All Chords Around Each Position Of The Major Scale
The concept is simple; for each note of the major scale, we play the 7th note chord, like this: I – II – III – IV – V – VI – VII.
Once mastered, these exercises are what will make sense of the guitar fretboard.
It is your ability to know this inside out that will enable you to make sense of the Roman Numerals, the chord shapes, and how this is laid out on the fretboard.
When you can do this in all five shapes in the key of A, do it backwards as well, and then in all keys!
The next step is to do this again, but using the cycle of 4th & 3rd.
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Chords | Step-by-step guitar course
The CAGED system is the best way to organize the guitar fretboard. Starting with the open-position chords, we extend and connect them in this chords course.
Follow the 8 steps of the self-eliminating practice routine to map out the fretboard, it will be the best thing you’ve ever done.
Chord progression | Step-by-step guitar course
In these guitar lessons, I talk about how to best describe chords when they are put after each other and form chord progressions.
The main thing to discover here is how popular music is a combination of the harmonized major scale and the Blues.
Chordacus
Spytunes chords, scale, and arpeggio software, Chordacus is a refined version of the so-called CAGED system.
Now available as both a chromatic (original version) and “within a key”, developed with the help of a Spytunes student.
About me | Dan Lundholm
This was a guitar lesson about chords around Ionian, by Dan Lundholm. Discover more about him and learn guitar with Spytunes.
Most importantly, find out why you should learn guitar through playing tunes, not practising scales, and studying theory in isolation.