Bill_Brown
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Hey @the-old-coach , IMHO, don’t F@#k around about this – just get it done – it’s a fair deal all around – you’ll be happy with the electric & those that want you to have it will be happy also, just MHO, JUST DO IT, you’ll be happy too!!
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Great original song @TMutter 🤩👏👏 It evoked some real emotion for me, thinking about my dad and how much I’ve missed him for the past 11 years. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to recall some memories of our relationship🙏
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I thought the solo was excellent🎸😘 @Marisa 🤩 What a great rendition – awesome performance👏👏👏
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That was so awesome @Marisa 👏👏👏 I see that you had some back-up on this one (not that you needed it), the duo was a nice touch to this rendition👍 I remember when you posted this song from your home, maybe a year ago or so – a much quieter crowd (lol)🎸😘 Merry Christmas to you and yours Marisa🎄Thank you for sharing with us🙏 and have a great holiday season!
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Great attitude @stevieblues 👏👏👏 You should still have your current streak of weeks, right🤔 Today is day 2 and you now have a goal of surpassing your previous consecutive daily streak high. You’ve got this🤩
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Did you notice a pattern @Cadgirl with the locations along the neck with the Em shapes used for the Am & Bm (barre) chords and the Am shape used for the Em (barre) chord? The family of E & A shaped barre chords in use again😱
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Happy 5th TACiversary @Marty69 👏🎂🍾🥂👍🎸🤟
I loved reading the narrative of your journey and I wish you many, many more TACiversaries!
P.S. I hope that your dream of finding someone local to jam with comes true🎄
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Beautiful performance @Marty69 🤩🎸 Merry Christmas to you and yours my friend🎄You and your health have been in my thoughts and prayers🙏 Great to see and hear you on the Forums👏👏👏
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I concur @the-old-coach 👍 What better place to share our stories of victory or defeat. This Community has been extremely helpful in my journey and that’s why I try to be helpful and positive whenever I can.
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Yes @Cadgirl , that is what I want you to see👏🤩👏 Now to add a little more detail;
When the 1 chord is made from an E shape, the 4 & 5 chords will be made from an A shape where the 4 chord will be barred at the same fret as the 1 chord and the 5 chord will be barred 2 frets toward the body of the guitar (up the neck). Let’s call this pattern 1, just to give it a name.
When the 1 chord is made from an A shape, the 5 & 4 chords will be made from an E shape where the 5 chord will be barred at the same fret as the 1 chord and the 4 chord will be barred 2 frets toward the headstock (down the neck). Let’s call this pattern 2, just for the hell of it.
These 2 patterns will remain constant no matter what key you are playing (major or minor) when using the E Family & A Family of barre chord shapes. As a nice way to tie this into the CAGED system as taught in FW2, the scale patterns for the E shaped chords and A shaped chords are the same except the E scale shape is rooted on the lo E string and the A scale shape is rooted on the A string.
Saying all this stuff about scale patterns has reminded me that I need to go back to the CAGED system section in FW2 and go over those scale patterns for myself!
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Hey @Fletch , you guys have this in hand, no sweat 👍
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👍Yes Terry @TMutter , well done – in my mind, you have achieved that goal well beyond all expectations🙃
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Excellent work @Cadgirl !!😘 You have received FULL CREDIT for the extra credit (LOL)👍🎸🥂🍾
So to turn back full circle, my original comments to you were that 1)the E family and A family of chord shapes are used in the lions share of barre chord playing. 2)There is a simple (condensed) pattern along the neck when using the E & A families of barre chord shapes for the locations of the 1-4-5 chords of any key (major or minor).
In hind site, I may not have been clear enough about the “type” of pattern itself. The pattern that I was trying to get you to see is about the close proximity along the neck of the 1-4-5 chords in any key (major or minor) when using the E & A families of barre chord shapes. This pattern has nothing to do with the CAGED system, other than the use of E & A families of barre chord shapes, and I should have been more clear about that earlier on.
With all that being said, can you see the “pattern” that I’ve described?
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Yes @Cadgirl , in the key of G major, Em is called the “relative” minor because their scales/keys share the same notes/chords. And so conversely, in the key of Em, G major is the “relative” major.
Extra credit:
1) What is the relative minor in the key of D? 2)What is the relative minor in the key of A? What is the relative major in the key of Am?
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Hi @Cadgirl , remember that the (Am) shape you used to make the Em barre chord (root at the 7th fret A string), when moving it to the 5th fret (root on the loE string), to “shoot the bird” (lift the middle finger – lol) to make the Am & Bm barre chords because they’re made from an Em shape, not the full E shape. The full E shape would result in those chords being major, not minor.
Did you notice that 2 of the chords were barred along the same fret (7th fret) and 1 of the chords was 2 frets towards the head stock?
These 3 chords are the minor chords in the key of G major (occupying the 6-2-3 positions), where Em is the “relative” minor (the minor chord that occupies the 6th position of a major scale). In terms of the key of Em, the chords we played are the 1 minor, 4 & 5 minors respectively where Em is the 1(minor), Am is the 4(minor) and Bm is the 5(minor).
So we used an Am shape barred at the 7th fret to play the Em barre chord (the 1 minor). Then we used an Em shape, also barred at the 7th fret to play the Bm barre chord (the 5 minor). Then we moved that Em shape toward the headstock 2 frets and barred along the 5th fret to play the Am barre chord.
This is the same pattern that was happening when we played the Major 1-4-5 barre chords using an A shape as the 1 chord and the E shape to play the 5 and 4 chords.
I hope you can follow what I’m saying Cadgirl, take a close look at our conversations from your post last week and maybe this will make a little more sense.