Extended Chords Lesson

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Welcome to the beautiful world of extended chords! Today we'll explore the unlimited potential of chord building.

In this simple piece, we'll take the basic chords of the track and add to them a few extra notes to make then sound deeper and more melodic. To do that, we need to know which key we're in so that once we have the basic chords, we can pick within the scale some aditional notes.

This lesson is built around the following simple chords:

Am - F - G - Em
F - G - Am - Am
Bb - C - F - G
Am - F - G - G
Am

The previous chord progression is in the key of Am (see chart below) except for the Bb chord which is taken from the key of F Maj (see chart).

The goal in this lesson is to create new extended chords using the basic chords above along with the following charts as a guideline as of which possible notes we can add to the chords.

Have fun!

Lesson Questions, Feedback & Comments

Kristofer Dahl	24th January 2008
GMC Founder & Rocker	Wow this is beautiful David + I really need to catch up on my chord knowledge, thanks!

DeepRoots	24th January 2008
Member	Soo beautiful David, my playing is really missing this at the moment, Thanks!

Bogdan Radovic	24th January 2008
Bass Instructor	Great tune and chords there and very expressively (i hope its the word I'm looking for) played !! Beautiful backing too..

coffeeman	24th January 2008
Member	Beautiful lesson, David. Never seen you so concentrated.

PacmanProductions Reborn	24th January 2008
Member	Daaaannnggg.... now thats what i call feeling.... i was trying to make a progression similar to this on acoustic for practice last night... WELL I GUESS I FOUND IT!!!

Marcus Lavendell	24th January 2008
Instructor	Beautiful!

kyldeee	24th January 2008
Member	This is Beautiful David, I'm gonna have to learn this one.. Thanks

boy_sets_fire7	24th January 2008
Member	wonderful!

Toni Suominen	24th January 2008
Instructor	Great lesson David!

Muris Varajic	24th January 2008
Instructor	Sounds wonderful Dave,love the progression!!

The Spartan	24th January 2008
Member	Hey David,awesome lesson but what program did u use to create the backing? I'm talking about the violin ensemble btw

Maximus	24th January 2008
Member	Good job David.

at lights end	24th January 2008
Member	great! my hands could do with a bit of a stretch.

Pablo Vazquez	24th January 2008
Instructor	excellent!! Good work!

AndyCH	24th January 2008
Member	Really great! I love it.

The Uncreator	24th January 2008
Fire Up The Blades, Moderator	Beautiful, perhaps a look at something on one of your future records?

stratman33	24th January 2008
Member	Beautiful, to bad my hands are to small to play it

Fran	24th January 2008
Member	Interesting, and cool backing too

David Wallimann	24th January 2008
Instructor	Thanks so much for all your comments. For the violins, I used East West Symphonic orchestra. And no, this is not taken from my next album, although it could be... ;-) More to come on that soon...

Gerardo Siere	24th January 2008
Instructor	Nice

Dejan Farkas	24th January 2008
Instructor	Beautiful harmonies

Hisham Al-Sanea	24th January 2008
Instructor	nice lesson walliman

Juan M. Valero	25th January 2008
Instructor	cool lesson David !!! Danger, some this chords are a bit difficult to play !!!! Another question... Do you have a new haircut ???

preownedguitar	25th January 2008
Member	Reminds me of Chinese or Japanese foreign film music. I like it.

RIP Dime	25th January 2008
Member	Really nice. I just gotto say, dear god your hands are huge, makes that Parker look like a short scale!

David Wallimann	25th January 2008
Instructor	Haha! Thanks guys.. Juan, It's not a new hair cut, but I straightened my hair that day with my wife's hair straightner... :-)

Carlos Carrillo	21st February 2008
Instructor	Hey David!!!good job!!!Great lesson...Very creative...

RIP Dime	4th March 2008
Member	Just started learning this, and it really opened my eyes to the fact that I can make up many different ways to play any chord, this is gonna really spice up my songs. Thanks David!

malvax	19th March 2008
Member	Compliments, very very nice!!

Melodicintenions	4th April 2008
Member	that was for the Love of god Steve vai Worthy material in his balad state of playing amazing