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Hi Everyone,

This video is for everyone! Whether you just arrived or you've been here a while.

I'm trying something new here. For some of you, this might be review and for others this might be an exciting new venture into creativity. The idea with this video is that everyone is welcome.

You'll see me advertising my Patreon a few times because I made this for YouTube, but I thought you all would really enjoy it as well. 

The idea here is simple: Get comfortable with an E Major and A Major chord all over the fingerboard using this jam track and the note name scratch paper attached below, or Graeme's online note name scratch paper.

There is little mention of the CAGED System or root notes or anything too specific, because the main goal of this video is to learn how to be creative and explorative with voicings all over the fingerboard.

If you wanna chat about this lesson, post a video or audio of some cool voicings you've found, or just some note name scratch paper markings of some interesting voicings you discovered, consider posting about it in the community forum.

If you ARE new here and you found this fun, consider checking out Music Theory for Guitar to understand how this works!

Jam Tracks for this video:
90 BPM (original)
75 BPM (slower)
60 BPM (slowest)

Other helpful links:
Scott's Recommended Lesson Plan
Searchable Lesson Archive
How to Join the Community Forum
Scott's Jam Tracks
Scott's Main YouTube Channel

Files

Playing With Chords- E01_v05.mov

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Comments

Mark Fletcher

You are very gracious Scott. You are a real blessing to us!

Pete Dawkins

Hi Scott, I recently joined because your rig showing the notes as you play is truly unique and an enormous help to me. I've been learning for 2 1/2 years now and found a number of great teachers and lessons, but the one thing about great teachers is they play great guitar and for me its hard sometimes to actually see what they are doing (playing) like watching a magician, so your lessons fix that - Excellent Thank you