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.
This week I have a nice little chord change for you that crops up in many, many songs. You’ll find it’s really effective but does assume you have some understanding of playing the guitar. If you find it a little too much there’s no need to panic as my full course (due to be released shortly) covers every aspect from an absolute beginner through to monster guitar players.
It’s a great idea to keep this tip for future reference. Once you reach a level to be able to play this phrase simply pull it out of your bag of tricks you’ll be building up over time.
Ok, give this a whirl:
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.
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….
Now move the whole chord shape down the neck two frets keeping the 1st string open and play one bar (G6)…
Now play a Dsus2 chord ..Fingering: 4th string open -3rd string 2nd fret first finger – 2nd string 3rd fret 3rd finger and again 1st string open, 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.
For a killer chord progression that sounds great on its own, play one or two bars of each chord over and over. It’s great to solo over and fantastic for writing your own songs.
Hope you enjoyed it this week, until next time, Keep practicing…
Warmest regards Mike
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 amazing 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 go to his webpage at: Guitar Lessons
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