Sound Modern & Sophisticated With This One Chord | Fusion Guitar Hack @QJamTracks

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INSTANT FUSION with this JACK OF ALL TRADES Maj7b5 chord

As we start exploring chord progressions in different genres of music like Fusion and Progressive Rock we come to a point where we want to create these special sophisticated sounds ourselves. Exploring Jazz guitar and Jazz chords for guitar is a very good start, but Fusion drifts away from Jazz in the sense that it doesn’t always comply to conventional music theory and rules. In Fusion everything goes really. In this guitar tutorial I will show one of the “tricks” to sound modern and Fusion like. For that we’ll use jest one chord: the maj7b5 chord. By superimposing this chord over different bass notes in a educated way we’ll get very beautiful and very typical Fusion and Progressive Rock style sounds that guitarists as Plini use for instance.

I wish you tons of fun with this Fusion/Prog Rock guitar lesson!

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**CHAPTERS:**
0:00 Introduction
1:00 What are upper structures
2:02 The Maj7b5 chord
3:15 Lesson layout (superimpose Cmaj7b5)
4:37 Cmaj7b5 to F#min7b5
5:37 Cmaj7b5 to G#7alt
6:59 Cmaj7b5 to Amin6(9)
8:24 Cmaj7b5 tot Bsus4b9
9:18 Cmaj7b5 tot Ddom13
11:34 Example in Fusion/Prog Rock style
14:48 Final thoughts

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$Sound Modern & Sophisticated With This One Chord | Fusion Guitar Hack INSTANT FUSION with this JACK OF ALL TRADES Maj7b5 chord As we start exploring chord progressions in different genres of music like Fusion and Progressive Rock we come to a point where we want to create these special sophisticated sounds ourselves. Exploring Jazz guitar and Jazz chords for guitar is a very good start, but Fusion drifts away from Jazz in the sense that it doesn’t always comply to conventional music theory and rules. In Fusion everything goes really. In this guitar tutorial I will show one of the “tricks” to sound modern and Fusion like. For that we’ll use jest one chord: the maj7b5 chord. By superimposing this chord over different bass notes in a educated way we’ll get very beautiful and very typical Fusion and Progressive Rock style sounds that guitarists as Plini use for instance. I wish you tons of fun with this Fusion/Prog Rock guitar lesson! Level 4 (of 6) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Please support this channel by engaging: like, comment, subscribe (with notifications on ;), become a Patreon or visit my e-book store to just take a look! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - **E-BOOK: ** https://qjamtracks.myshopify.com/products/instant-fusion-with-maj7b5-substitutions I bought the Abasi guitar at a quality boutique guitar shop in Cyprus: HTTPS://AHEADMUSIC.COM.CY My **E-BOOK STORE** with affordable crystal-clear guitar lessons packed with audio examples: HTTPS://QJAMTRACKS.MYSHOPIFY.COM My **PATREON PSGE** for support and extra’s: HTTPS://PATREON.COM/QJAMTRACKS **TAGS:** #guitarlesson #guitartutorial #fusionguitar #jazzguitarlesson #progrocklesson #progressiverocklesson #fusionchords #jazzchords #superimpose #improvisationlesson #jazzimprovisation #fusionsolo #chordtheory #musictheory #modernguitarmusic #robvanhal #qjamtracks **CHAPTERS:** 0:00 Introduction 1:00 What are upper structures 2:02 The Maj7b5 chord 3:15 Lesson layout (superimpose Cmaj7b5) 4:37 Cmaj7b5 to F#min7b5 5:37 Cmaj7b5 to G#7alt 6:59 Cmaj7b5 to Amin6(9) 8:24 Cmaj7b5 tot Bsus4b9 9:18 Cmaj7b5 tot Ddom13 11:34 Example in Fusion/Prog Rock style 14:48 Final thoughts **SOCIAL MEDIA / CONTACT: ** https://facebook.com/QJamTracks https://instagram.com/QJamTracks https:// youtube.com/QJamTracks *Strandberg Guitars* https://strandbergguitars.com *Abasi Concepts Guitars* https://abasiconcepts.com/ *Fractal AxeFx II* https://www.fractalaudio.com *Neural DSP PluginS * https://neuraldsp.com/ (c)2026 Rob van Hal, Netherlands$ $TURN Simple Chord Progressions into FUSION & PROGRESSIVE ROCK – Guitar lesson A Fusion and Progressive Rock guitar tutorial about adapting a chord progression and use quartal chords to sound like Fusion and Prog Rock by adding chord extensions to the power chords, create more complex chord extensions like 7 chords, 9 chords, 11 chords,13 chords and altered or augmented chords to the triads for an awesome and ambiguous sounding riffs. 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