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Confused about altered and extended guitar chords? Here’s the theory behind them – and how they can supercharge your songwriting
On guitar we’d ... is a very well-known chord, but it’s interesting to look at it from this perspective. If we take it from low to high, we see: root (E) - major 3rd (G#) - dominant 7th ...
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Get more out of one of guitar’s most important shapes with 5 chords that demystify the dominant 7th
Raising the open third string to G# at the 1st fret makes this an E7 chord. By combining the root (C), 3rd (E), 5th (G) major 7th (B) and duplicate 3rd (E), we create a Cmaj7. To change this to a ...
This easy chord trick appears on classic songs by the Beatles, the Eagles, Paul Simon and Passenger
Jesse Colin Young, who sang one of the signature songs of the 1960s counterculture, the Youngbloods’ “Get Together,” before ...