Chords for 5 Minute Guitar Lesson: Julian Lage's Practice & Warm Up Tips
Tempo:
57.925 bpm
Chords used:
E
B
Em
C
A
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[E] [Em] [Bm] [E] [Em]
[B] [E]
Hi there, this is Julian Lodge, and I'm here to offer some tips about playing the guitar, specifically the acoustic guitar.
This whole realm is something I've been
working on my whole life, and I'm in love with it, and it's a constant challenge, and
I'm always fine-tuning the things that I think help you feel more comfortable as an acoustic guitarist.
One of the biggest
hurdles that I've run into, and I think a lot of fellow guitarists have as well, is that
you think when you play an acoustic guitar often you have to work harder, or play with more muscular tension, or somehow
manifest a sound, and
one of the things that has helped me a lot is to practice playing
acoustic guitar extremely quietly, and touching it very gently, and
[B] trying to get in touch with
the guitar's ability to kind of turn whatever you do into a beautiful [A] sound.
That's kind of why acoustic guitars are [C] cool, that they're already doing a lot of the work for you.
So one of the most basic things I've done to work on that is practicing scales,
where I don't have any vibrato, and one of the tendencies is we'll play a note, and we'll kind of goose it, [B] and
that can have
[C]
aesthetic effects, it can give it vibrato,
but often it's kind of a nervous tension that can kind of diffuse the sound of the guitar more than enhance it.
So if you're looking for a way to just kind of slow down and get in touch with the acoustic guitar as a tool,
I would say a good way to do that is to practice [C] very plainly.
[D] [E] [F] [Em] [A]
[Em] [Gb] This is a little [Bb] bit
unrelated to any specific thing on the guitar, but it has more to do with [F] what you do when you're in a rut.
Most of my life has been
punctuated by these periods where I have no idea what I'm doing, [B] and I feel at a loss for how to fix it,
and it can be depressing,
and it can also be enlightening, because
you have to face your issues, and everyone's got different things.
But the one
continual thread for me has always been that I want to play music, and
it sounds so simple and almost obvious, but what I try to make time for every day if I can,
whether it be literally one minute, I'll set a timer, or five minutes, or ten minutes, or an hour, is just to play
music on the guitar.
For me that tends to largely be improvised,
but
there can be
nothing more frustrating than picking up the guitar and feeling like you're not allowed [A] to play until you practice X, Y, and Z.
So [C] start out with just playing [E] something you like.
You know, if I picked up the guitar first thing today, I'd probably do something like this.
[Em] [Bm]
[E] [Em] [Bb] [B]
[E]
And
it's [N] different every time, but the point is now I can work on whatever
felt challenging during the midst of that, or something I thought, well, those harmonics are cool.
Then I'll spend a half hour on harmonics, or, wow,
I wish I had this a little more [C] fluid, and then I could practice [B] that.
But it starts with you playing music, and that [Gb] might help you if you're ever in a rut.
The [B] biggest thing that I
continually come back to as an
acoustic guitar player is that there's usually one technique or another that I want to perfect.
You know, often it's the right hand.
I'm more of a flat picker.
I do some hybrid picking.
I don't know much about finger style, although I appreciate it.
And
I've spent a lot of time working on right hand techniques, often at the exclusion of the [E] left hand.
Early on, I realized I kind of made a division that was
potentially unhealthy, which is I started seeing my job as
someone who had to train one hand, and then train the other, and then go back and forth.
As well
as much as I had good intentions,
it made me think about them as two separate [N] things.
So whenever you're practicing, if you spend 20 minutes thinking about your right hand, think about your left hand for 20 minutes.
Don't forget about your legs.
You know, if they're locked and you're playing, it'll often cause an overall sense of tension.
But I had a teacher once who told me very wisely, he said, you don't want to be a one-handed guitar player.
And I knew what he meant.
You don't want to say, I don't want to be someone who's super robust over here,
but not nearly as elegant in other places that I need to be.
So whatever you
[B] [E]
Hi there, this is Julian Lodge, and I'm here to offer some tips about playing the guitar, specifically the acoustic guitar.
This whole realm is something I've been
working on my whole life, and I'm in love with it, and it's a constant challenge, and
I'm always fine-tuning the things that I think help you feel more comfortable as an acoustic guitarist.
One of the biggest
hurdles that I've run into, and I think a lot of fellow guitarists have as well, is that
you think when you play an acoustic guitar often you have to work harder, or play with more muscular tension, or somehow
manifest a sound, and
one of the things that has helped me a lot is to practice playing
acoustic guitar extremely quietly, and touching it very gently, and
[B] trying to get in touch with
the guitar's ability to kind of turn whatever you do into a beautiful [A] sound.
That's kind of why acoustic guitars are [C] cool, that they're already doing a lot of the work for you.
So one of the most basic things I've done to work on that is practicing scales,
where I don't have any vibrato, and one of the tendencies is we'll play a note, and we'll kind of goose it, [B] and
that can have
[C]
aesthetic effects, it can give it vibrato,
but often it's kind of a nervous tension that can kind of diffuse the sound of the guitar more than enhance it.
