Four Chords on Guitar …

THAT SOUND AWESOME

Hey guys, I hope you are having a fantastic day. Welcome to another fingerpicking guitar lesson where I am going to show you four chords on guitar that sound awesome. This is a lesson for intermediate guitar players who want to learn new chords as well as three awesome fingerpicking patterns!

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Chords on Guitar

Chords are one of the most important aspect in music. Simply put, a chord is a bunch on notes played together. We can decide to strum or apreggiate the chord depending on the genre or song we are going to play.

The most basic chord in music is called triad, a chord based on the root note, third and fifth degree of the scale.

Unlike the piano, the guitar has the same notes on different strings. For this reason, we can double notes in chords and play for example two root notes or two thirds or two fifths which will result in an increase of sound. Playing double notes will also change the chord tone (or timbre).

The basic chords are the most simple chords on guitar. They are played within the first three frets of the fretboard and and contain at least one open string. If you are a beginner, these are the chords you should start with.

Chords in this Lessons

In this fingerstyle lesson we are going to learn four different chords.

Em9, Cmaj79, Gadd9 and Dadd9.

The add9 chords are among the most beautiful sounding chords on guitar however they are definitely more difficult than the basic chords on guitar for many different reasons.

They are more stretchy.
Not easy to memorize.
It will take a while to get used to the sound.
They are played on different set of strings.

If this is the first time you play these type of chords on guitar you should start step by step and learn one chord at a time.

The fingerpicking pattern is another challenging element you’ll find in this lesson. Today I am going to show you three different fingerpicking patterns that you can apply on the chord progression.

The Fingerpicking Pattern

Although fingerstyle guitar can be quite complex, a lot of music can be played with repetitive fingerpicking patterns.

In this lesson I am going to show you three different fingerpicking patterns that you can apply on this chord progression.

Pattern 1: P i m i a m i P i m i a m
Pattern 2: P i m i a m i P i m i a m i P i
Pattern 3: P i m i a

The patterns can be applied on the same chord progression and it shows how you can make the chords sound more rhythmic depending on which pattern you are playing.