Learning Simple Chord Progressions

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Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Beginner Topic: Chords Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Hey all and thanks for joining me! In this tutorial we will be taking a look at how to play some simple chord progressions with two example progressions to get our teeth into. To begin with I guess we need to know exactly what chord progressions are. A chord progression can be explained as a succession of chords played one after the other to create harmoni...

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Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Beginner Topic: Chords Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Ok lets take a closer look at the role of the left hand. It is essential at this point that you understand the importance of economising the movement in the left hand. By doing so it will give you the facility to play whatever you wish with the minimum of effort. So, how do we minimise the left hand movement? With chord progressions, the most efficient me...

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Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Beginner Topic: Chords Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Now that you have the techniques needed to play chord progressions lets kick of with our first example which will highlight the use of Anchor finger technique. Finger 3 of the left hand will be the common thread between our 3 chords here, which are: Dmajor - Cadd9 - Gmajor When moving from the Dmajor to Cadd9 chord, you must keep finger 3 of the left hand...

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Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Beginner Topic: Chords Style: Any Style

Excerpt: OK it's time to learn our second chord progression example! This time we will be concentrating on a progression which contains the Guide finger technique. The chords we will be playing are as follows: Dmajor - Emajor - Gmajor - Amajor. The guide finger this time will be the 1st finger of the left hand at the 2nd fret of the 3rd string and will occur whe...

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