Guitar Chord Progressions (4 of 6) - The Whack-A-Mole Lesson
Hey, and welcome back to this, our fourth in a series of lessons about guitar chord progressions.
Now this time, we're going to shift our perspective relative to how guitar chords connect and we're going to do this by asking a different question. Now in previous lessons in the first three, we asked ourselves, "How do we connect one chord with another chord?" In this lesson, we're going to ask the question, "How are two guitar chords already connected?" Once we perceive this, how can we express that connection to our listeners?
It's like when we first meet someone. The first thing we do instinctively is to find out where we connect, what we have in common and the more meaningful that connection is to us, the kind of more open we are to really resonate and harmonize with someone. Resonating and harmonizing, those are fundamentally musical experiences and they feel good. For example, you and I have music in common and even closer to that, we have guitar in common. We look and we find these and we appreciate these things with each other.
To find this in relationship with our G chord and our C chord, well, you know, look and we can see that this open ringing string, the G string, is common to both chords and we can highlight this with what I call Whack-a-mole. If you don't know what Whack-a-mole is yet, here's a link that you can click on to and that will lead you to a video. If you do know, you know that the mole pops up its head and you take the mallet and you pop it! Whack it!
Exactly like that, we want this kind of contrast to come up so that the mole comes up against the flat ground. We're going to emphasize this open note which would sound something like this. In that way, we can really hear what connects those two chords and a way that we can expand on this is to take this common note and go just above it. Stray a little bit and come right back or suspend and resolve. That would sound something like this.
These are the two new ways, the two new things you can experiment with that I have for you today regarding guitar chord progressions. Let's stay connected. You can like this video, subscribe to this channel, comment, converse, question, visit http://www.PaulRussellMusic.com and I look forward to the next time that we connect.
Guitar chord progressions
Now this time, we're going to shift our perspective relative to how guitar chords connect and we're going to do this by asking a different question. Now in previous lessons in the first three, we asked ourselves, "How do we connect one chord with another chord?" In this lesson, we're going to ask the question, "How are two guitar chords already connected?" Once we perceive this, how can we express that connection to our listeners?
It's like when we first meet someone. The first thing we do instinctively is to find out where we connect, what we have in common and the more meaningful that connection is to us, the kind of more open we are to really resonate and harmonize with someone. Resonating and harmonizing, those are fundamentally musical experiences and they feel good. For example, you and I have music in common and even closer to that, we have guitar in common. We look and we find these and we appreciate these things with each other.
To find this in relationship with our G chord and our C chord, well, you know, look and we can see that this open ringing string, the G string, is common to both chords and we can highlight this with what I call Whack-a-mole. If you don't know what Whack-a-mole is yet, here's a link that you can click on to and that will lead you to a video. If you do know, you know that the mole pops up its head and you take the mallet and you pop it! Whack it!
Exactly like that, we want this kind of contrast to come up so that the mole comes up against the flat ground. We're going to emphasize this open note which would sound something like this. In that way, we can really hear what connects those two chords and a way that we can expand on this is to take this common note and go just above it. Stray a little bit and come right back or suspend and resolve. That would sound something like this.
These are the two new ways, the two new things you can experiment with that I have for you today regarding guitar chord progressions. Let's stay connected. You can like this video, subscribe to this channel, comment, converse, question, visit http://www.PaulRussellMusic.com and I look forward to the next time that we connect.
Guitar chord progressions
