms work best. Sometimes they are easy to move around and easy to manipulate and sometimes they are just plain weird.
Read MoreIn this lesson well take the A shaped chord and move the chord through this order:
Major
Minor
Diminished
Maj7
Dom7
Min7
Half Diminished
Fully Diminished
From there we'll discuss how easy or difficult it is to use this chord as a movable shape and which forms work best. Sometimes they are easy to move around and easy to manipulate and sometimes they are just plain weird.
Read MoreIn this video we talk about the C shape. It's a weird shape to morph into minor, diminished, dominant, etc., which is why you don't see it too often. It does make a nice movable dominant shape and a cool movable Major7 shape. The fully diminished shape is also nicely movable. Everything else is either awkward, or involves some finger strategy. The exercise of morphing these shapes is really valuable for understanding how the guitar works and you might find yourself in a situation where one of these shapes is exactly what you're looking for. From here I'll move into the more comfortable and common E and A shapes and end with the G shape.
Read MoreA quick review and applications for the D shape Rubik’s cube. Here I have a little fun with D shaped chords and some recording software. I want to give people a sense of how to use these Rubik's Cube lessons before I roll out more of them. The C Shape Rubik's Cube lesson is on the way and eventually I'll get through all of the CAGED shapes and talk about some ninja rhythm guitar stuff because, well, we've hardly covered rhythm guitar and its one of my favorite things to play and teach!
Read MoreThis is the start of something cool. A way to start recognizing chord shapes in all their various forms: Major, Minor, Diminished, Major7, Minor7, Dominant7, Half Diminished, Fully Diminished.
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