Guitar Chords Content

Lesson 1: Triads

• Playing Triads: Root Position Major Triads on 4-3-2 and 3-2-1
• Minor Triads
• sus Chords

Lesson 2: Triad Inversions/Other Triad Qualities

• Inversions of Triads: Up the Fretboard
• Inversions of Triads: Across the Fretboard
• Augmented and Diminished Triads

Lesson 3: Barre Chords

• Power Chords: Big Sound, Two Tones
• Barre Chords: Big Sound, Three or Four Tones
• Chord Quality Identification

Lesson 4: Seventh Chords: Drop 2s

• Drop 2: Four Adjacent Strings
• One Thing in All Keys: Dominant 7th Drop 2 Voicings
• All Things in One Key: Other 7th Chord Qualities

Lesson 5: Drop 2 Crossovers

• 9th Chords
• Drop 2 Inversions
• Interpreting Lead Sheets

Lesson 6: Summary 1

• Chord Substitutions #1
• Rhythmic Kicks in Guitar Charts
• Ear Training with Drop 2s

Lesson 7: Seventh Chords: Drop 3s

• Drop 3, Bottom String, Skip String, then Three Adjacent Strings
• One Thing in All Keys: Dom 7 Drop 3s
• All Things in One Key: Other 7th Chord Qualities

Lesson 8: More Drop 3

• Diminished Voicings
• Dominant 9 Voicings-Another Use for min7(b5)
• Dominant 13 Voicings and Chord Tensions
• Using the Chords-the Blues

Lesson 9: Using the Chords: Mixing Drop 2 and Drop 3 Voicings

• Maj 6/min 6
• Alteration of Dominant b9, #9
• Alteration of Dominant b9, b13

Lesson 10: Guide Tone Chords

• R37 and R73
• Small Voicing, Big Sound

Lesson 11: Triads over Bass Notes

• Triads over Bass Notes
• Inverting Drop 2 and Drop 3
• Inversions of G7, G-7, Gmaj7

Lesson 12: Putting It All Together/Final Project

• Chord Substitutions #2
• Inversions of G-7(b5)
• Other Voicing Formulae
• Harmonizing Melodies with Inversions