• Posts Tagged ‘harmony’

    What is a Seventh Chord

    by  • January 12, 2011 • Music theory • 1 Comment

    My last post about constructing the chords got positive feedback and seemed to help people. So I will continue. I was talking about the principles of chord construction and more specifically about triads. Triads are theoretically the simplest chords but it doesn’t mean that they are the most easy ones to play on the guitar. [...]

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    How to Construct the Chords

    by  • January 8, 2011 • Music theory • 4 Comments

    The most common way to start off with the chords on guitar is to take a chord book or any simple online chord builder and just memorize them. I works well until the 3-chord songs are your ultimate goal. However, if you start wondering how to play a chord melody or how to find the [...]

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