Banjo Chord Sheets Coming Shortly

Look at this cool picture from 1856, The Banjo Player by William Sidney Mount, pretty neat. Summer has finally arrived in the north east and we are finished with all the end of school year stuff, so back to working on Acoustic Music TV.

We have several new chord sheets coming, a banjo sheet in G tuning, a guitar blank chord sheet and a mandolin blank chord sheet. With the blank chord sheets you can write in your chords for a great way to jot down a song when you are in a hurry.

We also have a new AMTV show coming with the music of Gerry Ryan, finishing up editing should be soon. Thanks everyone for all the great comments and look for the Banjo sheet shortly.

Chord Chart for Mandolin Two Finger G Chords

We received a great email the other day from one of our readers. It had to do with a different 2 finger chord for the (1) One chord for the key of G on the mandolin, the G Chord. This one using the middle two strings, the D and the A strings. I haven’t used this position before but found that it gives a nice bright sound. I often use the lower position for the verses and the higher position for the chorus. This position like the others is movable up and down the fretboard. I think it is brighter sounding because the notes are reversed with the B on the higher string. This fingering can be moved all over the place so try experimenting. Very cool.

Make sure to check out all of our chord and music charts by just signing up over on the right. We love comments so thank you a lot and keep them coming.

Two Finger G Chords for the Mandolin

Here is the full email, thank you Bob for the post.

"I appreciate your website with all those great guitar and mandolin chords. I have been playing fiddle for a few years and within the last year have taken up the mandolin. An old fiddler taught me the major two finger chords for the keys of G (on the two middle strings), D (on the E and A strings) and C (on the D and G strings) and I found that they transferred well to the mandolin. I will see if I can explain them to you.

The two finger G chords are found on the two middle strings; the D and A strings. To find the I (one) chord you fret the B on the A string and the G on the D string. The IV chord (or C Chord) is found by fretting the E on the D string and the C on the A string. The V (or D ) chord is found by fretting the F# on the D string and the D on the A string. If you draw this on the diagram of your mandolin fretboard you will see the pattern (the old fiddler used patterns a lot). Now, you can move that same pattern over to the A and E strings (directly across) and you have the three major chords for the D scale. Move it over to the G and D strings and you have the major C chords.

And, if you move the G chord patterns a couple of frets toward the bridge on the same strings you have the A major chords, etc., etc. You may already be familiar with these patterns, but if you are not I want to tell you that using them is an excellent way to teach mandolin two finger chords. Once a person gets that pattern in his/her mind you can get the chords to any key.

If this is about as "clear as mud" let me know and I will try to clarify it. The old fiddler just told us and as he did I would try to draw it out roughly on a fiddle diagram. Then, I would come home and make a nice copy of it. I have given a number of people copies of my diagrams; both fiddle and mandolin players."

Bob

Blank Guitar Sheet Music Book with Staff and TAB Lines

We have been busy over here at Acoustic Music TV trying to get all of our different publications out. Our latest book is Acoustic Music TV Blank Guitar Sheet Music with Staff and TAB Lines. The book contains 100 Blank Staff and Tab pages with coil binding for easy use. The Staff and TAB lines have also been spread apart to make them easier to write your music on. Includes chord box for each measure.

AMTV Blank Guitar Sheet Music also includes at the back the AMTV Notebook Music Charts for Guitar with fingering for the basic Major, Minor and Seventh Chords. Barre Chords for the 5th and 6th strings, Arpeggio Scales, and a 1, 4, 5 Chord Progression Chart. Also included are our Major Movable Soloing Scale for Folk and Country music, and the Minor Pentatonic Movable Soloing Scale for Blues, Rock or Latin Music for any key. A great resource when you are composing or just playing music.

Our book is available for purchasing at www.lulu.com in either a coil bound version or in a pdf download version.

Blank Mandolin Sheet Music with Staff and Tab Lines

Our newest book for mandolin players. Acoustic Music TV's Blank Mandolin Sheet Music with Staff and TAB Lines. Contains 100 Blank Staff and Tab pages with coil binding for easy use and laying flat. Staff and TAB lines have also been spread apart to make them easier to write on. Includes chord box for each measure. Book also includes at the back the AMTV Notebook Music Charts for Mandolin with fingering for the basic Major, Minor and Seventh Chords, full and 2 finger. Plus Arpeggio Scales, and a 1, 4, 5 Progression Chart. A great resource when you are composing.

The book can be purchased from www.lulu.com in either a coil bound version or in a pdf version

Inside Blank Mandolin Staff and TAB Page

Inside page from our newest book Blank Mandolin Sheet Music with Staff and TAB Lines, available on www.lulu.com and shortly from our AMTV Book Store

2 Finger Mandolin Chord Chart

Above is the second of our two new Mandolin Chord Charts. This is the 2 finger version, also set up in a horizontal format for easy viewing. Contains the Mandolin illustration and color bars to make it easier to read. All seven basic chords are here with fingering for Major, Minor and Sevenths. Easy to download, three hole punch and it is ready to go. Also check out our latest version of the full book which you can purchase on Lulu.com.

