Guitar Noir

Guitar Noir Lesson

Tuning:
Guitar Noir is in CG DGad tuning (DADGAD with the bottom two strings down a whole step).
It's in C minor, a nice, dark, very noir key with this tuning.

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Chord Breakdown

• C minor
• F
• F sharp minor (adding a 9)
• G augmented 7 chord (with a sharp 9)
• G sharp
• Interesting cluster of an F13 (actually over an A)
• D minor 7, flat 5 (which is the two chord in C minor)

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Sequence and Soloing

• Moving from AB7 to a G7 is pretty much the shape of the tune.
• It's not a complicated tune; it's just a head, really.
• Let me play it through from the top one more time.

When I'm soloing:

• I'm really playing over that chord sequence.
• For example, if I'm on the C minor, I often move a little higher and build around these chord shapes.

Example Chord Shapes

• F sharp
• F minor (add the third string open for an F minor 9)
• G (augmented with a sharp 9)
• C minor shape up higher
• Walking chromatically down the baseline creates a familiar sound.
• Always back to that D minor 7, flat 5.

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Ending the Tune

At the very end, it does some repeats on the coda.
I play around with that F13 in measure 20, doing it differently each time.

Here's how I'm playing:

• Picking the E, but then playing harmonics on the bottom string and the top three.
• The E flat on the fourth string is picked, but everything else is a harmonic.

And that's Guitar Noir!