Continued...This is not rock its more T Bone Walker. Take out the 5th and distort and its almost rock. Knowing these voicing or neck position for each octave center is where branches are formed.
Next thing you know you are voice leading heading back around in the cyclical I, iv V diatonic scale. All really good guitar players know this stuff and I wish I could say I did to this depth but you see players like Reverend Horton Heat and Brian Setzer and Carl Perkins all up and down and all around that 'ole neck. Besides Jazz and Swing I would say if you had any aspirations to play rockabilly you would want to know these chords.
The big plus here is your teacher Mike Dowling and the way he explains the notes of the chords that you already probably know. Mike shows you how to take out the extra notes and slide up and down the neck and play 10th chords a la Freddie Green style. Chord substitution, swing rhythm vamps, jump style syncopations, diminished chords and 9th chord blues examples abound and will enhance your technique when playing alone or with others. Sounds easy don't it?
The menu looks like this: Intro, Back home in Indiana, Tuning, Open position 3 note chords, 24 bar blues, 24 with more chord inversions, Vamps, Gm vamps, Right hand technique, RHT 24 bar blues, Deadening string technique, 24 bar 3 guitar and fiddle, diminished passing chords, 24 bar blues with bass, ninth chords, Bee Bop, Sheik of Araby, Its backing techniques, rhythmic solo, G chords at rest tension triad chords - chorus - blues, Beaumont Rag, - the rag explained.
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