Now we’re into the minor 7th chords.
The minor 7th chord is built off the 1st,
3rd, 5th and 7th degrees of the dorian,
phrygian and aeolian mode. It also can be
found in the dorian flat two mode of melodic
minor and the dorian sharp four mode of
harmonic minor.
So let’s take that dominant chord that we
learned a while ago. Now, to convert the
dominant chord to minor 7, we only have to
change one thing, and that’s lowering the
major 3rd to the minor 3rd, a half step.
So the E to E flat. There’s our C minor 7 chord.
Now, let’s take our first inversion on
dominant 7. Again, we’re going to lower
the E to E flat. Now this particular
chord could also be thought of as an E
flat major 6 chord, root form, because
we had the E flat, the 5th of E flat,
the 6th and the major 3rd of E flat.
First inversion, minor 7th is also a
major 6 chord.
Let’s take the second inversion of dominant 7,
we’re going to lower the third down a half
step and bingo, we have a minor 7. Let’s take
the third inversion, dominant 7. Again, we
find the third in the chord, which is E, lower
it. There’s the minor 7.
What about a minor 7 sus 2? To create a minor 7
sus 2, we just lower the E flat to D, the second
note in the scale. Here we have a C minor 7 sus 2.
If you wanted to substitute a minor 7 sus 2 chord
in place of a minor 7, you have to be careful
when you’re doing it. In other words, you have
to know when that minor 7 is functioning as a
two chord or a six chord. Because if the minor 7
is functioning, say, as a 3 chord, you wouldn’t
substitute a minor 7 sus 2 in its place because
the 3 chord comes from the phrygian mode.
The phrygian mode has the flat second in there
instead of the natural second. So just be aware of that.
The minor 7 sus 2 is also the same chord as a
dominant 7 sus 2, or 7 sus 2. Because you take
this dominant 7th chord and lower the third down
to the second here.
Now, let’s take the first inversion of a minor 7
and change it into sus 2. That’s a nice chord.
Now second inversion, you lower the third down to
the second. Third inversion, lower the E flat down
to D. Now, this chord could be thought of as not
only the third inversion of a C minor 7 sus 2,
but also a B flat major 6 at 9, because we have
the B flat, the major third, the 6th and the 9th
of B flat.
You’ll find that chords have many names just
depending on the context.
Sol Philcox is back! He’s not only amazing at “Chicken-Pickin Style”, but
he’s a heck of a blues player too, with a deep bag of secrets to share with you.
Here’s a sample clip from the upcoming “Blues Master Class” DVDs.
See how that works? You can use that sliding technique. This is almost like a country-type thing. Let me just show you this one little trick of how to combine slides to get from one point to another.
You’ll be hammering-on from this note; 6th fret. We’re out of our pentatonic position here, just in case you’re confused. We’ve actually gone down from it. Here we went up; here we’re going down from our — going 6th fret.
So we’ve got our 6th fret, we’re going to hammer-on on the A-string to the 8th fret. Then, we’re going to slide this up. We’re not going to re-pick the note, we’re just going to slide right after the hammer-on. We’re going to go from 8 to 10.
Let’s carry it on by playing our 7th to our root, 8th fret to 10th fret, D-string. Then, we’re going to play our 3rd on the 8th fret on the G-string. We’re not going to tweak it; we’re just going to play it, and we’re going to do it exactly what we did with this part.
Notice it’s the same notes, just in different order. So jumping between them by going, that’s our little bridge right there. Then, we can finish it off by going from our 7th to our root on the B-string, getting out of that pentatonic position. The way we did the first time around. And that is the same as…
Same note, different octave.
Now, that’s not so much a lick. You wouldn’t want to play that in a solo because it sounds too much like an exercise. It sounds kind of routine. But if you break it up a little bit and kind of go back on yourself and then jump forward in the lick, you can get this kind of thing. You can go back, like completely reverse it.
That’s how you build speed by playing blues. It’s not fast picking. I mean, that sounds great when you’re playing rock or metal or whatever, but you lose some of the articulation; you lose that human element when it gets too mechanical and you’re just playing every note with the pick.
Like I said earlier, just utilize these bends, the slides and the hammer-on to get the most out of these licks and build up speed as well. If you want to play fast.
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Here, Jimmy shows you the “Big City Blues”. I’m just including a performance
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This is just a small taste of the many killer blues styles you’ll learn
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Here, Jimmy shows you a rockabilly beat. Notice how he breaks down exactly how to play this. I think Jimmy is a great teacher because he shows you exactly what he’s doing.
He did go over a similar feel in “Soul of Acoustic Guitar”, but there are some key differences and unique licks that work on the electric. Check it out:
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You’re gonna love this really cool, hip, swingin’ electric blues feel.
This is just a small taste of the many killer blues styles you’ll learn
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