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Guitar, standard tuning. |
Sometime last summer, DeRamos Music finally got around to resurrecting our old Chord du Jour blog -- but this time, on
Facebook. At the beginning of October, we started an experiment in graphic design and music education: We limited each design to four colors and tried to make each image a self-contained bit of music knowledge. In other words, if a beginner musician was stuck on a deserted island with one guitar-related Chord du Jour poster and a guitar, then that person would have enough information to write and play for days or weeks or months or even an entire lonely career! Obviously that's a lofty and overly idealistic goal, but I think some of our four-chord designs cover a lot of popular music songwriting, which says a lot about the state of popular music songwriting.
We're currently on our fifth week of these designs, which could one day fill a coffee table book, or at least fill up a redesigned Chord du Jour website. Our goal is to have 18 weeks of these images, at five designs per week, or an entire school semester of music "lessons." Here's a sampling of what four colors, four chords, and perhaps the truth can do:
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Four guitar chords. |
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Four piano (keyboard) chords. |
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Two scales on the fretboard. |
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Two basic drum patterns. |
Please check out our progress on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/chorddujour
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