Building and Understanding Major Chords and Arpeggios for Bass and Guitar

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You know your major scale. You know your scale degrees. Now what? Let’s start learning to build chords! In this lesson for bass and guitar I’ll show you how major chords are built, why some major chords appear to have more notes than others (chord voicings), and tell you how to make good use of this information using arpeggios. At the end I’ll show you an example of how to create simple improvisations using this simple arpeggio pattern. Enjoy!

🎧LESSON INDEX
0:00 Lesson Intro
1:03 Where Major Chords Come From
3:30 Too Many C Chords
5:39 What's an Arpeggio?
6:31 Using Arpeggios to Make Music
7:36 Arpeggios on Bass
8:55 Arpeggios on Guitar

💡 LESSON TOPICS:
♪ A major chord = 1st, 3rd, and 5th notes from the major scale ("1-3-5")
♪ Notes are important, but this lesson focuses on fretboard patterns
♪ An arpeggio is the notes of a chord played one at a time
♪ A "chord voicing" is just the notes of a chord being duplicated,rearranged, redistributed, etc.
♪ "Chord tones" are the notes of a chord
♪ If you play CHORD TONES, you are playing the same notes as everyone else...and that's a good thing!
♪ Playing along to major chords on bass and guitar with real examples
♪ Scale degrees help us to build chords - that’s the secret sauce!

🎥 RELATED VIDEOS

🔴 4 Easy Scale Patterns on Guitar | Major and Minor Scales with Simple Variations


🔴 3 Major Scale Patterns to Master the B-String | Guitar Scales Made Easy


🔴 Using and Understanding Scale Degrees for Bass and Guitar | Taking the Mystery Out of Music Theory


🧑 ABOUT ME
My name is Alex, and my passion is teaching music online. I’m a bass player and composer by training and trade, but what I really love to do is teach. I make my living teaching private lessons on Bass, Guitar, Piano, and Ukulele. My favorite thing to teach is theory - helping the students understand the “why” behind the music and empowering them to make better and more informed musical choices. I’m very adamant about teaching technique. This is how you gain power and control over your instrument and ultimately raise the ceiling on where your limits are and where they will be in the future.

I appreciate you participating in learning music with me, either for free through my videos or in private lessons in my virtual studio. Players of all abilities and backgrounds are welcome! There’s no music lesson I don’t love.

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