Guitar Lessons For Relative Beginners - How To Play Some Cool Little Chord Changes
Mike here again from KillerGuitarTips.com
As promised here's another mini guitar lesson to give you a help in hand in your guitar playing.
Here, I'm going to show you a cool little chord change that shows up in many songs. It's really effective but it does assume you have some basic understanding of playing the guitar. You may find it a little too much at this point, if so, don't panic we have all been where you are right now. My full course covers every aspect of playing the guitar from absolute beginner through to great player all in the shortest possible time.
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.
We now lift off your 3rd finger to reveal the open B string (the chord is called Asus2) and play one bar.
Now using your 4th finger try to hold down the B string at the 3rd fret (1st and 2nd finger remain unchanged at the second fret throughout this piece) and play one bar. This chord is named the Asus4 chord. Now to finish off play one bar of A Major to complete this four bar sequence.
Following on from above before I sign off for this week let's have a look at a cool little trick you can use to create cool sounding chords easily by using open strings within 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....
Move this shape down two frets keeping the 1st string open and play a bar (G6)...
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.
Now finish off by playing 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.
Now if you want a great chord progression that sounds great on its own, play one or two bars of each chord numerous times. It's a great progression to solo over and superb for writing your own songs.
So, that's it for this week, keep practicing!
Warmest regards Mike - 18418
As promised here's another mini guitar lesson to give you a help in hand in your guitar playing.
Here, I'm going to show you a cool little chord change that shows up in many songs. It's really effective but it does assume you have some basic understanding of playing the guitar. You may find it a little too much at this point, if so, don't panic we have all been where you are right now. My full course covers every aspect of playing the guitar from absolute beginner through to great player all in the shortest possible time.
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.
We now lift off your 3rd finger to reveal the open B string (the chord is called Asus2) and play one bar.
Now using your 4th finger try to hold down the B string at the 3rd fret (1st and 2nd finger remain unchanged at the second fret throughout this piece) and play one bar. This chord is named the Asus4 chord. Now to finish off play one bar of A Major to complete this four bar sequence.
Following on from above before I sign off for this week let's have a look at a cool little trick you can use to create cool sounding chords easily by using open strings within 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....
Move this shape down two frets keeping the 1st string open and play a bar (G6)...
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.
Now finish off by playing 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.
Now if you want a great chord progression that sounds great on its own, play one or two bars of each chord numerous times. It's a great progression to solo over and superb for writing your own songs.
So, that's it for this week, keep practicing!
Warmest regards Mike - 18418
About the Author:
About The Author: Mike Jones is a Professional Guitar Tutor. Offering Guitar Lessons geared to getting the beginner through to an accomplished player in the shortest possible time, using amazing speed learning techniques developed over two decades 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 website at: Guitar Course
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