Step 2 builds on the same idea, but now we bring the A-form onto the fretboard. At this point, you’ve got both the E-form and A-form working together.
(In the video, I shift everything up a semitone to B♠to get away from the nut -- it’s much easier to see what’s going on without open strings in the mix.)
We’ve now covered more than half the neck with chord tones, and we’re well on the way to completing the “superchord” for dominant 7th chords. We’ll finish that in Step 3.
This concept applies to every chord type — major, major 7thminor, minor 7th, 9th, diminished, augmented, m7â™5… all of it. Once you can see these superchords across the neck, you can create parts freely in real time: melodic lines, double stops, multiple voicings -- whatever the music calls for.
Is it daunting? Yes! Everything about playing guitar is daunting. But there’s a constant hidden in plain sight within all of these superchords -- something you can rely on to make sense of the whole system. That constant is the subject of my course, PlaneTalk Online.
Below is a graphic of the E and A forms locked together on the fingerboard. Stay till the end of video as I talk you through this graphic.
