{"id":137,"date":"2009-05-15T10:12:23","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T10:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrysenior.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=137"},"modified":"2014-09-28T16:26:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T16:26:07","slug":"6_chords-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henrysenior.co.uk\/wordpress\/6_chords-2\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Chords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartersteelguitars.com\/othervideos\/6string.wmv\">steel tutorial<\/a> the other day. Some useful stuff on there. One thing it touched on, something that I&#8217;d heard players do but hadn&#8217;t got around to trying myself was 6th chords.<\/p>\n<p>A sixth chord is simply a chord with the 6th scale tone added into it.<\/p>\n<p>e.g. C maj contains C, E, G. if you add A then you&#8217;ve got a 6 chord.<\/p>\n<p>Not to diffficult.<\/p>\n<p>What John was saying in this video is that when you have your A and B levers down, you effectively have an A6 tuning on your open strings.<\/p>\n<p><b>Playing Lines with 6th Chords<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Playing strings 6-7-8 at the third fret (to make the example in C) give you C, A and G.<\/p>\n<p>The nice thing about this is that this inversion of C6 puts C at the top so it is a great candidate for playing melodies harmonised with a 6 chord. <\/p>\n<p>Using this little three string chord (2nd inversion C6 with C on top) you can use the top note as your melody note and play tunes with the chord by moving up and down the fret board.<\/p>\n<p>This seems to be a big part of the steel guitar idiom, particularly lap steel.<\/p>\n<p>Another C6 shape you can use is dropping your Es (means something different in Brixton). This gives you a B6 chord on your open strings(excluding the 9th string). If you play strings 5-6-7 in the same position as the A and B lever shape, you get the same 6 chord, but up a tone.<\/p>\n<p>Now I can use a little more lateral movement and dont have to run up and down the fretboard to find your notes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched this steel tutorial the other day. Some useful stuff on there. One thing it touched on, something that I&#8217;d heard players do but hadn&#8217;t got around to trying myself was 6th chords. A sixth chord is simply a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henrysenior.co.uk\/wordpress\/6_chords-2\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">6 Chords<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henrysenior.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henrysenior.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henrysenior.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henrysenior.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henrysenior.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.henrysenior.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/www.henrysenior.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henrysenior.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henrysenior.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henrysenior.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}