New PDF Mandolin Chord Chart

We have updated and released a couple new Mandolin Chord Charts. One of our readers from Germany ask if we could turn the charts to a horizontal orientation making it easier for his student. Yes we can. The free chart still fits nicely into your 3 ring jam book for easy viewing. This chart contains the basic fingerings for all seven basic chords, the major, minor and the 7th. Plus a cool little mandolin drawing. To download sign in over on the right.

New Coil Bound Version of Our Notebook Chord Charts at www.lulu.com

We are please to announce that we now have a coil bound version of our AcousticMusicTV Notebook Music Charts book. It is available at www.lulu.com. This make it easy to carry our charts and have them with you where ever you go. The binding is a coil so they can lie flat or can be folded back to make them easy to view. Check them out at www.lulu.com

Blank Mandolin and Violin Sheet Music

Have you ever tried to write down your Mandolin or Violin music and discovered that the blank sheet music you could find had six lines for the TAB notations instead of the four for mandolin. Well that is what we found along with the lines just to close together. So we remade this one also. Blank sheet music for mandolin and violin, nice and clear with lines well apart for lots of scribbling. Sign up over on the right and download our free mandolin and violin blank sheet music.

Blank Guitar Sheet Music

Our latest post is a blank guitar sheet for writing music. I often found that the lines on the blank sheet music I could find on the web were just to close together. I always wanted a little more room. So that is what we did, expanded it out a little. Just sign up over in the right hand corner and download our pdf blank guitar sheet music. This sheet also works for piano music as well.

PDF Chart for all the Guitar Barre Chords

To make carrying the Barre chord chart a little easier we combined the 5th and 6th string chords into one chart. This gives you all the essential positions for these movable chords. By using both positions you can stay in one basic position on the fret board and look cool at the same time. Also start experimenting with taking a few fingers off the strings for a rougher sound or just use the top three strings and start thinking about triads. Download over on the right.

Ukulele Chord Chart

The Ukulele is growing and growing in popularity, this free pdf chart has the basic essential chords to get you going. This is the coolest of instruments. The Ukulele can do way more than just Hawaiian music. If you ever get a chance to catch Pete Kennedy of the Kennedys and watch him play Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue you will be amazed at what can happen. A great source to get started is with the books of Jim Beloff and his Jumpin' Jim's series of Ukulele song book. Jim breaks it all down to really nice and clear instructions and a wide range of music. We have a couple his books on the Uke page on the pdf download site.

Learn to Play the 7th Chords on Guitar

Learn how to play the Sevenths, 7ths, guitar chords in this step-by-step video from AcousticMusicTV.com. Each seventh chord, A7, B7, C7, D7, E7, F7 and Gm is demonstrated and includes an onscreen fingering chord chart. The 7th chords are perfect for adding the blues feeling to your music and are essential for every player. The video shows the fingerings for each 7th guitar chord chart. A great way to get started learning basic sevenths guitar chords.

To download all of our free pdf music charts just sign up below the cover in the upper right hand side of the site. As always we love comments.

Movable Arpeggio Scale for Any Guitar Key

In music, an arpeggio is a broken chord where the notes are played or sung in sequence, one after the other, rather than ringing out simultaneously. The word, like many other musical terms, originates from Italian, in which it means "in the manner of the harp". These are formed from scales, The arpeggio is based on the relative scale playing the "key" notes or those affected the the key signature. For more information on arpeggios check out Wikipedia.

This pattern can be moved up and down the fret board depending on the key you are in. Find your starting or root note on either the 6th or the 1st string. Then you can play combinations of these notes based on this pattern for soloing or accents to your songs.

For soloing, play any of these notes over any of the chords of the key you are in. I find the higher notes on the top often work better, but low notes are cool also.

Remember you can download any of our free pdf charts by signing up just below the book cover in the upper right hand corner of the page or fill in the sign up box.

Minor Petnatonic Movable Soloing Scale for Blues, Rock, or Latin

Our latest chart is a soloing scale for the Minor Pentatonic Scale for Blues, Rock or Latin music for any key.

This pattern is used for playing guitar solos for blues, rock or latin songs. It is a movable pattern because all of the strings are closed and it can be used for any key. Starting on the 6th string locate the note that matches the key you are playing in. You can now play this pattern or parts of it over the chords of the key and it should sound pretty good, i.e. key of C starts on the C note at the 8th fret on the 6th string, G would start at the 3rd fret.

You can play notes from this pattern while someone else plays the song. Or put some notes in at the end of a phrase for an accent or solo.

