Chords for 2 (Jaw Dropping) but SIMPLE tricks to playing Beautiful acoustic guitar chords

[G] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ Okay, so check this out.
_ _ We can do this _ by _ just taking parts of a chord.
And the two
chords I'm basically going [G] to work off of _ _ _ _ _ is basically, I'm going to combine a G _ and
a D.
But you don't really, you know, we're changing, in actuality we're kind of just
changing this G [D] chord.
But it's the shape of a D chord, okay?
[G] So, _ [D] for _ _ _ [G] the most part,
it's really just these two fingers.
_ [D] And then what we're going to do is _ accentuate the melody
with our other fingers.
In this case, I'm just going to use one.
[G] And maybe put in my
pinky or something like that to catch another melody note. _
_ [C] Now, I'll break down what we're
going to do strum-wise. _
But then we can just take the same finger, keep this finger rooted
the whole time where it's at, and then just drop the finger.
And [Bm] what you can do [Bb] is just
[B] _
[C] move that finger around, right?
[B] You know, you have to [Bb] change the first finger.
[B] _ [C] But you
can take a melody line and just really keep it, for [G] the most part, two fingers.
[Gm] Now, we
might like, again, we [G] might have to shift the fingers. _
But you really don't have to
make it super complicated to get a song out of something, okay?
So, basically working
off of G, [D] [G] D, and then we're going to use this as [Bb] like a [G] movable bass line, _ okay?
So, when
I'm at the G, _ _ [D] _
_ _ all's I'm doing, [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ [G] right? _ _
_ _ Or let's see how to do it. _ _ _
_ So, down, down, up,
[D] up, down.
[G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ And all's I did is I put my first finger where that D chord would be.
And I
kept this as kind of my low bass note.
But now I basically got a D chord here that I'm
kind of _ accentuating.
And I'm not hitting the high E string for the most part.
So, you
don't even have to hit all the strings either.
The great thing is, [G] is it's easy not to hit
the highest string when you're strumming.
It's harder not to hit the top string when
we're going for a full strum.
So, in this case, it's totally illegal.
_ All right?
So,
we got it.
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ _
[D] And then you can just go down, up, down, up if [G] you want. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ Now, on the second
time, instead of going down, up, down, up, I can do like a hammer-on [G]-pull-off, [Gb] _ [G] _ _
_ okay?
Now, that might be difficult _ if you're new at the game.
But if you've got, you know,
a little bit of finger dexterity with a little bit of work, it's not that hard.
And it opens
up so many different possibilities of things that you can do.
So, all's I did is I hit
the G string open, _ _ _ _ okay?
Now, the trick to hammer-ons and pull-offs, especially on an
acoustic, it's not how hard you press.
It's how quickly you do it.
So, if I do the G string
open and I don't do it quick enough, it'll mute out the note.
But if I [Am] hammer quickly,
[A] I almost get the same volume that I would from picking it.
And I'm just hitting, attacking
the string at the [D] right speed so it's quicker than if my finger just hit it [G] and actually
mute out, [A]
muted out the [G] actual string.
_ Okay?
So, I did [D]
[G] hammer and then I pulled off.
[Gb] And
then with my pinky, I grabbed the fourth fret of the D [G] string and then I came back
to the G. _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ Right?
[G] _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [D] Right, that time I just pulled [G] off.
_ [A] _ [G] _ _ _ Anything you [B] want to do, [A] right?
We have,
[Gb] _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] right?
We can do, we can work with the G string fourth fret, [A] _ second fret [G]
open, [Gb] D string, [E] four, _
[D] two, open as [G] well. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] Right?
_ _ [G] _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ So, just using these [G] two fingers and outlining the chord, [C] we get to use
our other fingers to do a melody line that maybe will be the counter melody to our vocal melody,
but really, you know, add some _ depth to a simple chord shape in progression, especially if you're
by yourself.
Now, what we can do too is say we want the, you know, _ verse part to go into a chorus.
So, kind of like a pre-chorus.
_ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ [Gm] [C] Now, _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [C] what I did _ [G]
is _ _ _ _ I just moved _ chromatically, which is one fret at
a time, [C]
from the C note, third [B] fret, which is the A string third fret, _ to B, [Bb] _ _ to B [C] flat.
Now,
that's a [Bm] little bit [Bb] tricky, and then I hammered.
Now, [C] that in itself is not an easy move, but again,
with practice, everybody out there can do it.
_ [G] _ Now, what I'm going to [C] do, _ [G] again, this finger has not
moved the whole time.
So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to [Cm] do down strokes, [G] _ and then I'm really
going to accentuate that note right there, _ B string third fret with an [C] upstroke.
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ Right?
And this time,
I'm not going to go all the way [D] down to the B flat again.
I'll just go to D. _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ And it can be one of
those songs where the chorus is the same as the verse, right?
Because they do that a lot.
They just
will vary either the duration of the chords, right?
So, the G's twice as long, or half as long, but it's
the same chord structure and chord progression.
They just manipulate the timing of it, and then
go to a chorus.
Or sometimes they just keep it the same.
So, again, _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ [Cm] _ [D] _ _ _
that's totally enough for a whole
song.
[G] Basically, G, [D] C, D, and then there's a billion songs written for those three chords.
[G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _