Fundamentals
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Fundamentals Content
107 Courses
780 Lessons
187 Smartsheets
This comprehensive course covers dominant block chords. We’ll learn these chords with fun exercises in each key, and apply them to short songs in a bossa, swing, ballad, and funk style.
Block Chord Exercise (Ab, Db, Gb)
"Locked Out" (Funk)
"Dominant Dominic" (Swing)
Block Chord Exercise (F, Bb, Eb)
Definition & Positions
Block Chord Exercise (D, G, C)
"Blocked, Not Broken" (Ballad)
Block Chord Exercise (B, E, A)
"Right-Hand Dominant" (Bossa)
Learn the most important fundamentals for the Key of Gb Major with the scale, diatonic chords, and common chord progressions. Then put it all together with an original tune, “Angel of My Eyes .”
Learn the most important fundamentals for the Key of Gb Major with the scale, diatonic chords, and common chord progressions. Then put it all together with an original tune, “Angel of My Eyes .”
Accompaniment
Common Chords
Song: Angel of My Eyes
This comprehensive course covers minor block chords. We’ll learn these chords with fun exercises in each key, and apply them to short songs in a bossa, swing, ballad, and funk style.
"The Position is Closed" (Swing)
"Minor Blockage" (Funk)
Block Chord Exercise (Am, Dm, Gm)
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