About Course
If you're getting a little tired of the same old open-position chords and are looking to expand your harmonic palette a bit, you're in the right place! In this eight-lesson video guitar course, instructors Doug Boduch, Tom Kolb, and Troy Stetina will load you up with just about all the chords you can handle. Not only will you learn how to construct all types of chords (triads, seventh chords, suspended chords, add chords, ninth chords, etc.), but you'll learn plenty of usable voicings and inversions, allowing you to play just about any chord you want anywhere on the neck! These videos are designed for intermediate-level players ready to level up their chord knowledge.
Doug Boduch will get you started in Barre Chords, where you'll learn how to build and play common barre chord shapes, and Chord Embellishments, in which you'll see how to dress up standard open and barre chords with various techniques like suspensions, add chords, incorporating open strings, and more. Then it's triad boot camp with Troy Stetina in Triad Inversions. You'll learn what inversions are, how they're used, and how to play any kind of triad in any kind of inversion all over the neck.
Then it's on to seventh chords with Intro to Seventh Chords, Seventh Chord Inversions, and Essential 7th Chord Shapes. This section of the course teaches you all you need to know about these ubiquitous harmonies, including how they're constructed, how to play them (all over the fretboard in any inversion), and how they're typically used in different genres. Ninth Chords follows, in which you'll learn plenty of useful voicings for these extended harmonies and hear how to use them in styles like blues, funk, jazz, and more.
The guitar lesson course wraps up with Slash Chords & Polychords, where Tom explores these colorful topics, highlighting their differences and common applications of each. In short, you can expect your chordal and fretboard knowledge to grow by leaps and bounds with this course, which will also aid in chord/scale connection and foundational music theory as well. There's so much to learn; don't put it off any longer!