How to Connect Guitar Chords with Scales

if you've ever been on Craigslist then you know the missed connections section is the saddest thing on the internet which is really saying something but in music miss connections can be just as sad now what I mean by that when you have like any kind of core like we'll just take a really easy one a C chord to a a minor chord there is a note in the scale that you're in they can connect those two and it can really it help making your make your make your playing sound a little bit different more exciting give you more options on things to do so in that key it happens to be in this Beno right here 2a so anytime you go from a CoA you can always connect them with that note in between which can sound good sometimes it can sound annoying if it gets overused but there's an easy way to find all the notes you can possibly potentially connect chords with and it all comes down to skills and it's actually a really easy one because you already know all these notes anyway isn't and you know all these chords and it'll make more sense once you see it kind of laid out so we're gonna go in the key of C and the chords in the key of C are C major D minor E minor F major G major and a minor those are the six main chords and I'll leave a link in the comment section if you want to see a bit on how to find those and understand why those are the six chords but we're just gonna assume you know those are the chords and see mine now our C major so in that same scale the notes are e f g a b c d e f g ABCD so you can kind of think of it as a handshape and really all you have to do is just get this one section of notes and get this down F G you don't really even have to think about them I mean it helps to know the names of the notes but you don't have to think about them as like an F and E and a G just think of them as like open first fret third fret and the 2nd string the a string would be open two three open two three open to open one three open you can use any of those notes to connect to chords so let's take chords that are farther apart than just see an a let's take a gene and maybe walk it walk it all the way up to me and when I say walk like bass players like take a walk what that means is really just kind of like connecting these chords with notes so I guess kind of think like a bass player actually no I take that back never ever think like a bass player we're going to we're going to take this G and walk in to a D so we could take a G now the note after G is a ABC so you start with the G you and it kind of acts as like a glue to connect those chords together and you don't even have to connect different chords to each other you can use just the knowledge of knowing these notes to kind of use with N one chord so for example let's just take a regular C major chord let's focus on the D string and the C major so by that little scale that we learned we know the D string is open two three now get the notes to B D F but more importantly is how you use those notes within a C chord you can actually just do this right now see you in a C chord my middle fingers on the two second fret of the D string so I'm just kind of swapping out all the notes on that string I'm just taking one string at a time it can be kind of overwhelming thinking of all six strings and the different notes on each of them so just take one string at a time and just having like play around with it so and then maybe when you get really comfortable knowing that one string try a difference right let's try the nice turnout hey is ABC open two three any chord that you use you can even use that D minor chord now every time you do this you're really making a different chord like for the C you're actually going from a c2 as C suspended for to a C suspended to you don't really even have to think of it that way just think of altering different chords and then connecting them to each other so I'll take a see it I'll alter it with this now you can do these in order ascending or descending like if I was going to go from an E minor chord all the way up to a c4 I can go in order so you the mg ABC backward or you can just kind of skip around like you don't always have to go up and down and that's kind of like the value in scales in general you don't always have to descend or descend a lot of people will tell you to practice them like this but that's just kind of like to get that shape in your mind to really it use scales in a way that isn't boring you wanna be able to jump around within the scale so like instead of an a minor going back to it you can kind of take a miner and play around a little bit and then just really learn all these notes and then alter the chords you do know and you can do them with pull-offs and hammer-ons to make them sound a little flashier there I'm just taking a d-minor I'm altering the high E string which is open one career d-minor coop and every time I do this I'm making a new core but the name of the court isn't important it's just does it sound good now I also want to kind of talk about how you can use bar chords and different scale shapes to do that on an electric guitar but first let's take a break look at an actual Craigslist misconnection I would like to chat more to the cashier I met at the above store today I commented on your figure as we chatted during my purchase let me know if it's you by telling me how you thought you were gaining a pound or two and what happened when I asked if the pan I was buying was magnetic and how it affected you what if the pan was magnetic and how it affects you like how magnetism affections I understand has that ever worked once anyways Craigslist connections check it out oh it's good for laughs now electric guitar we're gonna do is we're gonna use it different chord shapes you probably already know in the same key key C is the a minor shape okay they probably already know this shape that's just starting and we're only gonna do the first three string so five seven eight on he five seven eight five seven so this a mine and this stacks up right next to C major which now my middle fingers on the eighth fret every finger gets its own friend eight ten seven eight ten seven nine ten so two chord shapes are to scale shapes or use those same thing so we're going to start with an E minor chord we're then we're going to go to a minor we're gonna go to E minor and then to C major up here now what I'm going to do is I'm going to take some of the rest of this chord shape and C and inflect it kind of like a little Jimmy chili peppers thing all right so now here's how we're going to connect these instead just going me to end we're gonna add some of the stuff we've learned we can still use the open open one for you you can still use those in combination this and this so we'll take an E minor I'm doing is I'm inflecting this a minor chord with these notes in a scale and if I want to I can add this G note which remember efg in between zone in any of these cars I can use in between a there's the Beano right there so the fg8 so I'm just using scales all I know about is only three strings kind of add so one two three four five six seven eight four two five eight seven four five eight seven I'm skipping some of these I'm in the C shape I can kind of just slide into the fifth note one two three four five and then maybe if I want to do like a flat seven like you back your regular six major seven so I'm just using it all of these scales and they're just really simple ones you probably already know the minor scale and the major scale to connect the chords and to play within those chords and thus I'm getting a much different guitars on the display yeah so all these shapes are not becoming representative of the chord that I'm using so never miss those connections ever again

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Length: 10min 52sec (652 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 06 2015