Wednesday 24 October 2012

Blues Guitar Chords: Chord Scale

Today's guitar chord of the day post takes a different turn and includes eight guitar chords! We've looked at some of these chord inversions but this post puts them in a new context.

All of the chords presented are inversions or extensions of C7, so can be played in place of C7 in a blues progression. The interesting thing about this progression is that the top note of the series of chords plays through a C Mixolydian Scale.


The first is a C7 chord with a C root note on top

C7 Blues guitar chord

The second chord is a C9 chord with the 9th, D on top.

C9 Blues guitar chord


The third chord is a C7 chord with the 3rd, E on top.

C7 Blues guitar chord

The fourth chord is a C11 chord with the 11th, F on top.

C11 Blues guitar chord



The fifth chord is a C9 chord with the 5th, G on top.

C9 Blues guitar chord



The sixth chord is a C13 chord with the 13th, A on top.

C13 blues guitar chord

The seventh chord is a C7 chord with the 7th, Bb on top.

C7 blues guitar chord

The final chord is a C7 chord with the root note, C on top.

C7 blues guitar chord


As we can play any one of these chords in place of a regular C7 we can play melodies with our rhythm parts - this sounds much more interesting than playing just one inversion for an extended period of time. Try linking these together and making up your own combinations of these chords and tune in tomorrow for another guitar chord of the day.