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Don't over think it..my advice is play the open strings and hit the the 3rd fret a lot..there's good reason why it's known as "The Bluesman's Friend"...listen to some Mississppi hill country music, a lot of it is all one chord open tuning..it's all about the feel and the groove. Listen to Robert Belfour and Junior Kimbrough and stop worrying about chords and scales.
The "D business" is helping by showing a simple cord progression that could be played up the neck. Taking two cord forms that can be easily learned. Then showing what the numerical numbers would represent All this within the context of playing within cords that would sound right in a standard 1, 4, 5 progression.
I then posted a song Scruggy could listen to that had the very cord progression. I did this so even if Scruggy didn’t have a fretted CGB he could still hear it. I then assured Scruggy this will all come together for him.
My intent is to help Scruggy.
Scruggy, I did not do a great job, but I did just post a video in the video section on how to use the Roman Numeral System. I hope it helps.
Major cords are left as single letters. Minor cords are have a lower case 'm' after the letter.
C would then equal C Major
Cm would equal C minor
There's more to it. But for playing in a simplified blues 1, 4, 5 it's a good start.
Power chords are neither major nor minor as there is no third.
The third is what determines if a chord is major or minor.
Major = 1 3 5 of the scale
Minor = 1 3b 5 of the scale (third tone is flatted, dropped 1/2 step)
Power or 5th = 1 5 8 of the scale (the 8 is the root one octave higher)
Let's look at the scale of A:
A B C# D E F# G# a b c# d e f# g# ... continues to repeat
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 ...
If you take the 1 3 and 5 tones you get:
A C# E which is Amajor (A)
If you flat the 3 you get:
A C E which is Aminor (Am)
If you take the 1 5 8 you get:
A E a which is the A power chord (A5)
7th chords obviously add the 7 tone of the scale to the formula.
There are several flavors of the 7th chord but the one you are most likely to deal with is the most common one, the Dominant 7th.
The Dom7 is the major triad of the scale with a the minor 7 tone added as follows 1 3 5 7b.
In the A scale example this would be:
A C# E G
The confusion with naming starts right about here.
An example is the minor 7th chord, it is also an added 6 chord in another key.
This is similar to the way a note can be flat or sharp as in A# Bb, different name same tone.
Don't let it bother you just learn it as you go.
Notice the A scale contains three sharps, C#, F#, and G# so when you see a piece of music that starts as the image below chances are it's in the Key of A but it could be in F# minor as this is the relative minor to A major. Don't panic the first measure usually contains the root chord.
Looks like you are getting the gist of it.
Some people have been known to use a capital M to designate a major chord but it's not common practice. i.e. AM, CM, DM etc.
Don't forget the 7th chords maj7, dom7, and m7.
Dom7 is usually written as the chord+7 as in the A7.
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