So if you're looking for a way to just kind of slow down and get in touch with the acoustic guitar as a tool,
I would say a good way to do that is to practice [C] very plainly.
[D] [E] [F] [Em] [A]
[Em] [Gb] This is a little [Bb] bit
unrelated to any specific thing on the guitar, but it has more to do with [F] what you do when you're in a rut.
Most of my life has been
punctuated by these periods where I have no idea what I'm doing, [B] and I feel at a loss for how to fix it,
and it can be depressing,
and it can also be enlightening, because
you have to face your issues, and everyone's got different things.
But the one
continual thread for me has always been that I want to play music, and
it sounds so simple and almost obvious, but what I try to make time for every day if I can,
whether it be literally one minute, I'll set a timer, or five minutes, or ten minutes, or an hour, is just to play
music on the guitar.
For me that tends to largely be improvised,
but
there can be
nothing more frustrating than picking up the guitar and feeling like you're not allowed [A] to play until you practice X, Y, and Z.
So [C] start out with just playing [E] something you like.
You know, if I picked up the guitar first thing today, I'd probably do something like this.
[Em] [Bm]
[E] [Em] [Bb] [B]
[E]
And
it's [N] different every time, but the point is now I can work on whatever
felt challenging during the midst of that, or something I thought, well, those harmonics are cool.
Then I'll spend a half hour on harmonics, or, wow,
I wish I had this a little more [C] fluid, and then I could practice [B] that.
But it starts with you playing music, and that [Gb] might help you if you're ever in a rut.
The [B] biggest thing that I
continually come back to as an
acoustic guitar player is that there's usually one technique or another that I want to perfect.
You know, often it's the right hand.
I'm more of a flat picker.
I do some hybrid picking.
I don't know much about finger style, although I appreciate it.
And
I've spent a lot of time working on right hand techniques, often at the exclusion of the [E] left hand.
Early on, I realized I kind of made a division that was
potentially unhealthy, which is I started seeing my job as
someone who had to train one hand, and then train the other, and then go back and forth.
As well
as much as I had good intentions,
it made me think about them as two separate [N] things.
So whenever you're practicing, if you spend 20 minutes thinking about your right hand, think about your left hand for 20 minutes.
Don't forget about your legs.
You know, if they're locked and you're playing, it'll often cause an overall sense of tension.
But I had a teacher once who told me very wisely, he said, you don't want to be a one-handed guitar player.
And I knew what he meant.
You don't want to say, I don't want to be someone who's super robust over here,
but not nearly as elegant in other places that I need to be.
So whatever you
Key:
E
B
Em
C
A
E
B
Em
[E] _ _ [Em] _ _ [Bm] _ [E] _ [Em] _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ Hi there, this is Julian Lodge, and I'm here to offer some tips about playing the guitar, specifically the acoustic guitar.
This whole realm is something I've been
working on my whole life, and I'm in love with it, and it's a constant challenge, and
I'm always fine-tuning the things that I think help you feel more comfortable as an acoustic guitarist.
One of the biggest
hurdles that I've run into, and I think a lot of fellow guitarists have as well, is that
you think when you play an acoustic guitar often you have to work harder, or play with more muscular tension, or somehow
manifest a sound, and
one of the things that has helped me a lot is to practice playing
acoustic guitar extremely quietly, and touching it very gently, and
[B] trying to get in touch with
the guitar's ability to kind of turn whatever you do into a beautiful [A] sound.
That's kind of why acoustic guitars are [C] cool, that they're already doing a lot of the work for you.
So one of the most basic things I've done to work on that is practicing scales,
where I don't have any vibrato, and one of the tendencies is we'll play a note, and we'll kind of goose it, _ [B] and
that can have
_ [C]
aesthetic effects, it can give it vibrato,
but often it's kind of a nervous tension that can kind of diffuse the sound of the guitar more than enhance it.
So if you're looking for a way to just kind of slow down and get in touch with the acoustic guitar as a tool,
I would say a good way to do that is to practice [C] very plainly.
[D] _ [E] _ _ [F] _ [Em] _ [A] _ _
[Em] _ [Gb] _ _ This is a little [Bb] bit
unrelated to any specific thing on the guitar, but it has more to do with [F] what you do when you're in a rut.
Most of my life has been
punctuated by these periods where I have no idea what I'm doing, [B] and I feel at a loss for how to fix it,
and it can be depressing,
and it can also be enlightening, because
you have to face your issues, and everyone's got different things.
But the one
continual thread for me has always been that I want to play music, and
it sounds so simple and almost obvious, but what I try to make time for every day if I can,
whether it be literally one minute, I'll set a timer, or five minutes, or ten minutes, or an hour, is just to play
music on the guitar.
For me that tends to largely be improvised,
but
there can be
nothing more frustrating than picking up the guitar and feeling like you're not allowed [A] to play until you practice X, Y, and Z.
So [C] start out with just playing [E] something you like.
You know, if I picked up the guitar first thing today, I'd probably do something like this.
_ _ [Em] _ _ [Bm] _
[E] _ [Em] _ _ _ [Bb] _ [B] _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
And
it's [N] different every time, but the point is now I can work on whatever
felt challenging during the midst of that, or something I thought, well, those harmonics are cool.
