Introduction
How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson and today I want to show you how to play one of the chord progressions from the Joe Satriani song Always With Me, Always With You. So this particular song I’ve done previous lessons in the past on some of the melody lines and leads from it, but this is a really cool chord progression and it’s and it’s relatively short so you could like make a recording of it or use your looper and then it’s really fun to solo over the top of. I also think this is a really good progression to work with because you have to palm mute every note and then you’re arpeggiating the chord; so it’s a really good exercise for that.
Right now we’re offering this really cool free chord chart and there’s a link in the description that you can download it and print it off in PDF format so you have every chord that you could ever need for whatever you’re doing all in one place; it’s really a useful handy tool.
So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look.
Joe Satriani Chord Progression
All right so our first chord is B add 11 (Badd11) and a lot of these chords have big crazy names, but they’re not too terribly difficult to play. So for this first chord here, Badd11, my first finger is on the second fret of the A string, my third finger is on the fourth fret of the G string and my fourth finger is on the fourth fret of the B string and the high E string is open. So we’re going to pick this starting on the A string so it’ll be; A, G, B, E, B and G and this is in three four time (3/4) and this is all completely made up of eighth notes, so it’s just one and two and three and one and two and three and… So let’s just run through the chords and then we’ll work with the actual technique. So you have two measures of it so you play it twice… Then we have E minor seven add nine (Em7add9) and for this we’re going to put our first finger onto the first fret of the G string, our second finger onto the second fret of the B string and we’re going to pick this starting on the low E; so we go E, G, G and then we’re going to take our fourth finger and pick up the fourth fret of the B string and then take that back off so now we’re back down to the second again and then follow that with the G string, so one and two and three and. Then we have F sharp suspended four (F#sus4); so first finger here is just going to barre the second fret across all the strings and then we’re gonna put our third finger onto the fourth fret of the D string and our fourth finger onto the fourth fret of the G string and now we’re going to pick E, D, G, B, G and D, one and two and three and, and that’s the first four measures and then those repeat three times. So there’s actually one more chord that comes in the second part of this and that other chord we have is G sharp minor 11 (G#m11). So what we’re going to do is we’re just going to take this F#sus4 chord and we’re going to keep that shape, but we’re going to take our second finger and bring it over and pick up the fourth fret of the low E string and then take our first finger and put it on the second fret of the B string and do the same picking, excuse me, so the third finger should be on the third fret of the D string and I was on the G string. So we’re on the fourth fret of the low E string, the fourth fret of the D string, fourth fret of the G string and the second fret of the B string… and then the rest of the chords are just the same ones we’ve done except the very last one and we’ll just get to that when we when we get to that point, it’s pretty easy. So the first thing I would do is work on getting the chords down in the transitions and then you can work with this part of it. So he’s palm muting every single note, so it’s really challenging to be able to consistently get every note palm muted… So all I’m doing is just taking this part of my hand right here, just this edge here and I’m resting it right across the bridge; so if you’re too far forward it’s just dead sounding and if you’re too far back it just sounds like the open string, so if you find that sweet spot it’s just dampening the note and it still rings out for just a second. So it’s really hard and kind of hard to find that sweet spot especially if you’re new to this technique. So one and two and three and one and two and three and, and now we switch to that Em7add6… and then the F#sus4 and then it would just start over again… So it’s difficult to consistently get every note palm muted, so just keep at it, and if you notice consistently that it’s a particular string that you’re not getting the palm muting on, like say maybe it’s your B string or your G string, so just move your hand until you find that spot and then just scoot your hand up to those strings… so that way you’re getting them all muted. Alright so that section repeats three times… and after it repeats three times we go to that G#m11; so I’m just going to keep my third and fourth fingers where they are and bring my middle finger to the fourth fret of the low E string and my first finger down to the second fret of the B string. Then go to the Em7add6 and then to the F#sus4. So this is where we’re going to have this change so now all I’m going to do is remove my pinky from the fourth fret of the G string and put my middle finger down onto the third fret of the G string… and that’s where it wants to send you back to the top, back to the to the B voicing. So I’ll just play the first four measures from the third time through and then play these last four measures… and then it would just simply start over again.
Conclusion
All right so there you have it, the chord progression or one of the chord progressions from Always With Me, Always With You by Joe Satriani. Like I said aside from this just being a cool chord progression and some kind of different chord voicing’s and different chord ideas than maybe you’ve used in the past, but it’s just the whole technique of keeping the whole thing palm muted the whole time that you played as you know part of the challenge, but it’s just it’s a really great exercise and this progression is really fun to solo over. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you have not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.
