Chords for Guitar Lesson - Simple Ambient Lead Lines Using Stacked Delays

Hello, welcome to worshiptutorials.com. I'm Bradford.
Today I have another lesson for
you.
Kind of chord voicings, kind of lead parts.
I'll let you be the judge of where
that sits here and you'll kind of see what I mean here in a second.
But what I want to
talk about today is something I use, sure, in songs, but I think what I [Ab] really like to
use it for and what it really sounds great [B] for is transitions.
Your pastor is talking,
maybe you're just a lead guitarist and your worship pastor is talking.
Whatever the case
is there needs to be something going on underneath.
And maybe you have purchased our [G] pads, if
not, check those out.
But those pads, they're great, but sometimes you may want a little
bit extra.
So I'm going to teach you guys a couple things that I do to kind of carry
that moment without getting in the [Ab] way, without being too loud and distracting, but to give
something.
Now [N] besides using scales and replicating melodies of hymns or maybe the song you're
about to go into or just came out of, which is just a matter of picking those out with
your [Em] major scale.
I use these [Bb] two note voicings using two fingers [N] and it applies everywhere.
It's very easy.
If you know bar chords, this is going to make this a lot easier.
But what
I'm going to show you, and also kind of similar and reminiscent of our F shape lesson as well,
if you have not looked at that one either.
So what I do is I [Gm] put my first finger here
on the E string, that's a G.
[G] I'm going to put my second finger here on the G string,
that's actually a B.
[Em] So you can use that shape.
[A] If you look here, if you were to [G] make a bar
chord, you would lift off your third and [G] fourth finger and you actually got that.
However,
you don't need to bar [D] it, you can lift that up because we're just getting two notes.
Okay,
[G] now you can hammer on that G string just one fret up.
_ It kind of makes it [Gb] suspended in
a way [Eb] depending on where you're at.
No, [Gm] you're not going to want to do that on your four
chord.
It does not sound good.
The [Cm] key of G, we're using the [C] G, _ _ [Gb] _
[B] C, [D] D, _ and those are
the [Ab] major shapes.
Now the minor shape is really easy.
It's actually the same fret [A] on the E
string and on the G string.
So [Am] we would use the A minor, _ that's going to be on the fifth
[G] fret of the E string and the G string, or the E minor, which [Em] is on the 12th fret.
Or
actually you can use your E string and your G string open, which sounds great [G] for effect,
but just be careful because if you hit it too hard, [Ab] it's actually going to sound bad.
It's
going to sound like it's out of tune.
Before we go any [Bb] further, I'm going to show you the
gear we're using today.
We're using my [E] Fender Thinline Telecaster 72 reissue.
I have done
absolutely [N] nothing to it except replace the strings, clean it up a little bit here and there,
and the pickup selector black knob has been flicked off.
It just fell off.
Personally,
I think [Ab] it makes me look pretty hardcore.
Anyways, we're running this into a [Gb] not too
fancy of a cable because you don't need a fancy cable, into an HD [Em] 500X.
Really nice.
We got a little bit of verb on from [F] the amp modeling in here, a little bit of a compression
and [Gm] some dirt.
_ _ _ You're not going to hear because we're going to roll the volume knob back a little
bit [Ab] and I'm actually not going to be digging into it too [F] much.
So with that, I'm going to add [Gb] a
quarter note delay, which is going to follow exactly what I tap.
For this example, [E] I'm going
to make it a little faster so you can kind of hear them better.
So [G] here's that [C] one, _ [Gb] two, three,
[Bbm] four, right there.
Now our dotted eighth [N] delay shifts in between the beats is what it does.
So it's not going to be exactly what I tap, but it's going to fit.
So we got one, [Em] two, three,
four.
_ [N] Hear that?
Now stacked on top is going to give us this nice layering and galloping kind
of [G] sound. _ _
[N] So it's very subtle, but that's kind of the point.
We don't want it to be so pronounced
that it gets distracting.
So what I do is for a transition, we're in the key of G.
We got [G] some
pads going, so you can kind of hear.
_ Lovely.
So what you can do is swell.
_ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [Gm] Pretty simple there.
Or pick it, which is what I like to do a lot.
Keep it really subtle.
Now with that delay setting I
have, it's a little fast, so I'm going to tap it a little slower because when you're picking it out,
those delay notes are [G] going to stick out a little bit more because of the attack.
So _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ there _ _ _ you have
it.
This works really great for transitions.
This works [Gm] great for in the middle of a song.
I've used something similar to this kind of set up in Cornerstone during certain parts of that
song.
I've used it for any number of songs that require a [G] very much like a piano almost.
It can
fill in the space a piano normally would if you don't have one.
Or even following the piano on
top of it follows that quite nicely.
Very nice, tasteful thing to play.
And it's simple, super
easy.
It's two fingers.
It's just a matter of knowing that when you're sacking your fingers
out like this with a fret apart, that's the major combination there.
And then if [Gm] you actually are
going to put them on the same fret, that's a minor.
That's what that's going to end up being
used for.
So just know that, be aware of that, and as long as you know your root notes on your
E string, which I highly recommend, you will be good to go and you'll be able to find something
to play in a transition and it'll sound really good.
So hope that helps you guys.
Check out
the website for more [G] information and we'll see you guys soon.
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