HOW TO BUILD CHORDS - PART 1 – Triad Building Blocks (Chord Theory)

A crystal clear guide to chord theory in 3 parts, showing you how to build chords and how to create chord extensions. Starting in part 1 with thorough understanding of the basic triads like minor, major, augmented and diminished. Get full knowledge of the basis of all chords in the common tertian chord theory. Expand you knowledge in part 2 with a crystal clear explanation of 7th, 9th, 11th and 13th chords. In part 3 we end this chord extravaganza with some alternative, yet awesome and beautiful uncommon shapes to create a whole lot of versatile and ambiguous sounds that can also be deployed to create modal chord sequences and fusion like rock music.

If you want to dive into the triads used in advanced situations, please take a look at my tutorial about this subject:    • TRIAD ARPEGGIOS over 6 strings for MODES a...  

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