Today we’ve got another guitar lesson on triads – those super-handy three note chords that you can find all over the fretboard! Previously, we looked at Root 1 or E Shaped Triads, as well as Root 2 or D Shaped Triads, and today we’re looking at Root 3, or A Shaped Triads. This means that our
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Today I’ve got a cool little trick to share with you – the “muted stroke strum.” This isn’t something I use all the time, but when it fits, it really shines. If you like listening to Jack Johnson, you’ll hear him using his kind of technique all the time. We’ll start off with a simple
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Today, we’re diving into D-shaped triads on the first, second, and third strings. Building on my previous video about triads related to root 6 bar chords, we’ll focus on moving these D-shaped chords around the fretboard, sticking to the key of D. We’ll start with the familiar D major chord, and the most important thing
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Today, I want to look at some ideas for creating a musical storyline in your guitar playing. The goal here is to create a sense of movement in your chord progressions. It’s about feeling like you’ve started at one point and ended somewhere different, essentially crafting a journey within your music. To illustrate this, let’s consider
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This is a great hybrid picking pattern to get started with, if you’ve never tried hybrid picking before. One of the biggest benefits of hybrid picking, in my mind at least, is that you gain the ability to pick multiple places at once – something you simply cannot do with just a pick. Your pick is
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I’ve called this the Ping Pong picking pattern, because it has a lot of bouncing back and forth, and because it sounds cool! Whenever you’re picking, it’s really important to know where the root notes are for the chords you’re playing. Root notes set the character and direction for the rest of the chord, and
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