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Permalink Reply by Keni Lee Burgess on August 23, 2009 at 12:24pm

An A minor chord is made up of:
a (1) c (flat 3) e (5). If you are tuned GDG play
(low G) 2nd fret (a)
(middle string D) 2nd fret (e)
(high G) 5th fret (c)

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CD 1 contains CBG lessons.
The theory will take you a long way.
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Permalink Reply by Ara on August 23, 2009 at 12:36pm

Thanks! I've been following your lessons and I will be picking up your instructional CD as well!

ara



Keni Lee Burgess said:

An A minor chord is made up of:
a (1) c (flat 3) e (5). If you are tuned GDG play
(low G) 2nd fret (a)
(middle string D) 2nd fret (e)
(high G) 5th fret (c)

Please check out my instructional videos:
www.ebay.com Search: Keni Lee
CD 1 contains CBG lessons.
The theory will take you a long way.
Please feel free to write. Enjoy.

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Permalink Reply by joe cerroni on August 23, 2009 at 10:52pm

There's a video out there of Shane Speal showing how to make minors and sevenths and stuff that opened up a whole new world of CBG chords to me. I need to check out Keni's vids too, Thanks Ara and Keni! Peace. Joe

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Permalink Reply by Brian Lemin on August 23, 2009 at 11:09pm

Try here first. Not exactly for you as the Dulcimer has different frets.
http://www.folknotes.com/MDchord.html

There is another web page that has them diagrammed but i cant find it!

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Permalink Reply by Brian Lemin on August 24, 2009 at 2:29am

http://www.harmony-central.com/Software/Windows/guitar.html

This site has a lot of software that might help in chord shapes..

I looked at Fretboard dots and Fretboard for windows. Both seem to work in Vista.

In both you can change the instrument to a 4 string instrument, then proceed to change the tunings. If you happen to be stuck with more strings than you want then just tune the bottom remaining strings to your bottom note. Then you can ignore them in your fingering.

It is still not the site I was looking for.

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Permalink Reply by Ben on August 24, 2009 at 2:35am

Another option would be to the C as a single note as a passing tone to the next chord. Or maybe A...C...back to the A chord again. Let the mind fill in the rest.

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Permalink Reply by Keni Lee Burgess on August 24, 2009 at 10:04am

Basically, if you know all the notes on the three strings, you can find the tones you need in any location. By definition, a chord is three tones at the same time. A major chord is made up of the 1,3,5 tones from the major scale. If you are in the key of G (major scale = g a b c d e f# g) You need g,b,d. You may have noticed that if you are playing a CBG strung GDg, you already have two of the tones. That is why this tuning is called G5. (the G note, One and the Five, the D note) It is basically a little power chord. If you play the high g string at the 4th fret that adds the b. Then you have a full major chord. If you move down to the 3rd fret on the first string, you flatten the 3rd tone and form a minor chord. Many times it is not necessary to play the full chord to get an impression of the major chord. Two notes at the same time are called intervals or double stops. You can play the 1 and 3 tones...1 and 5 tones...3 and 5 tones. Personally, I feel the trick to undertanding three string instuments is to learn harmony. This simply means adding a second tone to a tone that makes up the melody line you are playing. You go from one note...to two (doublestop)...to three (simply chord). I know at first this might be confusing, but once you understand it the fingerboard makes a whole lot more sense. Enjoy.

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Permalink Reply by Brian Lemin on August 26, 2009 at 2:40am

At last i have found the site I was looking for but sadly it only has chords for Dad. I thought I would post it as a resource that some would like to have.

There are an amazing amount to choose from for three stringers with dad.

http://www.angelfire.com/folk/rempetiko/pdf/dad.pdf

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Permalink Reply by Tres Seaver on August 26, 2009 at 3:22am

Brian Lemin said:

At last i have found the site I was looking for but sadly it only has chords for Dad. I thought I would post it as a resource that some would like to have.

There are an amazing amount to choose from for three stringers with dad.

http://www.angelfire.com/folk/rempetiko/pdf/dad.pdf

Thanks for the link! The same fingerings will work for other I-V-i configurations: you just need to transpose to fit. So, for my GDg three stringer, you would drop each chord by a fifth (all the D-root chords become G-root, the E-roots become A-roots, etc).

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Permalink Reply by Keni Lee Burgess on August 26, 2009 at 6:50am

Just to claify this:

The major scale is made up of 8 notes (an octive). (Do rei mi fa sol la ti do) Tones 1-8. It all depends on what note of the chromatic scale you begin: (c, d-flat, d, e-flat, e, f, f-sharp, g-flat, g, a-flat, a, b-flat, b) 13 different keys. In the key of G: (gabcdef#g) if you tune GDg that is tones 151. In the key of D: (def#gabc#d) if you tune DAd that is also tones 151. The fingering on your instrument will be exactly the same. The instrument will sound in the different keys all by itself. Enjoy.

Brian Lemin said:

At last i have found the site I was looking for but sadly it only has chords for Dad. I thought I would post it as a resource that some would like to have.

There are an amazing amount to choose from for three stringers with dad.

http://www.angelfire.com/folk/rempetiko/pdf/dad.pdf

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Permalink Reply by Brian Lemin on August 26, 2009 at 2:16pm

Please keep it simple for bird brains like me.
So what would i have do to make a shape for A Minor in Dad an A minor in GDg? Like how many frets up or down would i have to move the shape? I presume the shift in the number of frets would be the same to transpose all the Dad to GDg chords.
The chart in the link give no clue if we should dampen a string or not when playing a chord.

I notice it talks about "no 3rd" etc I presume it means that the 3rd interval is missing from this chord? That would mean a less "full chord" but in three strings that must be taken for granted that it will happen often.

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Permalink Reply by Brian Lemin on August 27, 2009 at 10:00pm

Duh.... (No reflection on you i can assure you... It is all about me) I can t read note of music without being given 5 minutes to run through f-a-c-e and the other one about good boy! But if something says "A min" for a normal guitar chord, i know the shape and can place it in the correct fret. (Possibly in three inversions too)

I (we) have this huge Dad chord chart, that has about all the chords and more than i will ever want. If i decide to change my tuning(Dad) to your Gdg how can I easily look at that chart and say "all i need to do is move a shape up a "few frets" or down a "few Frets" and and the Dad shape/chord will now be correct for the Gdg tuning."

Just say: Brian, move the shape "Up/Down" "x" number of frets That i will understand! :)

I told you i was dumb! This proves it.

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