Harmonizing Major Scales on the Top Middle Strings

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Learn guitar chord theory in-depth with Mark Goldenberg, a respected touring and session guitarist and a student of the legendary Ted Greene. You'll explore basic major and minor chord inversions all over the neck and on all string sets, as well as wide-triad voicings; harmonized major scales; major, minor, and dominant seventh-chord voicings; and more.

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Top Middle Strings

Harmonizing Major Scales on the Top Middle Strings

If you’ve learned to harmonize the major scale on the top three strings, it’s time to move down a string set and find the harmonized major scale on the top middle strings: D, G, and B. You’ll learn the harmonized major scale for C (first inversion), A (second inversion), and G (root position). Mark also gives advice on practicing chord progressions by decorating or arpeggiating the chords, and shows you a cycle-of-fourths progression in each key.

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