Hey guys, welcome back to another lesson! Today, I am going to show you how to play this Ethnic/World Music chord progression on the guitar. I wasn’t sure about the music style, and it took a while to figure out.
Three elements are vital to this chord progression:
Pedal tone technique: Keeping the same bass note over different chords.
Galloping rhythm: The fingerpicking pattern provides a quite Ethnic rhythm.
Over-ringing melody: Blend in the melody within the chords.
There are a few challenging things you should consider while practicing this music. 1) The fingerpicking pattern should be played as evenly as possible. 2) The melody should be louder than the accompaniment. 3) Some of the chords can be stretchy.
Start by learning the intro. In this section, you can focus on the rhythm and fingerstyle pattern. Then, move on to the verse when you feel ready.
In this lesson, I am going to show you ten game-changing chords you should know! If you feel like you are stuck always playing the same chords, watch and learn the stuff in this video to learn how to make chords more colorful.
There are hundreds of chords, so, why these ten chords? Well, some chords work better than others, especially on guitar. We will focus on the most colorful ones and narrow it down to only ten species.
The chords we will learn are:
Maj.
Min.
Min9.
sus4.
Sus2.
Maj7.
Maj(add9).
Min(add9).
Dim.
6/9.
We are going to squeeze all these chords into a little chord progression without making things too complicated. You can learn one chord at a time if you have to.
When you decide to make this exercise one of your challenge, start with one or two chords. Write down different chord progressions with the same chords. Don’t start with ten chords like in this example, please!
Hey guys, welcome to another excellent guitar lesson. Today, I am going to show you a mind-blowing chord progression in C major played on fingerstyle guitar.
This chord progression in mind-blowing for three different reasons.
Symmetrical chords: These type chords follow the same shape and can be moved up and down the neck. The chords we are learning in this lesson are among the most simple chord shapes you can play on the guitar.
Extended chords: Despite the simple chord shape, these chords are played with extended notes, which is, of course, a double win!
Fingerpicking pattern: All these amazing chords are played with the most simple and effective fingerpicking patter, the popular P i m a.
We will be working on a simple chord progression in C major: C | F | Am | G |. As we progress throughout the lesson, we will learn how to add additional notes to the chords.
You can learn how to play this chord progression and then apply the same three mind-blowing concepts to other chord progressions.
Welcome to SAI module 5. In this course, we learn scales and arpeggios that will help you improve your technique, rhythm, fretboard knowledge, and overall playing.
In module 5, we are going to take a look at the:
F major scale/arpeggio
D natural minor scale/arpeggio,
D harmonic minor scale.
D melodic minor scale.
A minor in 10th.
Musical ideas: The hammer-on and pull-off technique.
Practicing scale is still one of the best and most effective ways to improve your guitar technique. I recommend that you play scales between 10 and 20 minutes at the beginning of your practice session. Depending on how much time you have available, you should be able to study one or more scale each week.
The purpose of this course is not to give you all the scales and arpeggios available on the guitar. Instead, I want to provide you with a set of tools packed into each module that you can add to your current sessions.
Take things step-by-step, and don’t worry about learning the scales as fast as possible. Instead, focus on improving the right-hand plucking technique by implementing the different fingerpicking patterns discussed in each module.
Improve your finger stretch and left-hand control. Master the fretboard and enhance your music theory skills.
We explored the Blues a few times now and you guys loved it. Today, we are going to add another Blues to our repertoire. Precisely, a Minor Blues.
The Minor Blues follows the same structure of the regular Twelve-Bar Blues but it is played with minor chords. We will be playing a Minor Blues in E.
One of the things that I like a lot about the minor Blues is that it can start quite simple and then develop into a more complex structure with more chords and substitutions.
In this lesson, though, we are going to learn a very simple minor Blues, which follows the common minor Blues chord progression and structure.
Hey guys, let me show you how to play this awesome Indie-Folk chord progression! In this video, I am also going to share with you the number one formula for creating this type of chords.
The formula is straightforward: We are going to add open strings to the chords. Now, I know that we already do that all the time! When we play an E minor chord or a G major chord, we combine fretted notes and open strings. So, what’s the deal about this formula?
First off, we need research! When we play an E minor chord in open position, we are repeating the same notes of the chords multiple times. This is why the E minor chord doesn’t sound appealing.
But if we add open strings to chords in D minor chords instantly become more exciting and colorful.
Just think about it! In D minor the notes are D E F G A Bb C D. The are two notes, the G and E, that can be used as open strings.
If we add the G string open to a D minor chord, we are adding the 4th to the chord. If we add the E string open to the D minor chord, we are adding the major 9th to the chord.
In D minor, both the G and the E string add extensions to the chords, and this is why this formula only works for specific keys.
I am going to explain everything in details throughout the video.
Hey guys, I hope you are having a fantastic day. The weekend is just about to get started so I feel like I want to give you something to work on that is beautiful, simple, and fun to play.
Today, we are going to learn this simple romantic melody on the acoustic guitar. We already covered how to play a romantic chord progression but today we will be focusing more on the melodic side of the music.
Now, we can’t write a romantic melody if we don’t have romantic chords, so, you will learn that too.
There are three things that I recommend you follow when playing this style of music:
1. Use the over-ringing technique as much as you can and let the chords and melody ring out.
2. Don’t play this music too fast. Instead, try to play it slowly and calmly.
3. Use the vibrato technique whenever it is possible.
Hey guys, welcome to another guitar lesson! Today I am going to show you how to play this beautiful Latin Jazz chord progression on the fingerstyle guitar.
I don’t usually play this music style a lot, but I like the sound, vibe, harmonical, and melodic possibilities that this genre offers.
In this lesson, we will explore a minor chord progression played with an interesting rhythmic pattern and unique chords. The Latin music is played with min6, min7, min7b5, and dominant chords.
As always, we will try to fit in a melody within the busy chord progression, to add more color and challenge.
I decided to break-down the lesson into three key points: The rhythm, the chords, and the melody.
What’s the most famous chord progression ever played? In my opinion, the I – VI – IV – V! Why? Because I have been teaching guitar to an insane number of people throughout the past fifteen years, and I can undoubtedly say that the I – VI – IV – V is the number one chord progression 90% of self-tough guitar players learn as soon as they pick up a guitar.
In this guitar lesson, I am going to show you this popular chord progression using the fingerpicking technique. We will also add a simple melody to the chords.
The I – VI – IV – V can be played in any key (major or minor), but today, we will be focusing on the D major key.
The chord progression goes as follows: D | Bm | G | A |.
My goal is to show you how a simple chord progression, such as the I – VI – IV – V, can still sound beautiful and interesting.
Hey guys, today I am going to show you how to play a bunch of easy chords that sound awesome. For me, a simple chord is a chord that has a very simple chord shape. Some chords can be harmonically complex but very simple to play.
I see many beginners getting scared by chords that have weird names such as Gadd9, Em7, Csus4, A13, etc. In this lesson, you will learn the name of the chord doesn’t make the chord more simple or challenging to play.
We are in total control of everything we play, so we can simplify chords as much as we want.
In this tutorial, we are going to learn an excellent chord progression played with a quite interesting rhythmic pattern. If the chords are simple, we will have to work harder on the rhythm to make things exciting and refreshing to play.
As always, we will put these chords into practice and learn them just like if you would learn a song. Except, that this is my song hehe (and even not popular).
