Harmonizing Major Scales on the Top Three Strings, Part 3: Cycle of Fourths Drills

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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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In this lesson, in addition to learning the triad shapes for the key of A and E, Mark talks about learning to hear the separate voices within the chord, instead of just thinking of them as block shapes.

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Top Three Strings

Harmonizing Major Scales on the Top Three Strings, Part 1: First Inversion

Harmonizing Major Scales on the Top Three Strings, Part 2: Second Inversion and Root Position

Harmonizing Major Scales on the Top Three Strings, Part 3: Cycle of Fourths Drills

One nice way to practice playing these triads is by using a cycle of fourths progression. Mark shows you some ideas for combining the voicings in different places on the neck using a cycle of fourths progression in the key of C: C, F, Bdim, Em, Am, Dm, G, C.

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