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Introduction – Harmonize Your Own Riffs W/ Dyads
Hey everybody how’s it going? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this Learn How To Harmonize Your Own Riffs with dyads video lesson. Today I’m actually going to be teaching you one of my own riffs from a song I wrote. What I want to show you with this is a way that you can harmonize your own riff. This riff originally was played on two guitars and honestly I prefer the way that sounds, but we ended up being down a guitar player and had to play live and had to play this song and without the harmony it just doesn’t quite sound right; so I figured out a way to do both parts at the same time. I thought that would be a good lesson for you guys to show you how by using dyads and double stops how you can create your own little harmony. So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at Learn How To Harmonize Your Own Riffs with dyads.
Riff Melody
All right so this riff is entirely just on the D string and it’s got this sixteenth note kind of a thing going here. So you’ve got four sixteenth notes and then we’re going to go to the 15th fret. So in between there’s four 16th notes of the open D string in between all of these notes except in a couple of places and I’ll explain when we get there. So we’ve got frets 15 14 17 15… so we go 15 14 17 15 and then 14 15 again, so between the 14 and 15 there’s only two in between… so that’s the first part. Now we’re going to come down to the 12th fret… 14 10 12 and then two… Then we’re going to come down to 10 to 9; so that’s like half of the riff right there. So the second time through it’s got a couple of differences so we start off again with frets; 15 and 14 17 15 19 17 20 19 17 15 14 and then 15 so it’s the same, but here we have two sixteenth notes… all right so that was guitar one of Learn How To Harmonize Your Own Riffs with dyads.
Temple Of The Sun
So the song is called Temple Of The Sun by the way, so if you want to hear the original song it’s on YouTube and Spotify, it’s called temple of the sun and the band is called Sonic Prophecy.
Riff Harmony
So anyhow the song starts out with just the one guitar and then the whole thing just starts over again, but a second guitar comes in doing a harmony… So it’s just harmonized in thirds and so one problem with that was the one of the notes is actually on the 24th fret so you don’t have 24 frets it’s hard to play and you can’t play both of those parts at the same time. So what we’re going to do is the harmony line that’s up here… we’re going to do it all on the G string. So our first one we’re gonna do the same and add that harmony. So we’ve got a major third there, so if you remember from the dyads video that I did before that you know you have all these two note chords, like power chords… but there’s a whole bunch of other ones; so if you haven’t seen that video I’ll leave a link for it here so you can check that out. So we’ve got this shape is a major third, so here’s our root and our melody line and then it’s just one fret down on the on the G string, that’s a major and then to make it minor there’s a fret in between. So we’ve got; major, minor, minor, major, minor, major, major, minor, minor, major, minor, minor, major, and minor again. So here I’m on frets; 15 and 14 and then 14 and 12 and then 17 and 15 and back to 15 and 14… then 20 and 17 and 15 and 20 and 19 and 17…
That’s it… now you know How To Harmonize Your Own Riffs with dyads.
Conclusion
All right so I hope you enjoyed Learn How To Harmonize Your Own Riffs with dyads and you got something out of it. If you liked the video be sure to give it a thumbs up and leave me a comment down below and let me know if there’s something you’d like to see covered in a future lesson or if you just have a question about Learn How To Harmonize Your Own Riffs. I try to check all that stuff out and answer as many of them as I can. If you have not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so that you don’t miss out any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I’ve got for you today. Thanks for watching Learn How To Harmonize Your Own Riffs with dyads and have a great day.
]]>Check out this free lesson from Guitar Control instructor Darrin Goodman on three Classic Riffs For Remarkable Fretting Hand Improvement. Be sure to get the free tabs for this killer guitar lesson.
Introduction
Hey everybody how’s it going? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson. Today I want to show you three riffs Riffs For Remarkable Fretting Hand Improvement. I’m kind of doing a series on this and a lot of it’s been on stuff for alternate picking, but this one is not so much alternate picking as it is for your fretting hand to really kind of help it to get better reach. One of the things that I hear a lot from beginner students and stuff is they all say “oh my hands are too small”, “my fingers are too short”, I can’t reach these things. Well I’ve got very small hands, I don’t have fingers like Paul Gilbert or Steve Vai, you know big crazy hands. So anyhow these exercises are really good for just kind of helping getting your fingers to want to stretch and stuff and it’s a little bit more entertaining to do this than it is to just sit and stretch your hand out and you should you know kind of do that anyway just to kind of work yourself into it; but they’re fun little riffs. Anyway be sure to click on the link in description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at Riffs For Remarkable Fretting Hand Improvement.
Riffs For Remarkable Fretting Hand Improvement
Everlong
All right so the first Riffs For Remarkable Fretting Hand Improvement we’re going to look at is Everlong by Foo Fighters. Now I did this one just like a couple of weeks ago the original way that it’s done in drop D, but I’m going to show you how to do it in standard tuning which makes it more difficult to play, it’s got some bigger stretches and stuff, so like I said it’s just a really good exercise. So we’re going to start off, you’re going to put your second finger on the ninth fret of the A string and your fourth finger onto the 11th fret of the D string and then take your third finger put it on the 10th fret of the low E and your first finger on the seventh fret of the low E… So the strumming for this isn’t like really super important, it’s just like how the song is, when you look on the tabs it’ll make more sense… Then just remove your third finger so now we’re going to take that shape that we’re doing right there with one, five and then nine which this shape right here… it’s kind of the center of all of these riffs. We’re going to move that down so now your first finger is on the third fret, your second’s on the fifth and your fourth is on the seventh and then move it all the way back up to the seven again. So then you just put your third finger back on and start over.
