Started guitar lessons on Thursday …

Learning how to construct any chord is actually pretty simple and not much information required.
Just make sure you are very familiar with all the notes on the fingerboard without having to think and you have the major scale solidly in your head and hands . All positions. Everything else can be constructed with this very basic knowledge.
You can link it to caged and end up with everything in five positions with relevant scales under your fingers all over the neck . Harmony is when if starts to get fun and playing over changes. But with just the information above you can play over pretty much anything.
 
Super nice, good luck on your journey!!

What do you want to take out of your lessons?
Why did you decide to go on lessons after so many years of playing?
 
What do you want to take out of your lessons?
Why did you decide to go on lessons after so many years of playing?
I just want to write songs again. The last song I wrote was in 1992. That was just industrial metal. I want to write beautiful things now.

I gave it all up for about 20 years and then started again in 2015 to join a church band. There was too much drama and ego there so i dipped.

Then I joined a cover band but couldn’t meet their scheduling.

I decided that playing other people’s music isn’t the best use of my efforts.
 
I just want to write songs again. The last song I wrote was in 1992. That was just industrial metal. I want to write beautiful things now.

I gave it all up for about 20 years and then started again in 2015 to join a church band. There was too much drama and ego there so i dipped.

Then I joined a cover band but couldn’t meet their scheduling.

I decided that playing other people’s music isn’t the best use of my efforts.

Good luck man and I wish you all the fun with it
 
Impling industrial metal can't be beautiful :cautious:
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Re: Ted Greene, I don't think you'll learn chords well that way, especially not the basic "guts".
So, there's an Em11 chord in your sheet. Which one out of Mr. Greene's book are you choosing? And which note is the 11th anyway? And are you gonna play the 9th as well? And to which A7/b9 will it move to most elegantly?
This is not meant to dismiss Ted Greene by any means. Especially given the year it was written, it's an enormous attempt. But it's more like a kind of thesaurus for folks already pretty fluent with all the basics. Something to look through and say "oh, yeah, that might be an interesting choice for an Em11 that I haven't played before".
From what I remember from my lessons with him 1, ♭3, 5, ♭7, 11 he called m7/11 chords and more often than not ditched the 5.

m11 incl. The 9.

But yeah chord misery as he called it iirc is not something I'd throw at some one just tackling 7th chords.

That said I'm a big fan of how he does go about building voicings.

And speaking of which a drop 2 °7 voicing is a lovely way to use for figuring out all inversions of other drop 2 chords.

Like...

G♯°7 (B°7, D°7, F°7 since it's symmetrical)
You can also think.of it as a rootless G7. B♭7, D♭7, E7

G♯ D F B (1 ♭3 ♭5 ♭♭7)
On any consecutive 4 strings
x x 6 7 6 7

x 11 12 10 12 x

4 5 3 4 x x (obviously that's one octave down)

If you lower any one note a half step it becomes the root of a dom7th chord.

As in...
x x 6 7 6 7
becomes
x x 5 7 6 7 G7
x x 6 6 6 7 Db7
x x 6 7 5 7 E7
x x 6 7 6 6 Bb7

This gives you the root position, but moving the shape in ♭3 it gives all inversions

x x 3 4 3 4
becomes
x x 3 4 3 3 G7

x x 9 10 9 10
becomes
x x 9 10 8 10 G7

x x 12 13 12 13
Becomes
x x 12 12 12!13 G7

Raise a single note a half step
It becomes the ♭7 of a ø (m7♭5)
the 5th of a m6
The 9th of a rootless dom9
The ♯5 of a rootless 7♭9♯5

x x 4 5 4 5 (F♯°7 C°7 E♭°7 A°7)

x x 5 5 4 5 (Aø C-6 F9 B7♭9♯5)

x x 4 6 4 5 (F♯-6 E♭ø B9 F7♭9♯5)

x x 4 5 5 5 (F♯ø A-6 D9 A♭7♭9♯5)

x x 4 5 4 6 (Cø E♭-6 A♭9 D7♭9♯5)


Move 2 consecutive notes (F♯+E♭, F♯+A, A+C, C+E♭) down a half step the become root and 6 of a 6 chord (same as ♭3 and root of a -7)

x x 4 5 4 5 F°7

x x 3 5 3 5 F6 D-7

x x 3 5 4 4 F-7 Ab6

x x 4 4 4 4 F♯-7 B6

x x 4 4 3 5 B-7 D6

up a half step they become the ♭7+5 of a -7, same as the 5+3 if a 6 chord.
Which is the same as last one a half step up

xx 4 5 4 5 F♯°7

Becomes

x x 4 6 4 6 F♯6

Etc....
 
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