Posts Tagged ‘chords’

Songwriter Guitar Chords in D

Monday, May 11th, 2009

Here’s  another set of chords, this time focusing on a Dsus2 shape that makes a great songwriting home base. Try adding different bass notes for the Bm11 and Gsus2. Other bass notes will work for walk downs and other keys.

About that Bm11: chords on guitar often need to drop a note to make room for others. The first or second note to go is usually the V, I think because we hear it even when it isn’t there. This Bm11 doesn’t have an F# – the notes are BDADE – so it won’t show up in most chord dictionaries.

Once again, the graphic is linked to a much larger version.

Guitar Chords in D

Guitar Chords in D

Guitar Chords in G

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

The following graphic is an oversized set of chords, those most frequent in the key of G.  The overlayed dots are the G major scale, and you may notice that the overlayed scale does not change.  So, this shows us that all of these chords are comprised soley of notes from the G major scale.  More to come…

Guitar Chords in G