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Summary: Harmonized chords are a great way to experiment with guitar and music. Learn some harmonized chords for B minor from a seasoned musician in this free guitar video.
Stephen Haendiges is a seasoned musician, guitarist, teacher, composer and performer with over 15 years of experience. Stephen has recorded and performed in top clubs all around the...read more
"In this example, I'm going to be playing over a backing track and I'm going to be utilizing harmonized chords, in the key of B minor. And, a harmonized chord is just two chord, or notes, in this case, for example: here D in F sharp and basically it's just a simple chord that you can play and also using the lead contacts and with the backing track it sounds like this. Ok. what I did there is essentially, I kept it very basic, played in the same position pretty much as I was doing with the chords. I started with, which is the latter two notes in B minor and then just walked my way up the scale in a harmonized chord fashion. 5-3, 7-5, 8-7, and then simply did the A on the you know, did 5 on the B and the E strings and the open E which is technically a harmonized chord. And you know, doing simple little passages that over a progression you can create a nice melody line and kind of have a nice filler for your progression."