Message In A Bottle
All right, so the next Riffs For Remarkable Fretting Hand Improvement we’re going to look at is Message In A Bottle by The Police. So this one uses that same shape that we were doing here on the last one, it uses that all over, so we’re going to start off here on the fourth fret of the A string and then it’s going to go to the sixth fret of the D and eighth of the G strings. So you don’t want the notes to be separate. Then from there we go to the low E five and then seven on the A and then nine on the D strings… Then from there we go down to the second fret of the A string and then the fourth fret of the D and sixth of G, so, so far… Now from there we’re going to move that straight down so now we’re on the second fret of the low E, fourth fret of the A and sixth fret of the D strings and when we do that we slide up a half step. So the whole thing slowly… So that’s a really good exercise for stretching out those fingers and stuff, you’ll feel it right away especially if this is new to you and you haven’t done this kind of stuff before you’re going to really feel it right away. So with these you don’t want to overdo it especially if you’re really new to this, I’ve only been playing for a short amount of time and I can feel it, don’t overdo it, don’t play them to the point that you give yourself tendonitis or something, listen to your body, if you start playing it and after 30 seconds it’s really kind of hurting then give it a rest, work yourself up to being able to play these with some endurance.
Every Breath You Take
Okay so then the last Riffs For Remarkable Fretting Hand Improvement we want to look at is another Police song and this is the riff for Every Breath You Take. Now these chords are difficult to do, they’re just such big stretches and it’s like I really have a hard time playing it myself, so you’ll probably hear little mistakes here and there but you know work at it, it’s a really good exercise. All right so for the first chord we’re on the third fret of the low E with your first finger and then I’m on the fourth fret of the G string with my second finger, I’m on the fifth fret of the A string with my third finger and the seventh fret of the D string with my fourth finger. So the picking pattern for it… I’m going six, five, four, five, three, four, five, six, five… the last one actually is five four, not six five. You do that twice and then the next chord is a little bit easier; open low E, second fret of the A string with my first finger, fourth fret of the fourth string with my third finger and fourth string open, same picking pattern… Then from there we’re just going to move our first finger up a half step so we’re on the third fret of the A string with your first finger, fifth fret of the D string with your second finger, fifth fret of the B string with your third finger and seventh fret of the G string with your fourth finger, same picking pattern. Then we just move that shape up a whole step so now our first finger is at the five, second fingers at seven, third fingers at seven and fourth finger is at nine… and then it just starts over again. Just from playing all of these things just demonstrating I can already feel that here in my wrist in my hand, It’s a lot of stretching. So like I said these are cool riffs, I would just take them one at a time, I’m doing them in the order of easiest to most difficult, so that Foo fighters one is the easiest and this Every Breath You Take is by far the hardest one.
Conclusion
All right so I hope you enjoyed Riffs For Remarkable Fretting Hand Improvement and got something out of it. If you like this lesson give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below. Let me know if there’s something you’d like to see covered in a future lesson. If you have not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss out any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I’ve got for you today. Thanks for watching Riffs For Remarkable Fretting Hand Improvement and have a great day.
Best of Pentatonic Scale Lessons to Play
Introduction
How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson. Today I want to show you an easy finger picking riff. This is the intro for the song Holiday by the Scorpions. So it’s a fairly simple riff and a great one for beginners for finger picking. So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at this.
Holiday Chords
All right so the first thing let’s just go over the chords that we’re going to be using in this. So we’ve got D minor; D string is open, I’m on the second fret of the G string with my second finger, third fret of the B string with my third finger and first of the high E with my first finger. Then we have D minor over C, so that’d be written Dm/C minor so we’re going to continue to have that same D minor chord, but now we’re going to move our bass note from being the open D string to the third fret of the A string and I’m going to use my pinky for that. Then we have B flat major seven (BbM7); so what we’re going to do is we’re going to leave our second and third fingers where they are and our first finger is just going to bar across the first five strings, so now our bass note will be there on the first fret of the A string B flat, my second finger is still on the second fret of the G string and my third finger is still on the third fret of the B string, my first finger is picking up that first fret of the A string and it’s also picking up the first fret of the high E… Then the next chord we’ve got from there we have A suspended four (Asus4); so again we’re going to leave our third and our second and third fingers where they are and we’re going to take our first finger and we’re going to put it on to the second fret of the D string. And then the last chord is just A5; so this is kind of a different it’s not like your regular power chord A5 we’re going to take our first finger and what I do is I just bar it so it’s going across the second fret of the first three strings and then my fourth finger is going to come up here and go across the fifth fret of the first and second string…
Finger Picking Pattern
Alright so the picking pattern for this is P-A-M-I-A-M-I-A. So if you’re new to finger picking, um I did a lesson quite a while ago where I go over the basics of finger picking and stuff and so you’ll understand what the PIMA stuff is and all that is, anyway I’ll just leave a link for that here you can check that out. But in a sense what it is we’re doing here is on this first chord, on the D minor, our thumb is playing the D string, our first finger is playing the G string, second finger is playing the B string and third finger is playing the high E. So your thumb that’s P, so your thumb is P your first finger is I, your middle finger is M and your third finger is A. So the bass note is the D string and then the high E with your third finger, B string with your middle finger and G string with your first finger. So I’m just gonna call this out basically off the strings; one, two, three, four, one two, three, four, five, six. So we’re gonna go four, one, two, three, one, two, three, one. All right so that is basically the picking pattern throughout the whole song, there’s just some slight variations of what strings are on and we’ll cover those as they come.
