A minor 9 guitar chord harmonics

Continuing our occasional series of playing guitar chords with natural harmonics, today's Guitar Chord of the Day is A minor 9.
Mixing fretted notes and guitar harmonics is a great way to add some more tonal color to your guitar chords.
Minor 9 chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, b3, 5, b7, 9
A minor 9 uses the notes: A, C, E, G, B


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F minor 13 guitar chord

Today's Guitar Chord of the Day is F minor 13. Minor 13 chords are usually played as chord i in minor keys, but try playing them in other situations where you might play a minor chord to add some extra colour.
Minor 13 chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, b3, 5, b7, 9, 11, 13

F minor 13 uses the notes: F, Ab, C, Eb, G, Bb, D
Our guitar inversion uses the notes in this order: F, Ab, Eb, G,  D

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Ab Major 9 Guitar Chord

Today's Guitar Chord of the Day is Ab Major 9. This guitar chord has it's root on the D string. Major 9 guitar chords can be replace major 7th chords replacing chords I and IV chords in major keys.
Here's the fingering for this guitar chord shape:

Major 9 guitar chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9
F major 9 uses these notes: Ab, C, Eb, G, Bb
Our guitar chord uses the notes in this order: C, Ab, Eb, G, Bb


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E Major 7 Guitar Chord

Today's Guitar Chord of the Day is E Major 7. Today's guitar chord is easy to play and mixes open strings and fretted notes - these guitar chords have a nice sounding quality to them.
Major 7 can replace Major triads for chords I and IV in Major keys.

Major  chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, 3, 5, 7

E Major 7 uses the notes: E, G#, B, D#
Our guitar inversion uses the notes in this order: E, G#, D#, B, E

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G Major 13

Today's Guitar Chord of the Day is G Major 13. We've featured a few alternative Major 13th chords here. Major 13 chords can also be written Δ13, so G Major 7, G maj13 and GΔ13 all refer to the same guitar chord.
Here's the fingering for this chord, let the top E and B strings ring out.

Major 13 chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 and 13, though the 11th is usually left out.

The notes of G Major 13 are: G, B, D, F#, A, (C), E
Our inversion uses the notes in this order: G, D, F#, A, B, E

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F major 9 Guitar Chord

Following our series of triads, today's Guitar Chord of the Day is a chord that's a little more harmonically complex but very easy to play:  F major 9
Here's the fingering for this chord, the open strings give a nice ringing quality to the chord and it's easy to play!

Major 9 guitar chords can be replace major 7th chords replacing chords I and IV chords in major keys.
Major 9 guitar chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9
F major 9 uses these notes: F, A C, E, G
Our guitar chord uses the notes in this order: F, G, A, E

As you can see this inversion has no 5th (C), it's common to leave this note out.

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12 Major Triads - inversion 12

Today's Guitar Chord of the Day is the last in our series of 12 major triads.

Here's the fingering for this guitar chord:

Play through all 12 of the major triads and try modifying them in the following ways:

• Minor - lower the 3rd a semitone
• Augmented - raise the 5th a semitone
• Diminished - lower the 3rd and 5th a semitone

Experiment playing through songs you know just using this triads, or playing through a simple I IV V progression.

To extend this even more, we can include some triadic superimpositions. These are simple chord substitutions where we play triads off notes other than the root note. Here are some examples:

Instead of C maj7 (C E G B) play Em (E G B), G (G B D)
Instead of Dm7 (D F A C) play F (F A C) or Am (A C E)
Instead of G7 (G B D F) play Bdim (B D F) or Dm (D F A)

Even though the triads are harmonically simple you can still get interesting chord using this technique.


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