How to Spice Up Your Rhythm Playing with 6th Intervals
Spicing Up Rhythm Parts with 6th Intervals A great way to come up with awesome-sounding rhythm guitar parts is combining chord strums with melodic lines in 6ths. You can hear an amazing example of this in John Mayer’s song “Belief” Jimi Hendrix is another guitarist who came up with cool rhythm guitar parts using 6ths. … How to Spice Up Your Rhythm Playing with 6th Intervals
Chord Masterclass: Use Chords You Know to Create 9th Chords
Use Chords You Know to Create 9th Chords An easy way to add a 9th to a chord is by playing the chord in the scale that is up 3 letters from that chord, as a 7th chord. I know this sounds complicated when explained like this, but the examples will clear it all up. … Chord Masterclass: Use Chords You Know to Create 9th Chords
Chord Masterclass: Drop 2 Voicings On Guitar
Drop 2 Voicings On Guitar This is a continuation of last week’s blog about drop voicings. What Are Drop Voicings? Here are all the chord fingerings of all the drop 2 voicings in the key of C Move the Cmaj7 fingerings up 5 frets for Fmaj7 chords. Move the Am7 fingerings up 5 frets for … Chord Masterclass: Drop 2 Voicings On Guitar
The Jimi Hendrix Chord
The E7#9 Jimi Hendrix Chord Some people would call this a “jazz chord” 
We musicians of course (should) know better: we know there is no such thing called “jazz chords”. There’s only stacking 3rd intervals. When you keep stacking 3rds above the 7th in the chord, you get chords with tensions, which jazz musicians … The Jimi Hendrix Chord
How To Improvise with Dim7 Arpeggios over V7
Improvising with Dim7 Arpeggios over V7 A couple of weeks ago I posted a free lesson here about the dim7 arpeggio. If you need a quick recap on this, check out the dim7 arpeggio fingerings here: The Dim7 Arpeggio I also wrote in the past about the 3 ways dim7 chords are used in music. … How To Improvise with Dim7 Arpeggios over V7