Holiday Riff
So starting off with that D minor, so again so we’re; four, four, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, and then we’re gonna move to our second chord the Dm/C. So we’re going to take our pinky and we’re just going to bring it up here and put it on the third fret of the A string and now we’re going to do that same picking pattern but now instead of our thumb playing the D string it’s going to play the A string but we’re going to everything else stays the same. So now we’re 5 1 2 3 1 2 3 1, but the difference is on that last time we go to the high E we’re going to remove our first finger so that it’s open. So we’ve got… Then we’re going to move to our BbM7, so I just remove my pinky and leave my second and third finger where they are and just lay my first finger across the first fret, same picking pattern that we just did and again we’re going to end it with the high E string open. So here we’re; five, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, open and then from there we go to our Asus4, so again we’re leaving our second and third fingers where they are and my first finger is going to move from the first fret here of the A string to the second fret of the D string. So now our thumb is gonna go back to the D string, so now we’re back to four, one, two, three, one, two, three, one and then we’re gonna go to that A5. So I just take my first finger and just drop it where it’s at so it’s going across the first four strings at the second fret and then I’m going to bring my fourth finger all the way up here to the fifth fret on the B and E strings and the same picking pattern. So the whole sequence slowly; four one two three one two three one and then move our pinky to do the Dm/C… with the open high E and to the BbM7 to the Asus4… So that’s P A M I…
Conclusion
All right so I hope you enjoyed that and you got something out of it. If you like the lesson be sure to give it a thumbs up. Leave me a comment down below if there’s something you’d like to see covered in a future lesson by myself or one of the other instructors at GuitarControl.com. If you have not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss out any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I’ve got for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.
]]>Check out this free lesson from Guitar Control instructor Darrin Goodman on this classic Americana Walking Bass Line. Be sure to click the link for the free tabs to go along with this lesson.
Introduction
Hey everybody how’s it going? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson. Today I want to show you a Classic Americana Walking Bass Line, but the whole idea here of what we’re looking at is for adding this walking bass line into it, so how you can take notes from the scale and you can use it to make notes that lead into your chord change or to come out of your chord change, it’s a really common kind of technique in that style of playing. So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at this Classic Americana Walking Bass Line.
Classic Americana Chord Progression
All right so the first thing let’s just go over the chords that we’re going to be using in this Classic Americana Walking Bass Line. We’re going to be using a C major… so third fret of the A string with my third finger, second fret of the D string with my second finger, G string is open, first fret of the B string with my first finger and your high E is open… Okay next we have F… so for F I’m on the third string fret of the D string with my third finger, second fret of the G string with my second finger and I’m barring my first finger across the first fret of the B and high E strings. And then we have G7… so for G7 I’m on the third fret of the low E with my third finger, second fret of the A string with my second finger and the D, G and B strings are open and on the first fret of the high E with my first finger…
Walking Bass Line Ascending
Alright so now what we’re going to do is we’re going to be taking notes from the C Major scale to make our pickup notes, our little notes to tie things together from going into the chord and from coming out of the chord. So first we’re going to start off here with this G; so my third finger here on the third fret of the low E to the fifth string open to the second fret and then to the third fret and that’s where you’re going to drop to a C… Ok, for the strum that I’m doing for this it’s like… so when we get to that root note of the chord, that C… All right so now on to the next part we’re going to start off with that C note here, third fret of the fifth string, to the open D string, to the second fret and then to the third fret, so now we’re going C, D, E, F, I’m doing the same picking and strumming, so far…
Walking Bass Line Descending
All right, so now we’re going to start descending Classic Americana Walking Bass Line, to go back down. So now we start off with that F; so third fret of the D string with my third finger, to the second fret, to open… So when we come back down we basically do the same thing… so now C, B, A, G7… and it just starts over. Okay so one of the things that I’m doing here to kind of help make the transition changes nice and smooth and this will also help you to make less mistakes in general when playing this. I’m planting that first finger here on the second fret of the B string and I’m just keeping it there, so when I do my little my little walk up and I’m all ready for the C… ready for the F… back to C… and then when I go to the G7 I just move my first finger from the B string first fret to the high E first fret…
Variations
All right so there are lots of other things you can do with this Classic Americana Walking Bass Line aside from that, that’s just one example. You can use these connecting notes like that for other chord changes and stuff. So if you’re doing C… walk down to the B to A minor… G to an E minor if you wanted to or to an F, it depends on what key you’re playing in. A thing that I’ll throw in that’s kind of really unrelated, but something that really helped me out a lot was once I realized that the difference between playing in the key of G major and C major is just one note is different, if you’re in the key of C you have an F, but if you’re in a key of G you have an F sharp so that means that A minor, the relative to C Major and E minor, the relative of G Major, you can play lots of stuff just overlapping out of those two things just by changing that one note you change the key. All right, so that whole sequence again slowly…
Conclusion
All right, so I hope you enjoyed Classic Americana Walking Bass Line and you got something out of it. If you like the lesson hit that thumbs up button. Leave me a comment down below if there’s something you’d like to see covered in a future lesson by either myself or one of the other instructors at GuitarControl.com. If you have not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so that you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Anyway that is all I’ve got for you today. Thanks for watching Classic Americana Walking Bass Line and have a great day.
