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HEY! People! This is about rock and roll and blue and CBGs.
Don't over complicate it.
Get proficient on some simple songs and then slowly step it up. And yes, for blues and rock, like chicken bone John said, that 3rd fret is magic. I use the crap out of it for blues.
Again, if it is rock you are after, take a look at Mike Snowden's vids on youtube - or the one of Mike's I posted here on CBB tonight.
And if it is rock you are after, amp settings are a key to sounding like a rocker.
I can see why the advice is to not complicate things, particularly when the music you want to make is relatively easy, you may not need extended chords etc. But in the end things are only complicated when they're new. If you know all this stuff about chords it's very simple, if you don't it's complicated. If you don't go from complicated to confused you'll never get to simple.
Music Theory is good. Learning is good.
Think of music as a language then reflect on how you learned the written and spoken word.
You heard it first, someone explained the basic rules, then you advanced to recognizing the symbols representing the sounds and ended up using the symbols and sounds to communicate your ideas.
If you walked around calling everything "Kevin" folks would get real tired of listening to you real quick. :-D
Quick math problem:
If "Kevin" is in the Key of K what would a 5th of Kevin be?
Nah man, a 5th of Kevin goes for about $30 and makes all the pain go away.
Oh and don't worry about the intrusion of the cervical goretex, you'll be fine unless it gets twisted.
I'm in agreement with Chickenbone John's explanation but it is very confusing until you get a handle on it. Another good reason for using numbers in a jam is that if you holler "G minor" it sounds like D minor or E minor or anything else. Sign language gets used with 4 or 5 fingers or whatever number is appropriate . being held up to indicate the changes. To further add to the confusion, even when reading chord charts different symbols might be used for the same chord from one chart to the next. C minor may be written Cm,Cmin, C- or C minor and the same is true for other chords as well. One way to look at this is that a major scale has 8 notes in it from,let's say C,D.E,F,G,A,B,C. That's 7 notes not counting the octave.Each note is assigned a number. 1 for C, the tonic, 2 for D 3 for E and so on. So the formula for a major chord is 1,3,5. C,E,G in this case. The notes change from key to key but the numbers are a constant. It's just a bit disturbing,and encouraging, that a Cigar Box guitarist wants to know this stuff! Still, I try to forget all this when playing and let my ears and emotion tell me what to play.
Ahhhhhhhh!!! Your head spinning yet??? Awesome! : ) Theory is great to know. Even just enough of it to help. Knowing it is one thing. Hearing it as it's played in the music your listening to is where it'll make sense. Then applying it to learning what songs you want to play. It's that extra tool that'll help. When you can't figure out that next cord or part.
Here's another example of major minor cords in a progression.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QzpSeDsHIw
This classic uses the major minor cord forms. Start with a C by playing the second third and fourth string at the fifth fret. Then play a minor cord on the seventh fret. Being the sixth fret on the second string. The seventh fret on both the third and fourth string. Take this cord formation and bring it up two frets. Then back to all strings in a line at the tenth fret. This would be a major cord. The lower cord ( or the 7 cord in the progression below) being played is a B minor. Played as second string third fret. Third and forth strings played on the fourth fret.
Written out as they're played the cords would look like
C, C,Dm, Em, F, F, Em, Dm, C, C, Dm, Em, Em, Dm. C, C,Dm, Em, F, F, Em, Dm, C, C, Dm, Em, Bm, C.
1...1...2......3..4...4....3.....2.....1,,1..2.....3......3.....2....1...1...2......3..4...4....3.....2....1..1...2.....3.....7....1
Or the roman numbers. But they suck to type so I'll stick with these. : )
Classical music majors in a rock band. The HORROR!!! I had a friend who was hired into a band lead by a husband and wife teem. They both had doctrines in classical music. I can only imagine their original lead guitarist ran screaming. This stuff was really bad. Picture a husband and wife who've spent the last 10 years in a choir singing and playing 'rock and roll'. Somewhere in my music archives I have a cassette of these guys. I keep it only because the guitar player was a friend of mine. I could back mail him with it. :-)
Hey you left me off that list Ron.
OMG that clip sounds WAY to much like this husband and wife team. And they were serious about it.
Nope. Nothing wrong with how much you know. These guys knew nothing about rock and roll. It was fightingly horrible. My friend stayed on to help finish the album and got out of his contract. Didn't run screaming. But didn't look back.
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