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

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 Begining Guitar 7 [16:20m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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

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 Begining Guitar 6 [13:59m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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:

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