Lesson 3

A Look At Dominant Chords

John March
Standard tuning

02:13 "A triad" 03:03

A Amaj7 A6
1
Elec Gtr

root 3rd 5th

4 2
5 5 5
6 6 6
7 7 7
0 0

04:20 "Make melodies with one voicing"

A F G B A G
4

5 1 3 6 5 3
6 X 2 X 4 7 6 4
7 X 3 X X 5 X X 8 (X) 7 X 5

C D A B A
6

8 10 5 6 4
9 11 6 7 5
X X X 10 X X 12 X X X 7 X 8 X 6

A F G F G G A
8

(4) 5 2 (2) 3 1 (1) 3 4 5

(5) 6 3 (3) 4 2 (2) 4 5 6
(6) X 7 X 4 (4) X 5 X 3 (3) X 5 6 7

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 05:29 "Different color energy from major to minor"
A Am
11

3 3 3 3 3 3 3
5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7

05:43
A13 (A9) Am13 (Am9)
3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
13

2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5

07:15 "All G naturals—flat 7th in A major"

16

3 15
8
0 12
5
10
3

07:59 "A to A7 moving just one finger"

A A7 A A7 A A7 A
18

5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
7 X 7 5 5 X 7 7 X 5 5 X 5 7 X 7 5 5 7

08:47 "G major triad inversions"

G G/B G/D
21

3 8 12
4 7 12
5 9 12

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 09:14 + 09:41 "Three G7 inversions"
G G7/F G/B
24

3 3 8
4 4 7
5 3 9

G7/B G/D G7/D

27

6 12 12
7 12 10
9 12 12

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