Movable Soloing Scale for Folk or Country Music, Any Key

This chart shows a Major Movable Soloing Scale for Folk or Country Music for any key. Great for playing soloing notes over a song while someone else is playing or you can use it to add accent notes to your own playing.

This pattern is used for playing guitar solos for folk and country songs. It is a movable pattern because all of the strings are closed and it can be used for any key. Starting on the 6th string locate the note that matches the key you are playing in. You can now play this pattern or parts of it over any of the chords of the key and it should sound pretty good, i.e. key of C starts on the C note at the 8th fret on the 6th string, key of A would start at the 5th fret. For the key of G some of the notes use the guitar nut or are open strings.

I find that the higher notes on strings 1 and 2 stand out better because of the pitch but all of them work.

PDF of Guitar Barre Chords on the 6th String

Above is our guitar Barre Chord chart for root notes on the 6th string. The 6th string Barre Chords may be a more common but the advantage of knowing both 5th and 6th is that you don't have to move your hand around as much, the chords for each key are all right there.

Let say you are playing the blues in A. You can put on a Barre Chord at the 5th fret of the E string. The IV chord or the D chord is just below it on the 5th string , just move down one string to the D string 5th fret and you are in a D chord. The fingering is a little different, check out the 5th String Chart. Slide the hand up the fret board 2 frets to the E note and you have the 5th or V chord or E chord. The blues, I, IV, V or A, D and E, make your 7ths and you have the blues.

PDF of Guitar Barre Chords on the 5th String

"Barre chords (also known as barré chords and bar chords, but more commonly spelled as "barre") are a type of guitar chord where one or more fingers are used to press down multiple strings across the guitar fingerboard (like a bar pressing down the strings). Barring the strings enables the guitarist to play a chord not restricted by the tones of the guitar's open strings. Barre chords are often referred to as "moveable" chords, as they can be moved up and down the neck as needed. They are commonly used in most popular and classical music and are frequently used in combination with "open" or standard guitar chords. They are typically used for more complex chord voicings and playing in keys not suitable for the more basic open chords of the first position of a standard-tuned guitar." Wikipedia

As you move along the path of learning guitar you will need to learn Barre Chords. They open up your music and let you play many different variations of a great many chords. You will be able to add different voicings and effects to your playing. You will learn to play a full barre or partials like triads and such. They also allow you to move up the neck so you can look cool. They are essential to fuller more richer playing. We have two Barre Chord charts, this one is for chords based on the root notes on the 5th string, and we will shortly put a chart for root notes on the 6th string.

Be sure to download the chart, just click on the NoteBook picture in the upper right hand corner of the site.

Free PDF Mandolin Movable Arpeggio Scale

What is an arpeggio, from Wikipedia "an arpeggio is a broken chord where the notes are played or sung in sequence one after the other, rather than ringing out simultaneously" like if you are strumming. " An arpeggio in the key of C major going up two octaves would be the notes (C, E, G, C, E, G, C)."

Our latest chart is a Movable Mandolin Arpeggio Scale. Using the fingering above you can create an arpeggio scale for any key. This is done by finding the root note of the key you are in and then using the finger positions above to create your scale. This makes it very easy to produce notes for a solo or accents to the song you are playing.

To download your free pdf copy for your jam notebook just click on the NoteBook graphic in the upper right hand corner. We have also updated and added to the chart download site our free mandolin chord charts, ukulele charts and soloing charts and blank sheet music pages.

Learn How to Play the Minor Guitar Chords

The second video in our series on Learning Chords for the Guitar. This video is on how to play the Minor Guitar Chords, Am, Bm, Cm, Dm, Em, Fm, and Gm. Each chord is explained with two video views and a finger chart. Remember that we have free pdf chord charts that can be downloaded and printed out for your music jam notebook.

Free PDF 2 Finger Movable Chord I, IV, V Progression Chart

Using our 2 Finger Mandolin Progression Chart you can play the basic I, IV, V Chord progression in any key with Major, Minor and the 7th Chord. Simple to figure out and use. This chart also shows you how the progressions fit together. This allows you to mix and match and give your music color and life. You just need to identify the root chord for the key on the fret board and you can move up or down. Each chord can be found in several places.

On a personal note, thank you for all the kind messages and notes we have been getting from blog viewers about our charts, they are very nice. I have worked on figuring these charts out starting 10 years when I started learning Guitar and then moved to Mandolin with a side trip to Ukulele. I have put a real push on the the last years and then a big push in the last two months to get them finished. With a big thanks to my friend Bo who suggested "hey how about adding color to make them better". So thank you all and I have a few more coming, but at the moment I am working on filling in the download pages with some of my favorite products.

