Chords for Robben Ford Guitar Lesson - Altered Five & Home Demo - Solo Revolution: Diminished Lines

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_ _ So to be clear about this _ _ _ diminished five chord to the one chord,
_ _ _ _ _ there may be a little bit of confusion because if we're in the key of G, _ _
_ and we want to go to our four chord, _ _
_ _ _ [C#m] _ _ I play [D] G diminished [B] [Gm] to _ get to the four chord. _
_ _ _ The language can get a little bit confusing _ because _ _ _ _ we're saying that we're in the key of G.
Like we're playing a G [G] blues.
_ _ _ _ So _ _ _ _ _ _ the G [G#] diminished scale _ [B] _ _ _ _ is an altered five chord.
_ It's not an altered one chord.
So right there you have some confusion, right? _ _
_ _ Any seventh chord is a [G] five chord _ _ _ because it wants to go _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ home to its central headquarters.
If you play a [G] G7, _
_ _ [B] _ _ you're playing a [F] C major [G] scale.
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ [G] _ _ G is 7 is going to go [C] to C _ _ major. _
_ _ _ _ _ [Dm] So _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [A#] G diminished [E] wants _
[G] _ _ _ [B] _ [C] to go to C.
[G] And that's why it works in the blues because it's an altered five chord.
It becomes _ _ _ [A#]
[B] altered.
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
And it's the way _ that the five chord is supposed to work.
So you use that chord, you use that altered scale to take you home to the key that you're actually in.
When we play the altered five chord [Dm] _ here _ at the end of a blues,
D _ wants to go to G. _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
[F#] _ [G] _ _ _ Right?
_ [Gm] _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ G wants to go to C. _ _
_ [E] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ [G] Any seventh chord is a five chord.
We talk about it as the one as if we're in the key of G. _ _
But if you play the scale, I used to call it the G7 scale [B] [D] because _ _ _ [A] I didn't know what else to [D] call it.
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ [D] _ [C] Because I didn't know it was C major. _
[G] _ [F] _ _ [E] _ _ [C] _ _
Again, [A] you have to hear these things.
You have to hear it.
You have to be listening and go, oh yeah, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ that's C [Am] major. _
[B] _ _ [E] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] We're just starting on the fifth degree.
_ [C] One, [Em] two, three, [F] [G] four, five.
_ _ _ [Dm] _
_ [G] _ _ Sounds like G, right? _
[A] _ _ _ _ Which has a [E] flatted seventh.
_ [B] _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
[C] _ _ _ It's a C major chord.
You play a seventh [G] chord, _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ [E] you're playing _ [C] a C major [G] scale _ with the fifth in the root. _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ [E] Altered _ _ [D] _
_ [C] _ _ takes you to the four chord of a [Gm] blues.
_ [E] _ _ Altered five chord in the key of G [Dm] [D] will _ [B] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ take you to G.
_ _ [C]
So I hope that's clear.
I think that's the best I can do on that subject.
I understand that it can be confusing.
_ But it's just a language barrier, you know?
_ Listen to it.
Get it with your ear.
That's really what you need to do.
And I also always recommend the piano. _ _
Sit down at the piano.
The white keys of the piano are the key of C.
It's a beautiful thing.
_ _ Put a G in the root _ _ and play a G7 chord, _ C major scale.
You can see it.
It's right there.
Oh yeah, okay.
_ And in fact, that's the modes. _
Basically, it's called the Mixolydian mode.
And that would really be the proper language to refer to it.
It's modal.
That's what the modes are.
But it's still just C major with a G in the root.
Okay.
You know, simple.
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