You're going to. Oh, Welcome to the guitar music theory

podcast. I'm Desi Cerna, author of Frontboard Theory, Guitar Picking Mechanics, Guitar Theory for Dummies, and more.

This podcast features free guitar lessons that focus on music theory for guitar, including guitar scales, chords,

progressions, modes, composition techniques,

improvisation, and more.

The lessons are geared toward intermediate level players on up.

You can follow along on either an acoustic or electric guitar.

Bass players can take away a lot from the lessons too. Today's podcast episode is a previous recording in which you learn about adding chord tones and extensions to chords. This includes examples of playing

major and minor seventh chords among others. This lesson is based on my book

Frontboard Theory Chapter 10. You're going to introduce you to the concept of playing

chord extensions, adding other intervals to chords such as

seconds, fourths, sixth, seventh, actually I'm going to focus on 7th in this lesson, and it's suitable for intermediate

and advanced level players that want to learn how to build chords more complex than just

basic major and minor chords.

So we're going to get into major seven, dominant seven chords, minor 7 chords, and I'm going to explain what the numbers mean next to chord names

and where these intervals come from and how you build these chords.

Let's get started.

Well, as you've heard me say many times throughout this podcast, music theory topics always

build on the one before it, so it's critical that you lay the proper

foundation and then build from there. So cord extensions, building more complex cords,

actually stems from major scale patterns,

building cords from the major scales.

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