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Feb 1 2009, 06:22 PM
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QUOTE (utak3r @ Jan 4 2009, 11:20 AM)  Oh man, I had prepared a full bag of questions about chords, after reading a whole stuff about scales and single tones... well, it's empty for a while now  fantastic job, it was a big lack in my knowledge  just a quick & simple question: Let's take we ain't sticked into power chords.... should I play in the second place something like: --- ?? It builds a good tension, a first thought is some old intro from one of Metallica's songs... That's actually a flattened 5th, so technically not a power chord, but great for building an evil and tense kid of sound! QUOTE (vampire14 @ Jan 23 2009, 11:39 AM) in the last paragraph you mentioned getting a chord progression first and than write your riffs on the scale that fits. but how do i know what scale fits? how do i do this process the other way round? You can figure it out through a process of elimination! Arrange all of your chords and pull the notes out and order them. That gives you a list of notes and if you know your scales you shoould be able to fit one to the notes you have with a little work! QUOTE (Shiho @ Feb 1 2009, 11:17 AM) Hey Guys, First I wanted to say that I'm a admirer of Andrew's Professional Work, here Thanks a lot. But I got a question referring to the Em Chord of the D-Major scale. I tried to figure out the notes myself using your "formula". So after getting done the D-Major chord I came up with the E Minor Chord. If I'm right it consists of the three notes E Gb/F# and B. So if I wanted to try out the Chord on the guitar it must've got the tab (If I got that right): -----2-- -------- -------- -----2-- -----2-- --------- But I'm familiar to playing it without the thin E string : -------- -------- -------- -----2-- -----2-- --------- Why is it a Em, when one of the 3 notes of which it consists isn't played? Is it a power chord then? It also could be true that I've made any mistake. If so - Please help me to fix it I'm looking forward to your answers. See you soon Not quite right - The scale of D major is D E F# G A B C# D To make a chord from this scale with a root note of E we start at E, skip a note, pick a note skip a note and pick a note, which gives us E G B - these are the notes for E minor So, looking at the way you normally play it (which is correct) from the low E string up you have: E B E G B E All of which are in the chord The not you had on the high E string, F#, whilst in the scale is not part of a basic E minor chord. In fact it is a 9th, which would make the first chord you showed an Em9 - nothing wrong with that, it's still in the scale, just not the chord you were going for
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Feb 1 2009, 06:40 PM
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But is the G of the D-Major scale not the 3rd? And following your formula ("Minor 1,b3,5") the 3rd has to be flattened, hasnt it? So why do you get a G instead of a Gb?
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Feb 14 2009, 11:53 PM
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QUOTE (GrannyKiller @ Feb 11 2009, 11:55 AM) Actually it would be an Em+9 chord, since there's no b7 in there. Hope I got it right...  Yes, Em+9, sorry. -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
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