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Chord Interval Finger Workout Drill

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Tagged: C shape, Lesson

  • This topic has 7 replies, 7 voices, and was last updated 3 days, 11 hours ago by John H.
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    • August 25, 2026 at 10:18 am #421605
      Bill
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        Just recorded a short video to show how chord tones relate to a C shape chord on the G string. Also a good finger workout to get your pinky involved. Cool way to add some
        Motion to a chord if you are sitting on it for several measures.

      • August 25, 2026 at 10:28 am #421608
        JoeD1
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          Nice, thanks Bill.

          Joe

          The sight of a touch, or the scent of a sound,
          Or the strength of an Oak with roots deep in the ground.
          --Graeme Edge

        • August 25, 2026 at 1:26 pm #421619
          Dieter
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            Very interesting.

            Dieter

          • August 25, 2026 at 2:21 pm #421622
            Michael Krailo
            Participant

              Very cool Bill. I would normally use my pinky to play that root on that triad shape and adjust the fingering as it went up. But it goes to show there is more than one way to do everything on guitar. More importantly, this gets everyone clearly visualizing these important intervals. So thanks for the quick but effective demo. I’m sure everyone picked up their guitar after watching 🙂

              Root note patterns >>> CAGED shapes >>> TRIAD'S. Just put in the work and watch your guitar skills soar.

            • August 26, 2026 at 12:16 am #421645
              sunjamr
              Participant

                Nice one Bill. For a minute I thought someone put the strings on your guitar backward, but then I realized I had just popped into one of those pesky mirror universes. Lately I just keep on popping in and out of alternate universes.
                And I ask myself, “Well, how did I get here?”
                And, “How do I work this?”
                And, “Where is that large automobile?”
                And I think, “This is not my beautiful house”
                And I think, “This is not my beautiful wife”

                Sunjamr Steve

                • August 26, 2026 at 5:17 am #421651
                  Bill
                  Participant

                    🤔😬
                    It’s also late summer in this universe!

                • August 26, 2026 at 3:43 am #421647
                  Martin W
                  Participant

                    That is a cool little run , and a fun exercise highlighting those intervals around the chord shape and pentatonic scale ,I can see myself using this a lot .
                    Thanks for sharing.

                    Martin

                  • August 28, 2026 at 6:47 am #421723
                    John H
                    Participant

                      Nice Bill-thanks for this. Something to work on that looks useful and fun.

                      John

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