Chords for Billy Gibbon's secret lazy power chords will change your life

Hi guys coming up Billy Gibbons sneaky lazy power chords that may change your life
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_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [G] Hi guys, welcome to the classic guitar rock channel
I'm Jeremy and I haven't done a lesson in a while and I wanted to get this lesson up today
I've seen ZZ Top several times one of my favorite bands Billy Gibbons one of my favorite guitar players
One of the things you'll notice about Billy Gibbons two things really he has a super light touch.
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_ And a very _ efficient
One could say lazy style.
He barely moves right either hand
He uses the minimum of motion in both his picking hand and his fretting hand.
I want to talk about his fretting hand _ mostly today _
But if you watch him play live you will be amazed at how little his hand moves
Yet he's able to play songs, right?
Part of that is his use of lazy chords
Lazy shapes.
He doesn't play the full shape, right?
_ and he's able to just
_ You know play all the chords he needs to in a song without moving very much, right?
And so I want to try a little exercise
_ Want you to pick a spot on the guitar neck and we'll just we'll just focus on power chords to begin with right power chords
fifth chords, right just the the first [D] and the fifth [G] of a
_ Chord if you want to add the octave
_ You _ _ can do that, right?
I'm assuming, you know your power chords
But let's let's stay right there at the third fret and let's just look at how many power chords we can play
Okay, we got the G
_ We got the C
[C] _ We can come up here based on the
fourth [F] string I got an F _ I
[Bb] Got this little guy
_ _ That's a B flat
_ _ That's not a very common shape, but [E] that's a power chord shape you could use so I've got those four chords that I could play
But here's where it gets interesting.
There's these little double stop shapes.
And what do I mean by double stops?
Well [G]
there where instead of playing the root with our index finger, right?
We just play for instance on a G _
Instead of playing that I could just play _ the fifth and fourth strings _ _ _ _ _ _
That's still a fifth chord [C] my roots on the [D] bottom.
Just a different inversion
[G] What I'm doing there
That's _ _ _ _ still a fifth chord
so now if I'm approaching it from that double stop standpoint where I'm playing the the the
Two upper notes of a fifth chord I can now add so there's a G chord there.
[F] Here's an F chord there.
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Can do it here, too
That would be a C [Bb] chord
B flat chord so just [Dm] there is four chords _ _
Double _ _ _ stops, right? _
_ _ _ Those are chords right sharp-dressed man good [C] example, so _ [Eb] _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ he's doing that
_ Those are fifth chords all right
_ But there's another little way that he spices up chords, so let's let's think of an F
Okay, I could play an F here fifth chord [F] power chord _ I
[C] Could play these two [F] notes
_ _ _ [C] _ Right or how about if I did this I'm playing these two chords
And I have this guy which is actually a C chord, but that's the fifth of an F chord right?
Then I get this little [F] inversion
_ _ _ See how it sounds a little different than this _ _ _ _ _ _
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See the difference _ and _
That right there a very common thing that you'll hear Billy do for instance, okay?
Let's look at
Give me all your loving
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_ _ [C] _ look _ _ how little my hands moving
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_ [F] _ _ _ _ [C] I'm playing three chords [F] there.
Okay.
There's an F. _ _
There's a B flat or yeah, let's see F _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [C] _ C
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[F] _ _ _ [C] _ _ I'm just barring right there see how I'm doing that I'm barring that if I play the third and fourth [Bb] strings
That gives me my B [E] flat
Okay, if I [C] put my pinky there at the fifth fret fourth string now
It's a C if I drop my pinky down to the fourth [F] string
That's [C] an F _ [F] See [C] _ _ _ that
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_ _ [C] _ _ Okay, so
_ _ _ Very economic he or economical right I mean he's playing that whole song basically the whole [G] verse
Without [F] moving he's moving the movement is [C] this
_ [F] Okay, _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _
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_ _ [C] _ _ _ so [F] Billy Gibbons uses a lot of those little double stop things
_ [Bb] _ That's _ _ [Eb] _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ just part of [Am] his playing right
_ He's _ _
_ [F] _ not the only one that does it right, but using just those little two note shapes
_ _ [G] Allows you to first of all play your chords a lot faster, but play them without even moving around the neck much, okay?
Now if you add your caged chords your knowledge of the cage system
_ That gives you even more chords to play in one spot, so let's go back to the third fret remember
I could play a G [F] power [C] chord C power [F] chord F [Bb] power chord
[Em] _
B flat power chord all in that fret what if I do this little [Eb] shape
I [Bb] call it the Rolling Stone shape or the ace freely shape
[Eb] All I'm doing is adding this
[G] _
That's _ [Gm] _ _ part of [Eb] this _ _ D sharp
_ caged chord based on the C pattern _
You don't know caged yet check out my lesson on the cage system, but that gives you another
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
That's a D sharp I can add
_ _ That's no longer a power chord because that's actually a major chord
_ But you know come back a fret [D] there's a D
_ [E] Come up a fret
There's an E right so I'm adding more and more chords just in the space of a couple frets
You can realistically play every chord in about a three you know
Three position range you can play every chord right so
My challenge for you is to learn all those patterns
To where you're not having to look all over the neck makes it a lot easier
especially if you sing
Right if you're able to comfortably reach those different grips [G] without sliding ten frets up and down the neck
Here's another thing
_ Open chord, so let me give you an example _ Billy Gibbons
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Okay, all I'm this is a G chord right G chord.
I'm playing the G with my
Ring finger on the third fret I'm dead [Gm] mean
the [G] fifth string _
So _ [C] _ _ it's like a [G] G over C
_ [C] All [G] I'm doing is putting down those strings from my C shape right _ and [C] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ then you go up to the C
_ This one's a little trickier, but the same thing.
I'm [E] not even playing the high E.
Not even worrying about [C] the high E
_ Now on the C now I'm gonna drop my middle finger to the F, and then put down my pinky right below my
_ C note so on the third [B] string or fourth string [F] third fret that gives me my F shape so see [C] how I do the C
_ [F] back _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [F] _ _
to the [G] G _ [C] but _ again [G] _ very [C] economic _ _
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_ [C] _ [F] You
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[G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] So [F] he does it even on on open type chords _
Billy Gibbons is worth studying guys not just for his lead stuff his lead stuffs phenomenal his tone is phenomenal
But the way he uses chords in just these little chunks
You add volume you add gain and these little two note chunks become
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_ [C] _ _ _ okay, so _ that's your homework assignment find a spot on your guitar
_ milk out as many chords as you can without moving your hand [N] and think about the lazy technique of
Billy Gibbons, I hope that helps.
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