Free PDF 2 Finger Mandolin Chord Chart

Our second of our 4 Mandolin charts, the 2 Finger Mandolin Chord Chart. The two finger mandolin chart contains the Major, Minor and 7th Chords, plus a fret board chart. Also included are several alternative fingerings for G, Gm, G7, Em and D. The pdf mandolin two finger chord chart is available for free to download and printout for your jam notebook right after you sign up over on the right.

I play the two finger chords most of the time, and what is great about them is that there are easy to find from the several to chose from on the mandolin. (I should do a video on this) The different voices, high and low, are great for getting different colorings for between the verses and choruses. To get your free pdf mandolin chord charts just fill in the sign up form on the right. Plus we are also now offering a printed cover stock, 3 hole punch version.

Free PDF Mandolin Charts for Each Chord

Mandolin full fingering chart for each chord, Major, Minor and Seventh. Also includes a mandolin fret board with notes marked. The mandolin has seemed to just grow and grow in popularity over the last few years. It is a fun instrument to play and on of the most requested of our chord charts. It is great instrument to accompany others with and I find no one asks you to lead a song in a jam circle because the guitar players can't figure out what chords you are playing. Which is great for those of us who have memorized 4 million songs. How do they do it?

We have three more Mandolin charts to go up in the next few days so keep watching. This is one of the set of NoteBook Music Chart designed for carrying in your music jam book. To get your free pdf set just sign up on the sign up form in the upper right hand corner. We also now have actually real copies you can buy, check out the column to the right.

Learn How to Play the Major Guitar Chords

We have just completed our latest step-by-step video on how to play the major guitar chords. Each chord, A, B, C, D, E, F and G is explained with an on-video chord chart and a demonstration. The video shows the fingerings for each chord. Our free printable guitar chords charts match up with this video and make a great addition. Just sign up in the order form on the right to get yours today.

Guitar Fingering Chord Charts for I, IV, V, and V7 Positions

Above is the updated Acoustic Music TV guitar chord key chart. It includes all 7 guitar keys A, B, C, D, E, F, G with their 1, 4, 5 and V7 fingerings in first position. Our charts make a great reference to add to your jam notebook. To download your free pdf copy for your jam notebook just sign up on the right. Make sure you also confirm the email that you will receive after signing up. We have also updated and added to the chart download site our free mandolin chord charts, ukulele charts and soloing charts and blank sheet music pages.

New PDF Chord Charts Are Up and Ready for Downloading

HI, all, we have loaded up the Free Guitar, Mandolin, and Ukulele Chord and Music Charts in pdf format. Just sign up on over in the sign up form on the right to access our pdf printable chord charts.

We have guitar charts have the seven basic chords with Major, Minor and 7th chords, plus a chart with the Seven Keys in 1, 4, 5 and V7 with fingering in first position.

5th and 6th string Barre Chords Charts. Movable Arpeggio Scales for Guitar, and Mandolin, I looked for a long time to try to figure how to show this. Also available is a chart with movable soloing scales for the Minor Pentatonic Blues, Rock, and Latin scale and one for the Folk and Country scales. Mandolin with full finger basic chords and the 2 finger chords and the 1, 4, 5 progression in two finger chords.

Going back to my childhood and my own ukulele, we have a ukelele chord chart including Major, Minor, and 7th and as an extra bonus blank sheet music for guitar, mandolin and violin. Our sheet music has the lines a little further than normal so it is easier to fill in the notes.

Each chart is a free downloadable printable chord chart, showing fingering and positions, and designed to be printed and 3 hole punched and used in your music jam book. Charts are produced so that they are easy to read and will be a ready reference for your playing.

So just sign up on over on the right side of the site. You will need to confirm the email that you receive and there will be a link to take you to the download page.

Free Major pdf Guitar Chord Diagram Chart

Above is our new updated Acoustic Music TV FREE Guitar Chord Chart. A nice simple to read pdf that you can download. Chord chart illustrates the 7 major guitar chords. Showing the basic Major, Minor and the 7th fingerings for each chord. Perfect for 3 hole punching and adding to your jam notebook. Take it with you everywhere. We have added in some color to make it easier to read while you are jamming on a dark porch with your friends. This is a great resource for learning guitar chords, beginners or advance. The guitar chord diagrams show just where your fingers should go. Just sign up on the right to get the free printable guitar chord chart.

Chuck Williams at the Narrows - Acoustic Music TV

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Join Chuck Williams at the Narrows in Fall River on Acoustic Music TV. It was a freezing cold night, but a lot fun. Enjoy as we listen with songs and interview from Chuck.

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Connect With Fans (CwF) + Reason To Buy (RtB) = The Business Model ($$$$)

A must see video by Mike Masnick of TechDirt for musicians large and small and the music industry on how Trent Resnor and Nine Inch Nails markets their music using the Connect With Fans (CwF) + Reason To Buy (RtB) = The Business Model ($$$$). By following this model and connecting with your fans and letting go to get, success will follow.