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 how the spaces between

chords are filled with passing chords. This includes a discussion on

chromatic passing chords, diminished chords, and augmented chords. This lesson is based on

my book Freeport Theory, volume 2, chapter 5. You're going to. Hi, this is Desi Cerna. CERN. Composers and players use passing chords in a progression, similar to the way that they use

passing notes in a scale. Just as you can use chromatic passing notes between different scale

degrees. You can use different chromatic passing chords

to connect different chords.

Now this will often include using diminished chords, but it could be something as simple as just taking a major or minor chord from the major scale and moving it up or down by a half step as you move to the next chord.

And that's where we're going to start.

If you're in a major scale, playing the major scale

chord sequence, for example, let's say you're in the key of F. You've got seven chords in the scale, some are a couple or a half step apart, most of them are a whole step apart.

The notes, the chords that are a whole step apart could be connected chromatically by simply just moving one of the chords up or down and

filling that space as you transition to the next chord.

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