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Chord Diagrams: Triads with Added Notes

Ty Quinn — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:01:37 +0000

Today I’ve put together another set of chord diagrams in pdf format. Enjoy!

The triads with added notes pdf includes 6th, add9, 6/9, min6th, madd9, and min6/9 chords. These are among the ‘must know’ jazz chords and make great ‘smooth’ alternatives to ordinary seventh chords.

Arpeggio Diagrams

Ty Quinn — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:01:46 +0000

Today I’ve just posted a few pdf’s which show the CAGED shapes for major, minor, dom7, maj7 and min7 arpeggios. They also have the most common two and three octave fingerings.

Chord Diagrams: Simple Triads

Ty Quinn — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:01:56 +0000

I’ve been doing a few articles on the CAGED system recently, so I thought it was about time that I released a pdf with the basic CAGED shapes for simple triads.

This pdf below shows the CAGED forms for major, minor, augmented, diminished, sus2 and sus4 chords, covering all of the triads in common usage.

Click to get the Simple Triads pdf

Scale Charts: Major, Minor(s), and Pentatonics

Ty Quinn — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:01:44 +0000

Recently I’ve been preparing a number of chord charts and scale charts for my CAGED Articles as well as for the Essential Open Chords post. While I was backing-up/re-organising my working files from those posts I realised, that I’d created a whole bunch of fingering charts. So I added a the ones that were missing and collated them all into a few pdfs and hey presto!

And here are all of the scales in a single multipage pdf.

Have fun… well, as much as one can have learning scales

Scale Charts: Diatonic Modes

Ty Quinn — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:01:28 +0000

Today is a pretty simple post, just a pdf for each of the seven diatonic modes. Each pdf includes both a large fretboard map for the whole neck, the five CAGED positions and the seven 3NPS (three notes per string) fingerings. Theres also a single pdf with all seven pages as one document.

Note that the CAGED shapes are drawn such that the ‘C’ shape is on the left and the ‘D’ shape on the right – they are not drawn in the order EDCAG as some books/sites might choose to arrange them. I find it makes more sense to begin with the first letter of the word rather than in the middle of the word (even though it is commonly done both ways).

Of course, if you need to refresh yourself as to exactly what is the CAGED system anyway the you might like to check out this series of posts on the CAGED system.

Anyway, here are the PDFs – Enjoy!

Blank Music Paper

Ty Quinn — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:01:06 +0000

I’ve been working on a few up-coming posts about rhythm reading – and I’ve been using the Lilypond music engraver to prepare the notation. In doing so I’ve also discovered how to create blank manuscript and blank TAB paper. I also grabbed out the old templates I’ve been using to create my chord charts.

Sorry, but I haven’t quite figured out how to do 4, 5 and 7 string blank TAB for guitar and bass – I’ll post them as soon as I can…

Standard Notation with Treble Clef

TAB

Essential Open Chords

Ty Quinn — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:01:16 +0000

Today I thought I’d post a pdf of a convenient chart of the most common open chord grips. Every player should be familiar with these simple shapes (even the slightly obscure ones such as 7sus4 chords) since they help develop more interesting movable shapes later on.

Click the link for the Essential Open Chords (pdf).