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Easy Way To Play Advanced Guitar Chords - Triad Over Bass Note - Part 2 of 3 - Guitar Lesson

Don Mock - A Ballad Of Triangles - How To Play

This three part guitar lesson is all about coming up with really cool chord voicings using chord shapes that you probably already know. It is a fun way of playing chords without having to learn a whole bunch of new chords and fingerings in the traditional way. The simple theory to this is you take the three notes to any chord you already know (major, minor, diminished, augmented) and play a different bass note over it.

That's it. It sounds simple. It is simple. But when you analyze the chords you come up with ... you open a whole world of new stuff. You come up with chord voicings you probably would not have normally thought about playing.

When we begin learning how to play guitar we are usually first taught a simple first position pentatonic scale. As far as chords go, we first learn the first position major chords (Dmaj, Gmaj, Amaj, Emaj etc.). And as we advance in our learning and playing ... we tend to learn things in the same manner, a new scale pattern or a new chord shape. And we continue to build a library of these scales and chords.

But this is a different approach to learning. This is a way of coming up with chord shapes that aren't traditionally taught but without having to memorize a whole bunch of new stuff. Again, you most likely already know all the three note shapes that make up a triad and adding a single bass note isn't complicated. It's just a matter of experimenting and breaking down what you are doing.

In this guitar lesson we will take a look at a cool little study that incorporates this thinking. It is all major triads over different bass notes. This etude is something the great Don Mock came up with for a book called "Ten". Ten was a book written for the Musicians Institute back in the day. It is long out of print but was a fantastic book. It was made up of ten guitar players (most if not all were teaching at GIT at the time). Each guitar player taught one section of the book (total of 20 sections). Some of the great guitar instructors were Don Mock, Larry Carlton, Robben Ford, Ron Eschete, Howard Roberts, Joe Pass, Tommy tedesco, Joe Diorio.

The only thing this book didn't come with were audio tracks (but this was the early 1980's ... books were pretty much the only learning tools back then ... oh the horror! ... lol)

I hope you enjoy this lesson ... this is a topic that opened up my musical world when I was presented with this book and this concept back in my music school days. It was definitely a turning point in my musical journey that changed the way I thought about music and the way I saw the guitar fretboard.

Check out the master Don Mock at his website ...

http://donmockguitar.com/

And definitely pick up some of this books and dvd's. He is one of the most amazing teachers and a great player. He has played with some top guys throughout the years and was one of the original, much sought after instructors at GIT (Musicians Institute in Hollywood California).

Taught by David Clayton

Alright ... Lets get to it.

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