Amazing Fingerstyle Chords

Only Possible in A major Key

Hey, guys, today I will show you this amazing fingerstyle chord progression in A major that will blow your mind.

I love experimenting with chords, and fingerstyle guitar allows you to develop unique, amazing sounding chords that are really only possible when you play in fingerstyle.

So how do we memorize new chords?

The biggest mistake you can make when learning new chords is to open a Ted Greene book, trying to memorize the chords without really put them into practice. You can read twenty chord diagrams, but as soon as you close the book, they are gone!

I use a straightforward approach to learn one/two new fingerstyle chords and combine them with one/two chords I already know.

In the beginning, it’s a nightmare, and I remember struggling a lot, even with just one new chord. Then as I learned more and more chords, the whole process became natural.

Just so you know, I don’t remember all the chords I learned, and I easily forget them.

It’s not a big deal.

They’ll come back to you when you need them, just like when you didn’t play Classical Gas for two years, but it easily came back after a few hours of practice.

I highly recommend you learn this exercise, then take one or two chords and use them in a different chord progression in A major.

Time to play! Let’s learn some beautiful fingerstyle chords in A major!

Good luck!

The Video

Fingerstyle Chords

Let’s get into details.

In this exercise, the chord progression is insanely easy.

We are in A major key, and the chorus goes as follows: A | E | D.

The A major chord will have four different voicings while the E and D only two.

The A major Chord

Let me show you why fingerstyle is so amazing when it comes to amazing chords.

The first voicing is an A major chord with the 9th and 11th. You can call it A add9/11. This chord doesn’t have the major third, so we don’t really know if it’s major or minor, but I think we can agree that it sounds pretty major. The B open string really makes this chord unique!

The second voicing is another Add9 chord with two major 3rd. The B open string gives the dreamy vibe.

The third voicing is a beautiful Amaj7(add9), and this is one of my favorite chords on the guitar.

The fort voicing is Aadd9 with a different voicing. This chord is pretty stretchy, so practice it slowly.

The E and D major Chord

We will also work on two other chords, The E major and D major chord.

Both chords sound beautiful in the A major key and are part of the amazing fingerstyle chords you’ll learn in this lesson.

Make sure you check the tab below to learn the chord progression and all the chords I am teaching in the video.

As always, make sure you take things to step by step and learn one chord at a time before you move on to the next one.

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