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fused27th August 2008Wow, doing this on an acoustic and it certainly sounds great..and makes the fingers work a little....
As always, your lessons are excellent.
Thanks for sharing this.
melodious26th May 2008David, your explanations are always very thorough and make the concepts easier to understand. Nice lesson and great job!!!!
Melodicintenions4th April 2008that was for the Love of god Steve vai Worthy material in his balad state of playing amazing
malvax19th March 2008Compliments, very very nice!!
RIP Dime4th March 2008Just started learning this, and it really opened my eyes to the fact that I can make up many different ways to play any chord, this is gonna really spice up my songs. Thanks David!
Carlos Carrillo21st February 2008Hey David!!!good job!!!Great lesson...Very creative...
David Wallimann25th January 2008Haha!
Thanks guys..
Juan, It's not a new hair cut, but I straightened my hair that day with my wife's hair straightner... :-)- RIP Dime25th January 2008
Really nice. I just gotto say, dear god your hands are huge, makes that Parker look like a short scale!
preownedguitar25th January 2008Reminds me of Chinese or Japanese foreign film music. I like it.
Juan M. Valero24th January 2008cool lesson David !!! Danger, some this chords are a bit difficult to play !!!!
Another question... Do you have a new haircut ???
Hisham Al-Sanea24th January 2008nice lesson walliman
Dejan Farkas24th January 2008Beautiful harmonies
Gerardo Siere24th January 2008Nice
- David Wallimann24th January 2008
Thanks so much for all your comments.
For the violins, I used East West Symphonic orchestra.
And no, this is not taken from my next album, although it could be... ;-)
More to come on that soon... 
Fran24th January 2008Interesting, and cool backing too
- stratman3324th January 2008
Beautiful, to bad my hands are to small to play it
The Uncreator24th January 2008Beautiful, perhaps a look at something on one of your future records?
- AndyCH24th January 2008
Really great! I love it.
Pablo Vazquez24th January 2008excellent!! Good work!
at lights end24th January 2008great! my hands could do with a bit of a stretch.
- Maximus24th January 2008
Good job David.
The Spartan24th January 2008Hey David,awesome lesson but what program did u use to create the backing? I'm talking about the violin ensemble btw
Muris Varajic24th January 2008Sounds wonderful Dave,love the progression!!
Toni Suominen24th January 2008Great lesson David!
boy_sets_fire724th January 2008wonderful!
kyldeee24th January 2008This is Beautiful David, I'm gonna have to learn this one.. Thanks
Marcus Lavendell24th January 2008Beautiful!
PacmanProductions Reborn24th January 2008Daaaannnggg.... now thats what i call feeling....
i was trying to make a progression similar to this on acoustic for practice last night... WELL I GUESS I FOUND IT!!!
coffeeman24th January 2008Beautiful lesson, David. Never seen you so concentrated.
Bogdan Radovic24th January 2008Great tune and chords there and very expressively (i hope its the word I'm looking for) played !! Beautiful backing too..
DeepRoots24th January 2008Soo beautiful David, my playing is really missing this at the moment, Thanks!
Kristofer Dahl24th January 2008Wow this is beautiful David + I really need to catch up on my chord knowledge, thanks!
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Welcome to the beautiful world of extended chords! Today we'll explore the unlimited potential of chord building.
In this simple piece, we'll take the basic chords of the track and add to them a few extra notes to make then sound deeper and more melodic. To do that, we need to know which key we're in so that once we have the basic chords, we can pick within the scale some aditional notes.
This lesson is built around the following simple chords:
Am - F - G - Em
F - G - Am - Am
Bb - C - F - G
Am - F - G - G
Am
The previous chord progression is in the key of Am (see chart below) except for the Bb chord which is taken from the key of F Maj (see chart).
The goal in this lesson is to create new extended chords using the basic chords above along with the following charts as a guideline as of which possible notes we can add to the chords.
Have fun!
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