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Expand your power chord arsenal by Learning How To Play The Zoo Riff By The Scorpions in this free lesson from Guitar Control instructor Darrin Goodman. Be sure to click the link for the free tabs for the Zoo riff.
Introduction
Hey everybody how’s it going? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson and today I want to show you a couple of things. We’ll be going over one thing, the main riff from the song The Zoo by the Scorpions, I want to use this riff to demonstrate an idea. So basically we want to go over this riff and show some different ways that it could have been played to show kind of like the differences and stuff and hopefully this will give you some ideas of things that you can do to add in like a little harmony into melody lines that you already maybe came up with. So anyhow be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at this Zoo riff.
The Zoo Riff
All right so the first thing I want to do is just go over this riff for The Zoo. So you’re pedaling the open sixth string; so it’s kind of like a one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and, like that. So then we’ve got these two note chords and they’re power chords, but they’re not the typical power chords that you usually do.
You’ve probably already done a fifth that looks like this… that’s E5, because I’m on the seventh fret of the A string, which is an E, and then one two three four five up to the fifth note, which is B, so E F G A B, that’s your power chord shape. Or one where you just played on the same fret on two strings at the same time; it’s like… that’s a fourth. So if we look at just the D and the G string open that’s a fourth, so D E F G is four away. So for this what they’re doing is they’re actually doing power chord shapes that are major thirds and minor thirds and what it does is it makes this little melody. So if we just looked at the root notes for this melody… that’s the melody line for it. So on the A string it’s; 12 10 12 10 9 7 9 10. Now if they had taken that and just done the power chords that we traditionally do like a fifth… it sounds considerably different. Now one reason it sounds different is because you’re used to hearing it the way that it’s originally done, so if we look at that little melody line… those are our notes; we’ve got an A G an F sharp and an E, so this is actually in the key of E minor because the notes that are all naturals except one sharp which is F sharp. So what we’re doing is instead of doing the fifths or the fourths we’re doing thirds… So what that’s able for us to do is to have a more pretty sounding harmony instead of just everything being the same because if you’re harmonizing fifths or fourths it’s always the same interval, but here it’s changing from a major third to a minor third. So let’s look at those two shapes for the Zoo riff.
So this first one we’re on the 12th fret of the A string with my third finger in the tenth fret of the D string with my first finger and that is A plus a minor third which is C. So if we look at a chord scale for the key and if you’re not familiar with how to use a chord scale or even what a chord scale is for that matter, I’ll leave a link to a lesson that I did on this that’ll cover all of this, so after you watch that this will make more sense, I’ll just leave a link for that right here. So if we look at the chords in that key, the E chord is minor, the F-sharp is actually a diminished chord, the G is a major and then you have an A minor and an B minor, C major, D major and then back to our E minor again. So that’s how you know which of these notes that you want to use in this key. That A is minor and since this is an A we’re going to do the minor shape and then we go down to a G and in this key G is major so we do our major third shape. So the major third shape is if we’re doing our root note here, we go to the next string and down one fret. So I’m on the tenth fret of the A string with my second finger in the ninth fret the D string with my first finger. Okay so now the next one we go to is F sharp and we’re just doing a minor third; now the chord is actually a diminished chord, but if you look at what the formula for a diminished chord is a minor chord with a flat five, so since we’re not doing the fifths, we’re just doing the third so we can still use our minor shape… Now here its our E minor because we’re here on E on the seventh fret and we’re doing the minor shape because again in that in the key those are the chords. All right, so it’s a cool riff and it’s a good exercise for practicing those shapes because you can mix all of that stuff together using the thirds and the fifths and the fourths and everything. There’s lots of really cool riffs and stuff that you that are based out of that. So something you could do is if we take a melody line and we just played that as single notes around that E it could be kind of like maybe a thrash metal riff… just by playing those notes, those are the notes we were playing for that riff. So if we wanted to do it that way we could mix them together in that sort of a fashion. So you can take just a single string melody line and you can create your own harmony for it or completely change the riff into something else. No one would ever hear this… you can get more mileage out it and make it into other things. Anyway it’s a cool riff and it’s a good exercise for going down through those intervals.
