Advance Guitar Chords Content

Lesson 1: Inversions of Seventh Chords, Triads, and Open Triads

• Review of Seventh Chord Shapes
• Seventh Chord Summary: The Big Seven
• Chord Spelling Etude
• Drop-2 Drop-3
• Seventh Chord Inversions: Major 7 and Dominant 7
• Chord Melody: Harmonizing Melodies with Triads
• Open Major and Minor Triads

Lesson 2: Chord Melody and More Open Triads

• Chord Melody: Harmonizing All Scale Notes
• Diatonic Open Triads
• Inversions of Triads: Open Diminished Shapes
• Inversions of Triads: Open Augmented Shapes

Lesson 3: More Inversions, Crossovers, Chord Melody, and More Open Triads

• Inversions of Seventh Chords: Minor 7 and Minor 7b5
• Crossovers 1 C and F Blues
• Working with Diatonic Inversions: Drop 2 Chords on Strings 5, 4, 3, and 2
• Chord Melody "House of the Rising Sun"
• Open Triads with I IV V I

Lesson 4: Fingerstyle Patterns and the C–A–G–E–D Approach

• Basic Fingerstyle Patterns
• Travis Picking Basics
• C–A–G–E–D Approach to Chordal Playing
• Chord Melody Tune: Avalon by Vincent Rose

Lesson 5: Harmonic Minor Voicings and Bossa Nova Fingerstyle Patterns

• Harmonic Minor Voicings
• Fingerstyle Patterns: Basic Brazilian Rhythm Patterns
• Crossover/Transfer Example
• Chord Melody

Lesson 6: Melodic Minor and Advanced Chord Substitutions

• Melodic Minor Diatonic Chords
• Melodic Minor Harmonies Used for Chord Melody
• Major 6/9 Voicings: Substituting Dominant 7sus 4 Chords for Major Chord Sounds
• Range Considerations for Chord Voicings
• Crossover Tune: "Back Home Again in Indiana"

Lesson 7: Melodic Minor Harmonies and Modal Voicings

• Use of Melodic Minor Derived Harmonies
• Modal Voicings: Quartal Harmonies
• Inversions of Maj7/Maj6/Min6/Dim7/Min7b5

Lesson 8: Open Tunings: Slash Chords Revisited and More

• Slash Chords and Inversions of Slash Chords
• CAGED Part 2: Use of Capo
• Drop D Tuning: "Dear Prudence"
• Open G Tuning: "Start Me Up"; Basic Chord Shapes
• Chet Atkins/Jerry Reed Style
• Harmonizing Melodies with Quartal and Slash Chord Harmonies
• Rhythmic Interpretation

Lesson 9: Major and Minor Bebop Diatonic Scales and Alternate Tunings

• Scale Descriptions: Major/Minor Bop
• Harmonizing Bop Scales
• Fingerstyle Patterns with Bop Scales

Lesson 10: Harmonic Major and Voice Leading through Chord Scales

• Harmonic Major Harmonies
• Voiceleading through the Major Scale (Goodrick-Style Interval Sets)

Lesson 11: Voicings from Symmetrical Scales

• Chords from the Symmetrical Diminished Scale
• Chords from the Symmetrical Augmented Scale
• Voiceleading through Melodic Minor with Interval Sets

Lesson 12: Putting It All Together: Summary

• Voiceleading through Major, Melodic Minor, Harmonic Minor, and Harmonic Major
• Rhythm Chord Basic Shapes
• Chord Melody Final