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 back to another guitar lesson. Today I am going to show you how to play a romantic chord progression on the acoustic guitar.
Romantic and passionate chords can be achieved by transforming the chords into major and minor seventh chords. Add a simple fingerpicking pattern, and a lovely guitar tone and the recipe is ready.
The chord progression we checking out today is in E major key. Just two chords and a simple rhythm. The second section features a quite exciting chord progression in C# minor played with a chromatic bass line that adds a lot of color to the music.
I love playing with major and minor seventh chords. It feels like you can always come up with something different every time you use these chords.
Hey guys, welcome to another guitar lesson. Today, I am going to show you how to play a Blues in C using two scales: The major and minor pentatonic scale.
One of the remarkable things about the Blues is that it allows you to use two scales over the chords. I always loved watching blues players blending the two scales effortlessly. However, when I tried, it didn’t sound quite the same!
You see, guitar players tend to let the fingers decide what to play. In my case, I would learn one blues lick using the C major pentatonic, and I would try to replicate the same riff with the Minor pentatonic using the same shape. We can call it a “Copy and paste” Blues lick approach.
Things changed when I started listening to singers and how they blend the two scales. The transition between the major and minor scale was soo smooth that it almost felt like one scale.
Once you get rid of the scale box, you can appreciate playing the Blues as a singer does.
In this lesson, I am going to show you what I learn by playing a Blues like a singer. I am also going to show you how to blend the two scales so that you always know what scale goes on which chord.
Hey guys, let me show you how to play this beautiful pop chord progression on the acoustic guitar using the fingerpicking technique.
We are going to learn a lovely chord progression in C# minor. The cool thing about this lesson is that it starts with just one melody on the B string. After you learn this, you can then add the bass note and full chords to the melody.
The chord shapes are very simple as we are mostly playing just two strings. However, some of these chords can be quite jumpy so make sure you learn one chord at a time if you need to.
The chord progression goes as follows: C#m | E | A | % | C#m | E | A ||. Simple yet beautiful.
In this lesson, I am going to show you how to play a soulful chord progression in E minor. So how do we make a chord progression soulful and profound? The answer is Minor 7th chords.
The minor 7th is an extended chord played with the Root note, minor 3rd, perfect 5th, and minor 7th. It’s just like playing a minor chord with the additional 7th. It sounds like a minor chord but less emotional and sad and more soulful and profound.
The chord progression is Em7 chord followed by the Am7 and Bm7 chord. The chords will be played with a simple fingerpicking pattern.
As always, there will be room for additional notes and more extended chords so seat down, grab your guitar, and enjoy this lesson.
Hey guys, let me show you how to play basic chords on the guitar that sound beautiful. This lesson is perfect for beginners/intermediate guitar players who want to learn how to play basic chords melodically and harmonically better.
When we think about basic chords, we usually go straight to the C major, D major, G major, D minor, etc. These chords are essential, and among the very first chords, we learn as beginners.
However, there is a way to play basic chords that can help you develop your musicality and creativity. In this lesson, we are going to have a look at some of my favorite.
For each chord progression, there will be a musical example that you can practice, learn, and transform.
Hey guys, let me show you how to play a simple melody combining a simple fingerpicking pattern, beautiful chords, and an interesting rhythmic pattern.
When you combine three musical examples such as fingerstyle, rhythm, and chords you can decide to keep the fingerstyle pattern simple and challenge the chords and rhythm.
In this example, the rhythm is the element that really gives groove and dynamics to the music while keeping the plucking simple. The melody repeats the same thing over different chords. Learn the melody one time and just change the bass note.
As always, take things step-by-step and learn one chord at a time. Start with the rhythm though and learn the most challenging element before moving on to the chords and plucking pattern.
Hey guys, welcome back to another lesson. Today, I am going to show you how to play a beautiful melody in A major key. I wrote this music a while back. I needed a soundtrack for my Patreon page so I wrote this music to inspire as many people as possible.
The concept is that we all start playing the guitar with just one note. It blows my mind away to think that we all start with that single, difficult, frustrating, and challenging note. Before we know it, we are totally hooked by the beautiful sound of this instrument.
Let me tell you more about the music.
The melody and fingerstyle pattern are very simple, however, there is a lot going on in the first section as some of the chords are played in different inversions and there is always a melody between the chords.
I love this melody. Gentile, sweet, melodic, and inspiring. I also like the second part played with the strumming technique.
I hope you enjoy playing this music as much as I do.
Hey guys, today I am going to show you a romantic chord progression on acoustic guitar. We are going to explore major and minor 7th chord in the A major key.
One of the things that I love about the major and minor 7th chord is the gentle sound which is perfect if you want to write romantic and soulful chord progressions.
The chords we are learning in this lesson can be played in many different shapes but we are going to break it down into two shapes only. The Dmaj7 and Amaj7 share the same shape. Also, the C#m7 and Bm7 chords are played using the same shape.
The chords in the B section can be quite stretchy so practice one chord at a time.
Notice how the fingerpicking technique allows you to play the same chord shape in many different ways by simply changing the plucking pattern.
Hey guys, let me show you how to use this simple fingerstyle technique called “Fingerpicking Roll”. With this technique, we pluck the strings with the thumb, index, middle, and ring finger using a quick rolling movement.
With this approach, we can outline the notes of a chord and make the fingerpicking technique sound like a slow and gentle strum.
We are also going to learn a simplified fingerpicking roll using the thumb and middle finger only.
The fingerpicking roll technique is a great tool that will help you develop dynamics and tone as well as plucking control and timing.
