Beginning Guitar Podcast - How to Play Guitar

More complex chords

Vital to keep fingers arched. Use only your fingertips to play these chords. No flat fingers!

six-string G, G7, Em, E, Am
Five string C

This page has chord diagrams for the chords in this episode

Don’t get confused on the difference between E and Em. Remember, major is more than minor so E major needs one more finger than E minor.

How to count eight notes. Just like we did with chords. 1 & down, up
Eight note exercise. Use alternate picking (down, up, down, up...)

|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|
|------------------|
|------------------|
|------------------|
|------------------|
|------------------|

Another eighth note exercise

|------------------|-----0-0----------|
|------------------|-0-0--------------|
|-------------0-0--|------------------|
|---------0-0------|------------------|
|-----0-0----------|------------------|
|-0-0--------------|------------------|

Boogie Beat

|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|
|---------0-0-2-2-|-3-3-2-2-0-0-----|
|-----2-2---------|-------------2-2-|
|-3-3-------------|-----------------|

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Repeat After Me Answers

 

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Apparently episode 5 became corrupted during the upload. The result was that half the episode was cut off. I fixed the problem and that episode is good to go now.

Sorry for the inconvenience,

Brian

 

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In this episode:

Chord Patterns

A more complex strum pattern for chords. I do this with the four-string G chord you learned earlier:

D DU UD
1&2&3&4&

After mastering the pattern try using it to play this progression:

G G7 C C

How to play Star Wars on Guitar (part 2):

|---------3----------------------------------|
|--1-0------3-----1-0-1----------------------|
|-------2-------------------2----------------|
|-------------------------------0-0-0-0------|
|--------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------|

Repeat After Me Answers

Links to some of the picks that I use:

Dunlop Gator Grip Standard Guitar Picks 2.0MM 1 Dozen

Fender 351 Standard Guitar Pick White Thin 1 Dozen

 

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In this episode:

A new strum pattern:

1 2 & 3 4 Count
D D U D D Pick strokes (D=down, U=up)

How to play Star Wars on Guitar:

|-------------3----------------------------------------------------|
|---3---1-0-----3------------------------------------------------|
|-0---------2-----------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------|

Repeat After Me Answer Page

Harmonics

My video lesson on playing harmonics

Links to Tommy Emmanuel CDs and videos

I found this video of Tommy Emmanuel doing some fantastic harmonics. Don’t try this at home!

 

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