Family of Chords

These chords are somehow related. Don’t know why. But for now, you could practice transitioning between the members of each family.

C-F-G

D-G-A

E-A-B

F-A#-C

G-C-D

A-D-E

B-E-F#

Hotel California

Bm F# A E

G D Em F#

More coming…as if you can play the above

A# Minor Chord

A# C# F

X
E	A	D	G	B	E
	O	O	O	O	O
				2
		3	4

This is nothing but, slide down one fret from A minor chord and apply a barre.

F Minor Chord

F G# C

E	A	D	G	B	E
O	O	O	O	O	O
	3	4

Relative Minor

One way of looking at it –

Take a Major Scale, lets say C. The notes in the scale are –

C D E F G A B C

Start from the sixth note, that is A and play all the notes from there on, following the same pattern

A B C D E F G A

This is the Relative Minor of the C Major Scale. This also happens to be A Minor (Natural)

Another way is to use a rule that goes like this –

Pick the scale for which you want a Natural Minor, take its root note and then use this rule –

Go back one tone and one semi tone from the Root node on the Chromatic Scale to find the relative minor of the scale.

The Chromatic Scale is – C C# D D# E F F# G G# A A# B

Now, the relative minors of the scales.

C -> Am

D -> Bm

E -> C#m

F -> Dm

G -> Em

A -> F#m

B -> G#m

C# -> A#m

D# -> Cm

F# -> D#m

G# -> Fm

A# -> Gm

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Jab koi baat bigad jaye...... (movie - jurm)
######################

-------E----------------------F#m------------
jab koi bat bigad jaaye, jab koi mushkil pad jaye
-----B----------A------E-----------------------
tum dena saath mera, o hum nawaaa


The whole song goes like this.

Sumanth Sir's comments - A good song to practice transition between F#m and B and A

Pentatonic Minor and Major Patterns

Sa (Pent. Minor) & Dha(Pent. Major)

E	A	D	G	B	E
1	1	1	1	1	1
	3	3	3
4				4	4

Ga (Pent. Minor) & Sa(Pent. Major)

E	A	D	G	B	E
	1	1	1
2				2	2
			3
4	4	4		4	4

Ma (Pent. Minor) & Re(Pent. Major)

E	A	D	G	B	E
			1
2	2	2		1	1
4	4	4	4		3
				4

Pa (Pent. Minor) & Ga(Pent. Major)

E	A	D	G	B	E
1	1	1	1		1
				2
		3	3
4	4			4	4

Ni (Pent. Minor) & Pa(Pent. Major)

E	A	D	G	B	E
		1	1
2	2			2	2
4	4	4	4	4	4