Learn chords – build C major harmony with Larry Mitchell lesson – 10:04 min

In this lesson Larry Mitchell takes you through building all the chords in the key of C major. He uses this exercises for warm up and more. Can also use this for rhythm exercises as well. If you harmonize the C major scale you get the following seven chords – C major, D minor, E minor, F major, G7, A minor, and B diminished. All the chords are built from the notes in a C major scale – C, D, E, F, G, A, and B. Something else you can try to apply this two-note lead lines that outline the chords – Larry demonstrates. So much that you can do with these chords. You can try to build the chords in other keys as well. C is the only major key with no sharps or flats. Give some of these a try and stay creative and experiment wit them – rock on!

Chord embellishing on an electric guitar inspired by an Ed Sheeran acoustic song – 5:39 min

In this lesson Dave Nassie was inspired by an acoustic song by popular artist Ed Sheeran. He then drew inspiration from the acoustic and put it on the electric and spins out a lesson on chordal embellishments on electric guitar – interesting for sure! Dave teaches embellishing chords in different ways to get unique sounds. Dave starts off teaching an E type power chord and how to add notes to it to create melody. Then going to a C type chord he teaches ways to embellish that chord. So start thinking melody and notes around the area of a given chord. Try different notes and techniques as per the lesson and find what sounds pleasing to your ear – let your ear guide you. Dave adds natural harmonics on that C chord with his pinky for a cool effect. Then Dave goes into a D chord and adds some cool doublestops. Then a different voicing when back to the Em chord. So you see how Dave changes up the chord voicing or embellishments each time around. Use this lesson as a template to examine other chords and progressions you are working on and think outside the box and embellish – add these to your playing arsenal and keep up all that hard work on that guitar. Rock on!

Learn EZ chord melody building with rhythms – build progressions! – 8:04 min

Chord melody made easy by Dave Nassie. Learn how to make chord progressions and come up with some wild chord shapes. Dave teaches this lesson in the key of G. He first shows you one shape of the G major scale and also teaches the notes in the scale – G major = G,A,B,C,D,E,F# – Dave then pick notes out of that scale and how to embellish these notes and chords. Basically you will learn how to come up with melodic ideas based off the notes and chords in a given key – here we use G major. Dave teaches this with very little theory so anyone can learn from this lesson and this lesson gets the creative juices flowing and gets you playing music fast. Try these ideas and chord extensions and use this lesson as a template to springboard other chord, progression and song ideas – enjoy and keep on rocking!