Then I'll spend a half hour on harmonics, or, wow,
I wish I had this a little more [C] fluid, and then I could practice [B] that.
But it starts with you playing music, and that [Gb] might help you if you're ever in a rut.
The [B] biggest thing that I
continually come back to as an
acoustic guitar player is that there's usually one technique or another that I want to perfect.
You know, often it's the right hand.
I'm more of a flat picker.
I do some hybrid picking.
I don't know much about finger style, although I appreciate it.
And
I've spent a lot of time working on right hand techniques, often at the exclusion of the [E] left hand.
Early on, I realized I kind of made a division that was
potentially unhealthy, which is I started seeing my job as
someone who had to train one hand, and then train the other, and then go back and forth.
As well
as much as I had good intentions,
it made me think about them as two separate [N] things.
So whenever you're practicing, if you spend 20 minutes thinking about your right hand, think about your left hand for 20 minutes.
Don't forget about your legs.
You know, if they're locked and you're playing, it'll often cause an overall sense of tension.
But I had a teacher once who told me very wisely, he said, you don't want to be a one-handed guitar player.
And I knew what he meant.
You don't want to say, I don't want to be someone who's super robust over here,
but not nearly as elegant in other places that I need to be.
So whatever you
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ Hi there, this is Julian Lodge, and I'm here to offer some tips about playing the guitar, specifically the acoustic guitar.
This whole realm is something I've been
working on my whole life, and I'm in love with it, and it's a constant challenge, and
I'm always fine-tuning the things that I think help you feel more comfortable as an acoustic guitarist.
One of the biggest
hurdles that I've run into, and I think a lot of fellow guitarists have as well, is that
you think when you play an acoustic guitar often you have to work harder, or play with more muscular tension, or somehow
manifest a sound, and
one of the things that has helped me a lot is to practice playing
acoustic guitar extremely quietly, and touching it very gently, and
[B] trying to get in touch with
the guitar's ability to kind of turn whatever you do into a beautiful [A] sound.
That's kind of why acoustic guitars are [C] cool, that they're already doing a lot of the work for you.
So one of the most basic things I've done to work on that is practicing scales,
where I don't have any vibrato, and one of the tendencies is we'll play a note, and we'll kind of goose it, _ [B] and
that can have
_ [C]
aesthetic effects, it can give it vibrato,
but often it's kind of a nervous tension that can kind of diffuse the sound of the guitar more than enhance it.
So if you're looking for a way to just kind of slow down and get in touch with the acoustic guitar as a tool,
I would say a good way to do that is to practice [C] very plainly.
[D] _ [E] _ _ [F] _ [Em] _ [A] _ _
[Em] _ [Gb] _ _ This is a little [Bb] bit
unrelated to any specific thing on the guitar, but it has more to do with [F] what you do when you're in a rut.
Most of my life has been
punctuated by these periods where I have no idea what I'm doing, [B] and I feel at a loss for how to fix it,
and it can be depressing,
and it can also be enlightening, because
you have to face your issues, and everyone's got different things.
But the one
continual thread for me has always been that I want to play music, and
it sounds so simple and almost obvious, but what I try to make time for every day if I can,
whether it be literally one minute, I'll set a timer, or five minutes, or ten minutes, or an hour, is just to play
music on the guitar.
For me that tends to largely be improvised,
but
there can be
nothing more frustrating than picking up the guitar and feeling like you're not allowed [A] to play until you practice X, Y, and Z.
So [C] start out with just playing [E] something you like.
You know, if I picked up the guitar first thing today, I'd probably do something like this.
_ _ [Em] _ _ [Bm] _
[E] _ [Em] _ _ _ [Bb] _ [B] _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
And
it's [N] different every time, but the point is now I can work on whatever
felt challenging during the midst of that, or something I thought, well, those harmonics are cool.
Then I'll spend a half hour on harmonics, or, wow,
I wish I had this a little more [C] fluid, and then I could practice [B] that.
But it starts with you playing music, and that [Gb] might help you if you're ever in a rut.
The [B] biggest thing that I
continually come back to as an
acoustic guitar player is that there's usually one technique or another that I want to perfect.
You know, often it's the right hand.
I'm more of a flat picker.
I do some hybrid picking.
I don't know much about finger style, although I appreciate it.
And
I've spent a lot of time working on right hand techniques, often at the exclusion of the [E] left hand.
Early on, I realized I kind of made a division that was
potentially unhealthy, which is I started seeing my job as
someone who had to train one hand, and then train the other, and then go back and forth.
As well
as much as I had good intentions,
it made me think about them as two separate [N] things.
So whenever you're practicing, if you spend 20 minutes thinking about your right hand, think about your left hand for 20 minutes.
Don't forget about your legs.
You know, if they're locked and you're playing, it'll often cause an overall sense of tension.
But I had a teacher once who told me very wisely, he said, you don't want to be a one-handed guitar player.
And I knew what he meant.
You don't want to say, I don't want to be someone who's super robust over here,
but not nearly as elegant in other places that I need to be.
So whatever you