Rhythm Guitar Lesson: Moveable Blues

[GuitarOddysey]

wow, creepy grin after "Let's look at that fingering"

[MrJackanthony]

Is that a les paul or a ukelele.

[heatmanable]

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[InspiredProphecy]

Using the CAGED system, what form does that A9 chord fall in??

[superagnitio]

@InspiredProphecy Think my frined! Easy to figure it out. Think where the root is and where the other notes our(third for example, also the 5th on the 2 string helps). This is a G shape chord ;)

[SomeBlueKind]

i fell asleep twice before getting half way through the second minute.

[fridrikur]

Very well explained. Great lesson

[Wilq59r]

could you please write what amplifier did you use to make this video? I really dig the sound!

[itstonyc]

That's the stormy Monday chord as well as the 7 chord in Southbound

[DiatonicSoul]

If you move that shape to the d string, you will have a diminished chord, add a 6th root and it will be 7th-9

[jondanet]

If you take this chord voicing and swap the index for the middle finger which frees the middle which you know place on the root on the E string also use it to mute the A string ...

[glennfryenpie]

cool very helpful. thx for posting!

[DEFkon001]

It's not technically wrong, although I can see where you're getting those chords from. I originally learned that voicing as a half diminished (m7b5) chords as well, but the thing with chords (esp dim or half dim) is that any note in a chord can be considered it's root, and it's name will usually change to reflect that function. So C Maj can also be Em with a sharpened 5th in the bass. It's sort of the musical way of saying my laptop can also function as a paperweight or a crotch heater.

[DEFkon001]

The reason why it works as a 9th chord without the root is because of a technique called comping (complimenting) basically it means someone else is establishing the root - bass player, piano, another guitarist, backing track.. whatever someone else is playing or alluding to that root note and your tacking the rest of the chord's voicing onto it.

[jawnjo]

wow jody, you have opened the total next level for my wife Jolene! we're a blues duo and she is really excited about this one- it's an easy version of the tbirds' "wait on time", a song i love to sing. many many thanks!!

jawbone

[jawnjo]

Thank you, very easy to understand and great groove!

[ragingstorm33]

come on...baby dont cha want ta go (now thats all i can think of)

[johngoo343]

@ragingstorm33 wrong progression

[marshmelow]

very jazzy sound :)

[YJakaPINKY]

damn man, im a noob i just learned the A minor scale and the 12 bar blues rythm, but im so lost with this root and it's importance and why. like for instance when he says stuff like A9 and d9 and stuff like that. am i making this too complicated?

[ragingstorm33]

root note is the start (if your in the key of a the root is a) also called tonic. I dont want to say way more but in a scale you have 7 notes (most of the time). In rock and blues you use the 1st note of the scale, 3rd note of the scale and 5th because of the sound (what he did) i wish i could make it more simple but there are 100 things i could say and just mess you up but as long is thats in your head it should help i wish someone told me that stuff.

[ragingstorm33]

here someone put this on somethin else dont go into it too much but this will help with later theory and to be honest if you want to know blues its good to know this stuff

Pentatonic (5-note scale (penta))

as Opposed to Heptatonic (7 note scale, e.g. Major Scale.)

[TheSimolitious5656]

i can understand exact same thing with me

[neildakill]

not being rude here but dont you think jody would make the perfect person to do a musical version of the godfather....sorry jody just a thought love the playing ive heard youve been at it for 40 yrs great style

[dkstryker]

man ive always wanted to know those chords! thanks for the lesson!!

[chowyoungfat]

sweet! thanks for the lesson (:

[Gohan346]

Hey Jody! *Wink wink*

[GuitarSource]

Yes, that's a great chord. The implied root can be confusing though. There is another form of that chord that plays that uses the 1st string root.

[altadena57]

Could you describe your version?? Thanks

[GuitarSource]

Sure, I've also uploaded T. Bone Walker's Stormy Monday (see my channel) which gives a great example of the chord in the rhythm part. The chord in A:

1st string, 5th fret (root, use pinky)

2nd string, 5th fret (5th, ring finger)

3rd string, 4th fret (9th, index)

4th string, 5th fret (b7th, middle finger)

That's usually how I play it but there is no 3rd in that form. To add the 3rd:

5th string, 4th fret (index barred)

[altadena57]

Thanks for the chord detail, and your Stormy Monday version is super. If you're not too sick and tired of my questions, could you post the chords for Stormy Monday, on the comments for that video?? Thanks again.

[GuitarSource]

Sure, gimme a couple weeks on that. I'll either put it in the video description or post a video response.