Chords for Acoustic Blues and Slide Guitar Lessons - Basic Fingerpicking Blues vamp w slide

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_ _ _ Nice Ben.
We got Ben Powell here.
This is Marty in the [C] background filming. _ _
Ben is going
to show us, I was thinking like a nice kind of intro finger picking pattern, just [N] something
to work on.
Your guitar is in open G tuning, [C] which people can find [Abm] another video on that,
no problem.
And then basically [C] we're going to take just a nice finger pattern [Eb] to start
with now.
You don't, Ben you can correct me here, [Abm] I know you use metal [Em] finger picks there.
I do, I got some metal finger picks [N] on.
Thumb pick.
Now not everyone needs to start this
way.
Personally I can't use metal, I mean I haven't spent_
It's just a different tone.
Exactly.
So don't worry about that out there folks.
Not necessary.
Not necessary.
But yeah
just show us kind of like your way to break it down and we'll see what we can get out
of it.
So basically I'm going to show you just a little groove in open G and basically
we're just bouncing around on the one chord, a seventh chord which is going to be a G7. _
_ [Dm] And _ we'll kind of just show [B] a little pattern here.
[Bb] It's not an official finger picking
pattern I wouldn't say.
I would say it's more of a groove and something to build the song
around or something to do while you're staying on the one in G.
So [Dm] we're looking at, _ that's
our chord shape there on the third fret. _ _
It's a G7.
[G] And then our thumb is going to be on
the G7.
And we're going to be basically [D] doing this.
The G and the [Gm] D string. _
And with the
thumb pick you can kind of give a little up break like that once in a while.
It gives
you a cool rhythmic [B] little trick.
If you're not using the thumb pick don't worry about
it.
You'll figure something else out to fill in.
_ _ _ [Bb] So let's just start with a little groove.
Establish the thumb and then the fingers are going to be playing the melody.
The idea here
is just to like I said, nice simple groove on the one. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [G] You'll see I'm accidentally hitting
the G string once in a while.
It's not so bad sounding because we're in G.
_ And even
if you hit the D string it's not going to sound bad.
It would be like a percussive thing
that you can use to your advantage.
But the main notes that we're looking for are these
two and then these [Dm] two. _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [D] Kind of syncopating.
[Gm] _ _ _ [D] These guys are playing in between the [Gm] beats
there.
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And I'm striking these two strings with these two fingers at the same time.
[Eb] Giving
you that illusion that I'm playing a full chord when really [B] I'm just [Dm] doing this.
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_ _ _ _ [Bbm] _ _ [Dm] And
the cool thing about doing something basic like this is that you [Bb] can really spice it
up very easily just by [G]
little things.
_ [A] _ You [G] _
do _ _ [Gm] _ _ [Bbm] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ [Bb] _ that for a while and then you want [Gm] to go
to your full chord. _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [Dm] The whole thing to this is the [Gm] groove though.
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_ Yeah.
[Eb] Okay.
I have a
[D] question.
I [N] don't even know what it's going to be.
Do you _ _ have one thing that you remember
like practicing or like some little breakthrough thing that you have that you remember really
helped you or a concept when it came to learning this style?
Yeah, actually there's a couple
things.
The thumb of course is [G] one breakthrough when you are finally able to play _ rhythm and
then play some kind of melody.
No matter how simple it is on top of it without breaking
that thumb pattern, that's a breakthrough.
That's a real big [Cm] thing.
You almost [Dm] _ feel like
you're on some kind of track.
You know, and it's all working together.
That's a big breakthrough.
And it's also when you're learning it, you kind of get, you fall off of it and you can
literally feel yourself losing that groove.
Right.
So you know when you're on the groove
and that's a big breakthrough.
Other thing I would say is huge is when you're dealing
in open tunings, it's important to learn the chord shapes more than [C] just [D] the one, four,
five that way.
It's really important to learn some open chord shapes and they're there.
You just have to learn them and it's not that they're any harder or anything [N] else.
You know,
they're just different chord shapes and they're really valuable and they make you sound ten
times better when you have a couple choices.
Right, right.
Okay, yeah, why don't you play
a bit.
I mean, you know, don't, please by all means don't limit yourself to the lesson
[G] concept.
Well, let me show you one, [A] four, five, what I would think is just a real good
basic thing to [D] know.
On our one, [Bb] like I just showed you right there, here's an also a one.
_ Starting on the fifth fret, sixth and seventh.
Okay, that's a great one.
[G] Do that same bass?
[Bb] Absolutely.
It's even better because it's more of a full chord. _
[G] Any note you hit except
for the [Bb] thickest thing is involved. _ _
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_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [Em] So for technique, it's kind of good to go ahead and
dampen this if you want with your thumb [G] and then you can really get loose with your right
hand and not have to worry about hitting a foul note because there isn't one.
See, that's
a great shape.
[G] So that's a great one chord.
And then [Am] when you're ready to go to your five,
[C]
you know that one, [E] okay, on the fifth fret.
However, this here, a regular C shape [Cm]
is also
going [C] to function as your five chord and that's a really fun one.
But even a different
one [G] is to go from [Gm] our one to our F shape up here on the [E] eighth fret.
So we got barring
these [Gm] two and then just [C] placing these two here.
So it's literally like our F shape in
standard tuning slid up to the eighth fret and that's a killer [E] four chord.
_ And it really
allows you to get _ _ lots of [B] different tonal qualities, you know, as opposed to just [C] this.
[G] That's great.
First verse you want to do this, [E] second verse you do this.
And then it doubles
your vocabulary just by that.
Okay, so that being true here, here's our five chord, or
excuse me, our four chord.
Well, if you slide it up two frets, [D] it's your five chord.
Okay,
so that's two for one there. _
_ [E] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [A] Now that is a slight difference because you're not actually
barring [Dm] there.
And in this shape, you [C] are barring.
_ _ _ So there's your [B] one, four, five in
a couple of different shapes that are really handy and you can get different grooves going.
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_ _ _ [G] _ Yeah, man.
Thanks for [Gm] hanging out.
You guys can also check out Ben's stuff by just checking
that link out below.
Please do, guys.
Thanks so much.
Appreciate it, Marty.
Cool, man. _ _ _ _ _ _