Conclusion
All right, so I hope you enjoyed How To Play The Zoo Riff By The Scorpions and you got something out of it. If you like the lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up. Leave a comment down below if there’s something you’d like to see covered by either myself or one of the other instructors here at GuitarControl.com. If you have not already done so, please subscribe to the channel and click that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Anyway that is all I’ve got for you today. Thanks for watching How To Play The Zoo Riff By The Scorpions and have a great day.
Lessons on Lead Guitar Lick
Check out this free lesson from Guitar Control instructor Darrin Goodman on how to do the Travis Picking technique using the classic Fleetwood Mac riff from landslide. Be sure to click the link for the tabs to go along with this lesson. So lets check out how to Travis Pick.
Introduction
Hey everybody how’s it going? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson and today I want to show you the Travis Picking technique and this is really aimed at beginners and first-time users of this technique. So we’re going to go over just like the basic bare bones of how to do it and in lieu of doing just a boring exercise, we’re gonna actually going to use the intro verse-main riff from the song Landslide by Fleetwood Mac because it uses the Travis Picking technique. So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at Landslide and the Travis Picking Technique.
Landslide Chords
All right, so the first thing we’re going to do, let’s just go over the three chords that we’re going to be using for this and by the way if you want to be in the same key as Fleetwood Mac you’re gonna need to put a capo on the third fret, but you can play this without the capo, it’s just not gonna be in the same key, it’ll sound a little different, but as far as practicing the technique and everything it’s not going to make any difference. All right so the first chord we have is C; so third finger on the third fret of the A string and this is relevant to the capo by the way, so third finger third fret of the A, string second finger second fret of the D string, G string is open and I’m on the first fret of the B string with my first finger. All right, so the next chord is B over G, so it’s like B/G, so to make this transition simple we’re just going to leave our first finger there on the first fret of the B string and we’re going to take our fourth finger and we’re going to put it here onto the third fret of the B string and we’re going to remove our third finger and move our second finger from the second fret of the D string to the second fret of the A string, that’s B/G. And then the next and final chord is A minor seven, so for this we’re just going to take our fourth finger back off and move our middle finger from the A string back to the second fret of the D string… and in the chord progression it just goes from C to G/B to A minor 7 and then back to B/G and then back to C. So the first thing you’re probably going to want to do is maybe just with making those chord changes, so you can just kind of strum if you want… you just want to get it so you can make these chord changes smoothly. All right so now let’s take a look at what we’re going to be doing with our picking hand.
Travis Picking Technique
All right so for our picking hand your thumb is going to be playing the A string and the D string and then your first finger; there’s two ways that you can do this, so one way you can have your first finger place the G string and then your second finger place the B string, but personally especially for this particular piece I find it much easier to use my thumb and my first finger, so if you’re relatively new to finger style guitar this is going to make it a lot easier. Anyway so put your fingers on the C chord and we’re gonna start off with our thumb on the A string and our first finger on the G string. So what we’re gonna do is pluck with our thumb and when we do this we want our thumb just to come to a rest on the fourth string like that and then with your first finger in the motion kind of like you’re pulling a trigger, you want to pull that, you don’t want where you’re pulling your whole hand back like this… see my arm isn’t really moving or my hand, in fact I’ve got my pinky just kind of right here on the edge of the where the sound hole is just to kind of rest my arm. So for this picking pattern we’re gonna go A string to G string and then we just shift up and we go D string to B string. So at first just practice this; A G D B A G D B, just like that. All right so this picking pattern we go A G D B A G D and you’re going to use your thumb to hit the D string just like that. Now you’re gonna do that sequence once per chord. So we’re starting with the C to the G/B to A minor 7 and back to G/B and then back to C.
All right, so with this if you look on the tabs you can see that that all the notes are equally spaced apart from each other on Landslide except that last D, it rings out for just a second longer to kind of give you that transition. Now I can’t remember how many beats per minute, it’s like 70 beats per minute or something, so it’s not really fast, but to be able to play it in that time with this technique is difficult. I played this song for a long time and just did it with regular finger picking style, but it there was always something that just kind of sounded a little bit off, it was like the right notes but something just didn’t quite sound right, there’s just something about that with the thumb in this style that just gives it its unique sound.
