Hi! Welcome back to lesson eighteen of our beginners guitar lessons series. In today’s lesson, we’ll learn a few more modified major chords, as well as some minor chords, and discuss their proper use within a song. As usual, we have an audio of this lesson which you will find in our audio guitar lessons library, look out for lesson 18.
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We learned in lesson Seventeen, that modified guitar chords are standard chords which use additional notes added. Notes added to major chords are taken from the major scale, and it is the same with modified minor chords. Let’s look at the A minor scale, which is the relative minor of C major..
Even though A minor is based on C major, we’ve numbered the notes in the minor scale to modify the minor chord. An A minor chord contains the 1st, 3rd, and 5th notes of the minor scale (A E C). The most popular minor chord modification is the Minor Seven.
To play an Am7 chord, simply play a standard Am chord, and add the seventh note, which is G. This is easily done by dropping your third finger away from a standard AM chord, and will add the open G note.
Other minor chords that are easily modified include:
Now, let’s try some chord progressions using our new modified minor chords, as well as some from previous lessons. Strum each chord four times.
Using modified guitar chords within a song usually poses no problems, as long as the melody and solo parts also contain the modified notes. Remember to memorize and perfect all chords, and in the next two lessons, we’ll be putting it all together. Until next time, thanks for joining us here at Learn The Guitar Lessons.
Scotty Smith
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