Advance Guitar Chord Course

Building on the foundation of Guitar Chords, this course is the next level in approach to guitar study, one in which players focus on the individual notes that make up a chord, rather than on the chord's shape. Advanced Guitar Chords provide essential technical training that will improve your style, intonation, technique, time feel, and tone.

The course starts where Guitar Chords leaves off—with an in-depth exploration into the construction of open triads, seventh chord structures, and inversions of complex chord forms. You'll move on to learn popular fingerstyle patterns, alternate tuning options, major and minor bebop scales and voice-leading through chord scales.

Your studies will take you through a variety of genres and focus on a number of legendary artists and guitarists, including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Look at a lead sheet and play chord voicings, with harmonized melodies using seventh chords, open triadic shapes, and inversions in several musical styles

• Have a greater knowledge of constructing open triads, seventh chord structures, and inversions of complex chord forms

• Play and know some basic approaches to chordal playing using fingerstyle patterns, Travis picking, Brazilian Bossa Nova styles, and some alternate tuning options

• Play and use quartal modal voicings, as well as some advanced jazz chord substitutions

Advance Guitar Chords Content

Lesson 1: Inversions of Seventh Chords, Triads, and Open Triads

• Review of Seventh Chord Shapes

• Seventh Chord Summary: The Big Seven

• Chord Spelling Etude

• Drop-2 Drop-3

• Seventh Chord Inversions: Major 7 and Dominant 7

• Chord Melody: Harmonizing Melodies with Triads

• Open Major and Minor Triads

Lesson 2: Chord Melody and More Open Triads

• Chord Melody: Harmonizing All Scale Notes

• Diatonic Open Triads

• Inversions of Triads: Open Diminished Shapes

• Inversions of Triads: Open Augmented Shapes

Lesson 3: More Inversions, Crossovers, Chord Melody, and More Open Triads

• Inversions of Seventh Chords: Minor 7 and Minor 7b5

• Crossovers 1 C and F Blues

• Working with Diatonic Inversions: Drop 2 Chords on Strings 5, 4, 3, and 2

• Chord Melody "House of the Rising Sun"

• Open Triads with I IV V I

Lesson 4: Fingerstyle Patterns and the C–A–G–E–D Approach

• Basic Fingerstyle Patterns

• Travis Picking Basics

• C–A–G–E–D Approach to Chordal Playing

• Chord Melody Tune: Avalon by Vincent Rose

Lesson 5: Harmonic Minor Voicings and Bossa Nova Fingerstyle Patterns

• Harmonic Minor Voicings

• Fingerstyle Patterns: Basic Brazilian Rhythm Patterns

• Crossover/Transfer Example

• Chord Melody

Lesson 6: Melodic Minor and Advanced Chord Substitutions

• Melodic Minor Diatonic Chords

• Melodic Minor Harmonies Used for Chord Melody

• Major 6/9 Voicings: Substituting Dominant 7sus 4 Chords for Major Chord Sounds

• Range Considerations for Chord Voicings

• Crossover Tune: "Back Home Again in Indiana"

Lesson 7: Melodic Minor Harmonies and Modal Voicings

• Use of Melodic Minor Derived Harmonies

• Modal Voicings: Quartal Harmonies

• Inversions of Maj7/Maj6/Min6/Dim7/Min7b5

Lesson 8: Open Tunings: Slash Chords Revisited and More

• Slash Chords and Inversions of Slash Chords

• CAGED Part 2: Use of Capo

• Drop D Tuning: "Dear Prudence"

• Open G Tuning: "Start Me Up"; Basic Chord Shapes

• Chet Atkins/Jerry Reed Style

• Harmonizing Melodies with Quartal and Slash Chord Harmonies

• Rhythmic Interpretation

Lesson 9: Major and Minor Bebop Diatonic Scales and Alternate Tunings

• Scale Descriptions: Major/Minor Bop

• Harmonizing Bop Scales

• Fingerstyle Patterns with Bop Scales

Lesson 10: Harmonic Major and Voice Leading through Chord Scales

• Harmonic Major Harmonies

• Voiceleading through the Major Scale (Goodrick-Style Interval Sets)

Lesson 11: Voicings from Symmetrical Scales

• Chords from the Symmetrical Diminished Scale

• Chords from the Symmetrical Augmented Scale

• Voiceleading through Melodic Minor with Interval Sets

Lesson 12: Putting It All Together: Summary

• Voiceleading through Major, Melodic Minor, Harmonic Minor, and Harmonic Major

• Rhythm Chord Basic Shapes

• Chord Melody Final

Dolce Music Institute

Dolce Music Institute is a premier western music school in Hyderabad, India. Founded by a skilled musician Alexander in 1999,it caters over 400 students every year and is regarded as one of the best music institutes in Hyderabad with a highly experienced and qualified faculty.The emphasis is not just on individual performance but also on ensemble playing, aural development and musical appreciation. Courses for Western classical instrumental training, Piano, Keyboard, Acoustic/Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar, Violin, Music Theory, Songwriting and specialized courses like Flamenco,Jazz and Blues Guitar outlines are catered. Classes are generally held on a one to one basis. The students can also give Certification exams for Classical music from The Trinity college of London, The London college of Music and The Associate Board of Royal School of Music.

As each day dawns, new challenges await. In this changing scenario, it is quite imperative for us to train our youth to stand aloft in this age of cut-throat competition. Within a short period,the institute has been successful in spreading its wings. This would not have been possible without the incredible support of students, staff members & other generous members of the society. Apart from the regular classes, several workshops by visiting artists and other musicians are also regularly conducted which provide musical interaction for the students. Periodic pupil’s concerts and other events help to develop the performance skills of the students.

The school has put a special focus on its website by providing many add on services through it. Students and other visitors can now interact with each other and share information on the website. People can request for chords or tabs of particular songs which are posted in due time. Students and visitors can also sell and buy music instruments (brand new and second hand) on the website. The website also gives latest happening events in and around Hyderabad. Also the school regularly posts new informational articles on music (general and technical) to help young musicians. The website also helps the budding musicians by providing them a platform to promote their music by uploading songs on the website.

Our Mission

• To provide a platform for musically inclined people to get formal but personalized training in western music.

• To constantly innovate in our methods of teaching.

• To become the one stop solution for any service related to music in the country.

• To nurture talents, give them professional skills and develop their creative potential for successful careers in music.

• To promote values and well being through music.