Chords for 3 TIPS THAT WILL INSTANTLY IMPROVE YOUR GUITAR PLAYING!!!

Three tips that will instantly improve your guitar playing.
Yes, that's what we're going to focus on in this [D] video. _ _ _
[A] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ Now let's say you're going to play a bit of simple rhythm guitar, _ EAB7.
What would most people play? _ _
[A] _ _ _ [Dm] _ [B] _ _ _ [E] _
_ Well, probably something like that, right?
But you can also play it like this. _ _ _
[A] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ Sounds totally different, very complex, but those were the same three chords.
The difference is knowing more than one way to play a chord.
For example, E, _ _ you can play it like_
_ _ _ _ _ Those are all E chords, different shapes to do the one chord.
And all those different shapes have their own unique tone.
Now before you say, well, okay, my god, do I have to learn all those different shapes just for one chord?
It's actually very simple.
Here's the secret.
When you look at the simple open chords, there are only five major chords you can play, right? _
[G] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _
_ _ That's it.
There aren't any more.
These are the simple beginner major chords we all know, right?
But if I take one of these chords and I slide on up_
[Db] _ [Gm] _
[E] _ _ All right, there we go. _
That's a second way of playing the E chord.
Might add a little bar.
_ _ Now I know two ways of [D] doing the E chord.
How about _ the D? _ _
Slide [Eb] up.
[E] _ There we go. _
That's three.
[A] A.
_ _ [E] Add the bar maybe.
_ _ [G] Four ways of doing the E chord.
Finally, the G.
How's that?
_ _ _ [Ab] _
[Em] _ _ [E] _ _ _ There we go.
[F] Now I know five different ways of playing the E chord.
Gives me a ton of variety and different choices.
And I know the shapes because, hey, these are all simple chords.
It's just a matter of knowing where to play them on the fretboard.
[Eb] Now that's major chords, but how about minor chords?
Well, again, the same idea [Db] applies.
Let's [Cm] take a look at the easiest [Gm] beginner minor chords we have.
[Dm] You'll find [Em] there are only three.
_ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ [Am] All the other minor chords are bar chords.
There are only three beginner shapes.
Now, same thing.
Let's say I want multiple ways to play the A minor.
_ Okay, [Em] let's take the E minor.
Slide up again.
_ [Gb] _ [Am] _
_ _ Add the bar. _ _
That's another A minor.
_ Start a D minor shape.
Here we [Dm] go.
[N] _ _ [Abm] _ [Am] _ Yeah.
_ _ D minor, A minor, A minor.
So knowing all these different shapes for [Bm] minor as well as major,
now we have all the possibilities.
You've opened up the whole fretboard.
But that also brings us to tip number two.
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [A]
Now, knowing different shapes [Bm] to do one chord is one thing.
And it's a great thing if you know that.
But it's another thing altogether to [A] know which shape to play when.
You show an example.
Let's say we're going to play a very [Bm] simple chord structure.
A, [D] F sharp minor, D, E.
A beginner would play [Ab] probably something [A] like_
_ _ [Gb] _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ _
And if you know the different shapes,
you can open up all the possibilities on the fretboard, right?
But just knowing different shapes to do one chord doesn't guarantee a great result.
Let me show you.
Let's say I play it like this. _ _ _ _
[B] _ [Gbm] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ That didn't sound particularly well, did it?
And why not?
I was playing the correct chords.
I didn't make any mistakes.
I was using different shapes all over the fretboard.
But the thing is, if I go from one chord to another,
and the other chord or shape is far away,
I can do that once.
But if I do that all the time, _ that's just gonna sound horrible.
The thing is, as a general rule,
you want to play the shape that you're closest to on the fretboard.
So I'm going to start with A here. _ _
The next chord is F sharp minor.
What's my closest F sharp [Gbm] minor?
_ _ _ _ _ It's that.
Next chord, D.
What's my closest D?
It's not this one.
No, _ [D] _ _
it's this one.
So I always choose, [A] as a rule, not always,
the chord shape that I'm closest to.
_ _ _ [Gbm] _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ [Ab] Okay, [Ebm] last tip.
Let's say we play something very, very [Bbm] simple.
C, F, G.
[C] _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ [C] _ _ Hopefully, after watching this video,
you also will be able to play it somewhere else on the fretboard. _ _
[F] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _
But the [N] icing on the cake, of course, is to use _ _ embellishments.
[C] _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ [C] _ _
Now, that looked very complicated,
but still, the bare bone structure was still C, F, and G.
Only I added all these extra bells and whistles to it.
Now, before you say that's undoable,
remember, there are only five general _ major shapes,
and also only three minor ones.
The key is to know which embellishment works with which shape.
[E] Example, let's take the E chord. _
_ _ If I know I'm going to play the E chord like this,
I know all my embellishments beforehand.
It's all pinky finger here.
_ _ _ _ _ Let's take another E chord.
Let's take this one.
I'm going to play the E like this.
I already know beforehand I got my _ _ _ embellishment [Gbm] right [E] here.
_ _ Let's do another one.
Let's take the C shape, _ use it as an E chord.
Here we are.
If I play it like this, embellishment, pinky finger. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ So for each of the five shapes, I know already my embellishment.
I don't have to remember an infinite amount of embellishments
only for each of the five major shapes,
as well as for the three minor shapes.
And if you know that, then your guitar playing can transform from [C] simple _ [F] to _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [D] _ [C]
awesome.
[F] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
[Ab] _ _ _ _ [Gm] Okay, let's do a little recap.
What were the three tips?
Number one, [Ab] no different shapes to play one chord.
Don't just play that one [Gm] chord the same way each and every time.
A chord.
[A] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] It's nice [Gm] to have all those different choices.
Then second, [Ab] try to pick the shape that you're closest to on the fretboard.
Now that might sound simple, but [Gm] the thing is,
if you're playing a song and you're in the moment, [Cm] you [Ab] don't have time to [B] _ do_
[Ab]
Uh, wait a minute.
_ _ You _ _ have to be able to pick that shape within an instant.
And that of course takes a bit of time.
[Gm] Three, finally the icing on the cake is to [Cm] add some of these _ [Ab] embellishments.
And basically most of the time it's the pinky finger [Gm] or the ring finger
[Fm] doing a hammer [Gm] on and pull off.
[A] _ _ _
[Dbm] _ _ _ _ _ [Gbm] _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ It sounds so easy when I say it like that,
but [Ab] of course this also took me _ years and years to master.
Anyway, that's it for today guys.
I hope you enjoyed this video.
This was Guitar Pilgrim signing out and I will see you. _ _ _ _