Beautiful Chords with Little Effort

Using Pedal Tone

Hey guys, welcome to another super fingerstyle lesson. I am currently in Italy so I am recording in my basement.

In this guitar lesson I am going to show you how to create beautiful chords with little effort using the pedal tone technique.

The pedal tone is a technique in which a chord is sustained while the bass note changes. There are a lot of different type of examples using the pedal tone but in this lesson we will be focusing on the one explained above.

In this lesson we will be playing the same chord shape throughout while changing the bass note only. This is an awesome technique because allows you to simplify chords and at the same time come up with new possibilities and ideas.

Also, because we love playing melodies, at the end of each line we will be playing a very simple melody between chords.

This is a fingerstyle guitar lesson that beginners, as well as intermediate, can use to learn more about the pedal tone technique, experiment with new chords, improve fingers stretch and plucking.

The exercise is in a key of D major but you can literally apply the pedal tone concept on any chord progression.

Tabs available on Patreon!

Good luck with this lessons guys.

The Video

The Chord Progression

The first thing we will be learning in this lesson is the chord progression in D major. We will not play any of the basic chords that you probably already know even though you’ll still have to memorize the chord progression of chords.

It goes as follows: D – D/F# – G. D – D/F# – G – A. Bm – A – G

Once you are done with that, you can move on to the next part of the video where I show you the Pedal tone approach.

The Pedal Tone

In the exercise I am about to show you we are going to apply the pedal tone on the top two strings (E and B string).

We will basically play the same two notes throughout and change the bass note only.

Tab available on Patreon.

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