Conclusion
All right, so there you have it. That’s just a small little introduction to doing the Travis Picking technique. There’s lots and lots of material other than Landslide, lots and lots of country songs and stuff that use this, folk music that uses this style of playing. So this is just kind of a good exercise to kind of to get both your hands, well mainly your picking hand up to speed on doing this and practicing these chord transitions you know that’s a good exercise for your left hand. Regardless like I said it’s a little more interesting to play a song like Landslide than it is to play an exercise, but this just makes into a great exercise. So what I encourage you to do is just work on it slowly and build up your speed and even if you can work it up to playing it faster than they’re playing it, it might sound weird, might not sound like the song, but it’s just going to be good overall for your playing. Anyway if you like this video be sure to give it a thumbs up. Leave me a comment down below if there’s something you’d like to see in a future lesson either from myself or for one of the other instructors at GuitarControl.com and if you haven’t already, subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so that way you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Anyhow that is all I got for you today. Thanks for watching How To Travis Pick With This Fleetwood Mac Riff and have a great day.
Lessons on 6 Chord Progression on Guitar
Introduction
Hey everybody how’s it going? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson and today I want to show you how to play two Easy Killer Chordal Classic Rock Song Intros that are completely chordal based. They both are utilizing using the shape of just the open D major chord. So for those of you who don’t know when you’re playing this D major chord you’re only playing three notes, so you’re playing the first, third and fifth note of the major scale, so that’s why they call this chord a Triad. So I did a lesson before on triads so if you have not seen that and would like to get some further information so this will all kind of make more sense to you and stuff I’ll go put the link right here for that and you can check that out.
All right so be sure to get the click on the link so you can get the tabs for Easy Killer Chordal Classic Rock Song Intros and easily follow along and let’s get close up and take a look at what we’ve got going on.
Eight Days A Week Chordal Intro
All right so the first Easy Killer Chordal Classic Rock Song Intros I want to show you is how to play the intro for the song Eight Days A Week by The Beatles. So this one’s really easy because it’s just using this D chord shape; so you know I’m fretting the second fret of the G string with my first finger the third fret of the B string with my third finger and the second fret of the high E with my second finger. So for this we’re just going to take that shape and we’re just going to move it around because it is a movable shape. So we start off here in the D position and then we just move that shape up a whole step, so now your first and second finger at the fourth fret and your third finger at the fifth, then we’re going to move it up from there a step and a half so your first and second fingers are on the seventh fret your third finger is on the eight fret. So that whole thing just repeats.
All right so that’s it for this Easy Killer Chordal Classic Rock Song Intro, it’s pretty easy.
End Of The Line Chordal Intro
So the next Easy Killer Chordal Classic Rock Song Intros I want to look at is the intro for the song End Of The Line by The Traveling Wilburys; so this one also is going to utilize using that same shape. So we’re going to start off with our first and second fingers at the seventh fret and our third finger at the eighth and then we just move down to the second fret, back to the original D position, so then we come back up to where we were already and then move it up a whole step and then we’re going to go to a different shape. So in that lesson I was talking about from before on triads goes over all these shapes, they’re rooted on the first second and third strings, so then when we’re playing this shape here that looks like D, we’re actually playing what is called the Second Inversion; so you have your Root Position, First Inversion and Second Inversion.
So on this End Of The Line, we start off then we come back up, move it up a whole step one strum and then we’re gonna do this first inversion chord shape here. So for this I’m barring my first finger across the high E and the B strings at the eighth fret and my second finger is going on to the 11th fret of the G string; and I’m not sure, I think I just may have said this wrong, this is actually I’m barring at the 10th fret, I think I said the eighth fret but I mean the 10th fret, so first finger is barring the 10th fret of the B and the E string and my second finger is picking up the 11th fret of the G string. Then we come back to the seventh and eighth frets again. So we go nine back to seven or that one we just did that first inversion one, back the seven and eight then we’re gonna come up here and we’re gonna lay our first finger all the way flat across the first three strings of the twelfth fret and then the D shape again and now we’re up on 14th fret and 15th fret so we’re playing the D, we’re just a whole octave higher.
Conclusion
All right so I hope you enjoyed Easy Killer Chordal Classic Rock Song Intros and got something out of it. If you like the video be sure to give it a thumbs up. Leave me a comment down below if there’s something you’d like to see covered in a future lesson either by myself or one of the other instructors here at GuitarControl.com. As you can see these triad shapes are really useful. They’re great for just an alternative chord voicing, especially if you’re playing with another guitar player. So I really recommend checking out that other video. Anyway, that is all I’ve got for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.
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]]>Check out this free lesson from Guitar Control instructor Darrin Goodman on the must-know 1 – 4 -5 chord progression. This is the most common chord progression in music and guitarist should Master This Magic Chord Progression.
Introduction
Hey everybody how’s it going? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson and today I want to talk about the 1-4-5 chord progression. So this is a question that I get asked about a lot. You hear in other lessons, you know they’ll talk about songs and they will say this is a one four five, so this just seems to be a topic that has a lot of confusion around it; but it’s actually incredibly simple if you just break it down and you can already do this if you just know some basic chords, you just don’t know that you can already do this. So be sure to click on the link in the description to get the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look.
1 – 4 – 5 Chord Progression
All right, so first thing lets just talk about what a chord progression is. So you already have chords you know; your C and your G, your D, A minor, you know you’ve got all these different chords and when you play a song they’re all put together in a sequence. So you might have something like this. So what that is, is a chord progression, it’s the group of chords that are put together in a certain order and they have a certain duration.
So first of all the 1-4-5 is the most commonly used chord progression across the board and you should Master This Magic Chord Progression. There’s countless songs in any genre you can think of that are all using the one four five chord progression. So simply how we want to break that down is that if you take the major scale and you play the first fourth and fifth note from it, so here we’ll start with G. So the G major scale, if you do not already know the major scale you can actually click right here on the screen and you can go to the lesson that I did just recently on the scale. So if we’re looking at the key of G, I’m starting here on the third fret of the low E because that’s a G and I ascend up to the fourth tone, one, two, three, four and then five. So I have G, C and D, so that’s the one four five, that’s my root note. So now you need to look at the chords that will be based off of that, so in the key of G major the one chord is a major chord, the 4 chord is a major chord and the 5 chord is a major chord. But the one chord can also be a major seventh chord, the 4 chord can also be a major seventh and the fifth chord can be a dominant seventh. So if you really want to dig in into how you determine what chords are based out of the scale then there’s another lesson that I recommend that I’ll put the link right here and this is on a lesson I did on where you can go through and it shows you each chord for each tonality of the major scale, which is just incredibly useful for not only figuring out how to play other songs, but for writing your own songs.
Okay so another simple way that we can determine what one four or five is that you can take starting note, so let’s say we’re going to start here on the fifth fret, so that’s an A, so the note that is straight up from that is D, which is your four chord; the fourth is always just on the same fret on the next string and it’s that way across all the strings except the third and the second and I’ll explain in just a second. So if we were to start here on the fifth fret of the A string, that’s our one chord, our four chord is on the fifth fret of the D string and then the five chord is always one step up from the four chord. So if our 4 chord is on the fifth fret of the D string, our 5 chord would be rooted on the seventh fret. So again we could do A major, D major and E major or we could do A major seven, D major seven and E dominant seven or any combination thereof. You can also do it just with simply with power chords. So you know you just take your power chord shape because a power chord, the most commonly used one is a fifth, so we take that same idea you can get you a Ramones style riff, that’s one four five but just using power chords.
Now you don’t have to use bar chords or power chords necessarily, you can still achieve this by using open chords that you probably started with and if you’re a beginner that you may not even have advanced to bar chords yet; so we could do the same idea with A major, D major and E major, so any combination like that. Now when I was talking about knowing where one four and five is I said it’s always that shape, but when we go from the G string to the B string, the B string is tuned a half step lower, so we have to compensate for that, so our four instead of being on the same fret it’s going to be up one fret. So on the G string it would be the fifth fret and then on the B string your four chord would be rooted off of the sixth fret and then up a whole step from there to the eighth fret for your five chord.
Song Examples
So this one four five progression like is used in lots and lots of stuff. So if we look at a song like Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door; G – D – C, so it’s one four five, but then the second time around it actually changes. Now it’s G – D – A minor, so the first part of is 1 – 5 – 4 actually, but you can take those three chords and you can change the order up on them. So 1 – 5 – 4 and then 1 – 5 – 2 because it goes to A minor and that is the chord that starts on the second degree of the major scale. So another kind of a cool thing that can be done that’s done with the 1 – 4 – 5 is your typical blues.
So this is another thing you hear about is a 12 bar 1 – 4 – 5 blues. A typical one would be in the key of E, our low E string is our one chord so if we go straight up since we’re not playing on a fret we’re playing the open string it would be your open A string and our 5 is the second fret because we’re going a whole step from the open A string, but it doesn’t really have a bluesy kind of a sound, so you could substitute that with seventh chords. So if we take E and we just remove your third finger so now that the D string is being played open that’s e7 and if we take our A chord and we change that so our G string is open that is A7 and then we have B7, second fret of the A string with my second finger, first fret of the D string with my first finger, third fret of the G string with my third finger and then the B string is open and the second fret of the high E with my fourth finger, that’s b7. So you have two bars of the one chord and one bar of four chord and then back to two bars of the one chord and then two bars of the four five chord, one bar of the four chord and then back to two bars of the one chord; that’s your typical twelve bar 1 – 4 – 5.
So if you enjoyed this video Master This Magic Chord Progression please give me a thumbs up. Leave a comment down below if there’s something you’d like to see covered in a future lesson by myself or one of the other instructors here at guitarcontrol.com. Thanks for watching and have a great day.
