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Inside Cabin Camp: Modifying Your Chord Shapes with Penny Lea

mandolin intermediate

In this lesson

  • Lesson Preview preview
  • ๐Ÿ”’ Review of Shapes 1, 2, & 3
  • ๐Ÿ”’ Making Minor Shapes
  • ๐Ÿ”’ Making Open 7th Shapes
  • ๐Ÿ”’ Making Closed 7th Shapes

In this Cabin Camp session, Penny Lea reviews the three main major chord shapes and teaches how to turn them into minor and 7th chord shapes! You'll understand how these chords work and how you can modify any chord shape yourself by changing its notes.

For an introduction to the three major chord shapes Penny uses, check out the lesson Mandolin Chord Strategy with Penny Lea.

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  1. Theresa Nickels

    โ™ฅ 2

    I keep losing the timing when I add the backup. Does anyone count this out loud or is that just me?

  2. Patty Lindstrom

    โ™ฅ 7

    Welcome aboard — you picked a good one to start on.

  3. Hollis Barnett

    โ™ฅ 8

    Same here at first. What fixed it for me was practicing that measure by itself for a week, no B part at all.

  4. picknGrin

    โ™ฅ 5

    Take the capo off and play it in open G a few times, then put it back. Helped me hear it.

  5. Ben Clark Instructor

    โ™ฅ 22

    Glad it clicked! That timing is the whole point of this lesson, so if that landed you got what you came for.

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