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CT-005 Chord progressions with new triad shapes

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About this resource

Students often start out with chord by learning basic open chord shapes, then move on to some standard barre chord shapes. At that point any chord progressions they come up with usually only use those shapes. This is a problem because it restricts the student to only one or two voicings per chord. Compare this to a Jazz guitarist who understands how to create any chord in any inversion anywhere on the fretboard. The goal of this Creative Challenge is to help your student learn to develop this valuable skill.

Once students learn to come up with new chord shapes anywhere on the fretboard for any chord, they will begin to come up with more interesting chord progressions and start to understand the fretboard better.

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WCH-03 Finding Chords Across the Neck

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About this worksheet

This worksheet links up to the guitar lesson plan INT-06. It will give your student practice in finding new chord positions across the neck. It's a basic resource you can print again and again whenever you want your student to learn a different chord. You simply pick a chord and fill out the chord diagram then the student will need to write down new positions for the chord on the fretboard diagram as well as write out the new positions in Guitar TAB. This is an excellent way for your student to really understand the layout of the fretboard and after the student uses this worksheet a few times they will start to find the positions faster and easier.

This worksheet will help your student:

  • Understand the fretboard and quickly find correct notes
  • Create new chord positions all over the fretboard
  • Practice writing out Guitar TAB as well as on a fretboard diagram
  • Understand the theory behind the chords

This worksheet is most effective when you give it to your student right after walking through the INT-06 guitar lesson plan.

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INT-06 Finding new chords across the neck