Introduction To Double Stops – 6ths On The V Chord
Playing Doublestops on guitar means playing two notes together to create thicker, more interesting sound for solos or rhythm guitar. In order to fully understand how Doublestops work, it is necessary to know what intervals are. For this Free Guitar Lesson we will take a look at one interval called 6ths.
If you play any note in a Major Scale and then play a note 6 notes up the scale you would have created an interval of a 6th. It turns out there are two types of 6ths in any Major Scale.
Major 6ths are two notes separated by 4 and ˝ steps.
Minor 6ths are two notes separated by 4 steps.
The 6ths shown in the diagram below are derived from the C Major Scale with G considered the root. G is considered the root because we are going for a bluesy sound based on the V chord of C Major. That’s G Dominant 7th! Because it’s the V these 6ths contain the b7.
Play the 6ths in the example below, up and down the neck. Mix these in with your other licks and ideas by learning the location of the roots, try starting and resolving on the roots. These occur on the G and E strings. There are only two fingerings 2 and 1 for Minor 6ths and 2 and 3 for Major 6ths. The red dots indicate the roots (Gs).
It won’t take you long to get the hang of these and I bet you will recognize the sound from many tunes you have heard before. Try to figure out how to play the same thing on the D and B strings. The pattern is the same, just the starting point is different.
In Yellow Guitar Books Volume II there will be a chapter on intervals as well as many examples of Doublestops created with various combinations of intervals.
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