Guitar Lesson For Relative Beginners - A Cool Little Chord Change For You To Play
Posted by Kay Stanford Jr Kastum at 2:07 PMIt's Mike again from KillerGuitarTips.com
As promised here's another mini guitar lesson to give you a help in hand in your guitar playing.
This week's tip is a nice little chord change that crops up in many songs and is really effective but it does assume you have some understanding of playing the guitar. If not don't worry as my full course (due to be released shortly) covers every aspect from an absolute beginner through to monster guitar players.
A great piece of advice is to keep all these tips for future reference. As you will be building an archive up over time and can be referred back to and pull out from your bag of tricks.
Ok, let's have a go:
We'll start by playing an 'A Major' chord in the open position, using your 1st, 2nd and 3rd finger play one bar all downstrokes and on the beat.
Next lift off your 3rd finger to reveal the open B string (this chord is called Asus2) and play one bar.
Next using your 4th finger hold down the B string at the 3rd fret (1st and 2nd finger remain unchanged at the second fret throughout this piece), play one bar (Chord is called Asus4) and finish off by playing one bar of A Major to complete this four bar sequence.
Here's another cool little trick i would like to give you before i sign off for this week. It's a great trick creating cool sounding chords easily by using all the open strings within the chords.
Ok follow me... We are going to play an A major (A) chord with a difference... The fingerings are: 4th string 7th fret with your 3rd finger....3rd string 6th fret 2nd finger and 2nd string 5th fret 1st finger and 1st string is played open this chord is an A major (A). OK now strum one bar....
Now you need to move the whole chord shape down the neck two frets keeping the 1st string open. This is a G6 chord. Play one bar.
Now we need to play a Dsus2 chord. Here are the fingerings... 4th string open... 3rd string 2nd fret first finger... 2nd string 3rd fret 3rd finger and again 1st string open, now play one bar.
To finish off we now play an A Major chord in the open position... 5th string open... 4th,3rd and 2nd string are played at the second fret with fingers 1,2,3 and the 1st string is ...you guessed it open.
Play one or two bars of each chord over and over for a killer chord progression that sounds great on its own, it's great to solo over and fantastic for writing your own songs...
Until next time, keep practicing!
Warmest regards Mike
As promised here's another mini guitar lesson to give you a help in hand in your guitar playing.
This week's tip is a nice little chord change that crops up in many songs and is really effective but it does assume you have some understanding of playing the guitar. If not don't worry as my full course (due to be released shortly) covers every aspect from an absolute beginner through to monster guitar players.
A great piece of advice is to keep all these tips for future reference. As you will be building an archive up over time and can be referred back to and pull out from your bag of tricks.
Ok, let's have a go:
We'll start by playing an 'A Major' chord in the open position, using your 1st, 2nd and 3rd finger play one bar all downstrokes and on the beat.
Next lift off your 3rd finger to reveal the open B string (this chord is called Asus2) and play one bar.
Next using your 4th finger hold down the B string at the 3rd fret (1st and 2nd finger remain unchanged at the second fret throughout this piece), play one bar (Chord is called Asus4) and finish off by playing one bar of A Major to complete this four bar sequence.
Here's another cool little trick i would like to give you before i sign off for this week. It's a great trick creating cool sounding chords easily by using all the open strings within the chords.
Ok follow me... We are going to play an A major (A) chord with a difference... The fingerings are: 4th string 7th fret with your 3rd finger....3rd string 6th fret 2nd finger and 2nd string 5th fret 1st finger and 1st string is played open this chord is an A major (A). OK now strum one bar....
Now you need to move the whole chord shape down the neck two frets keeping the 1st string open. This is a G6 chord. Play one bar.
Now we need to play a Dsus2 chord. Here are the fingerings... 4th string open... 3rd string 2nd fret first finger... 2nd string 3rd fret 3rd finger and again 1st string open, now play one bar.
To finish off we now play an A Major chord in the open position... 5th string open... 4th,3rd and 2nd string are played at the second fret with fingers 1,2,3 and the 1st string is ...you guessed it open.
Play one or two bars of each chord over and over for a killer chord progression that sounds great on its own, it's great to solo over and fantastic for writing your own songs...
Until next time, keep practicing!
Warmest regards Mike
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About The Author: Mike Jones is a Professional Guitar Tutor. Offering Guitar Lessons created to getting the beginner through to a great player in the shortest possible time, using unique speed learning techniques developed over 20 years of teaching and playing guitar as a professional. To find out more about Mike's teaching methods and receive FREE tips and tricks each week visit his webpage at: Guitar Lessons