Chords for Hammer-on Chords

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_ _ _ _ _ _ Alright, so today we're talking about hammer-ons and how we can incorporate [Dm]
that with chords.
So I'll give you an example. _
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_ _ [Dm] _ _ Alright, so let's look at what I'm doing.
_ _ So I'm using _ one of the very common shapes would be this, _ _ that D minor 7 shape, _ or [C#m] you
know, that's a relative of [F] the F major.
_ _ _ [E] So this works both when you're [C#] playing either [F] one of those chords. _ _
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_ _ So I'm leaving that pinky loose so it can kind of hammer on and off. _ _ _
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_ [C#m] It can go up or down.
[Dm] _
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_ _ [D] _ And so that same shape is movable to that 3, so [Am] we're in the key of C, so the [Dm] 2 is D
minor, _ [F] [D#] and so the 3 would [Em] be E minor.
_ _ _ And so again, that 3 and 5 are relative, so that E minor _ [C] and [G] that G major, _ [F] they're relative
so this works the same way as that 4 and 2. _
_ _ [Em] _ _ [G] _ [E] _ So this works well with [Em] both of those. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ And so another common trick [D] would be over the [Am] 6, _ _ _ so that's A minor. _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
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_ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ So let's put those three ideas together. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ You see that transition a lot when you're working solely in the minor key. _
So let's say if we're treating that D minor as the center, _ _ [F] _ so we're going to borrow from
that [C#] scale and we're going to treat that A instead [Em] of a minor as a [A] dominant 7. _ _ _
And so we're just going to walk down. _ _ _
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_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ [Em] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
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_ _ Alright, so we can also do a couple of hammer-ons on the traditional [D] _ _
_ _ [C] major shape. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ So let's play the top half of that, starting from the D string. _ _ _ _ _ _
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So we know the [F] 1, the 4, and 5 are all major, so we can use that same shape over the 4. _
[Dm] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ What I like to do is actually go [E] _ _ [F] over _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ the [C#] 4 and then over the [G] 5.
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_ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ _ [Em] _ _
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_ _ _ And so we can find that 1 _ _ right there as well.
And so that same shape [D] as the D minor 7 or the F here, or the E minor [G] 7 and the G here,
[C] we can do that right over the C. _ _
_ _ _ And just like we did that minor shape for the A, _ _ we [E] can do that for D. _ _ _ _ _
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So let's kind of put all those ideas together to see what we can come up with, just to spruce
up the scale.
_ _ _ So that's my C.
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[Em] _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
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[Em] _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
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[Em] _ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Am] _
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[Em] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
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_ _ _ _ Alright guys, so really simple ideas, _ really simple concepts, but when we blend all these
licks together, we can create really cool, fluent chords.
[C] I hope this lesson was helpful for you.
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_ _ _ _ [Em] _ Bye! _
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