Working on comping arrangements like this is the perfect way to grow your chord vocabulary and learn to create chord progressions that are both melodic and interesting. Warm up--this one's a workout!
Here are one dozen intensive exercises to help you learn, and use minor triads all over the fingerboard! All, stringsets, all positions, and all inversions. Get your Baroque chops together!
Standard Notation and TAB. 4 1/2 pages.
Third part in a seven part series. Major 6th chord voicings on the bottom four strings, with exercises. A little tricky. Instructional material. 1 page.
A real Major 6th chord workout when practiced in all 12 keys! This handout includes seven exercises combining material from the previous five Major 6th chord studies. One and a half pages.
This is a lot of material. This packet starts off with Major 6th Chord Streams that focuses on I-IV-I progressions. Then there are 24 cool ii-V7-I progressions that resolve on the many 6th chords you've been working on. Pretty challenging stuff! Five pages.
Songs:
1. Turning Point
2. Cactus Dance
3. Wistful Thinking
4. Days
5. Compassion
6. Fear and Censorship (also, it's raining)
7. Inspray
8. end of the Beginning
9. Owen Loves Mzee
10. Lizard Lullaby