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major ninth chords

How to use my secret 9 trick to add flavor to your chord progressions

by Jermaine Griggs · 20 comments

in Playing songs

In today’s post, I’m going to show you how to improve your dull, “overused” major chords by adding the “9th” tone. Instant spice!

If you haven’t read yesterday’s post, stop what you’re doing and review it first! This post won’t make much sense as it is a continuation from yesterday.
In my last post, I left you with this nice ballad-style chord progression…

What every musician should know about “chord stacking”…

by Jermaine Griggs · 6 comments

in Chords & Progressions

So you want to play big, fancy chords! Who doesn’t?

stacking1-small.jpgAnd yesterday, I pointed you in the right direction. We got introduced to polychords, which are essentially big chords made from two or more smaller ones.

Today, we’re going to take it a step further. Rather than stack “common” chords on top of each other, we’re going to see what happens when we venture outside the norm…