Chords for How To Play Lofi Hip Hop Guitar (Chillhop, Jazzhop, all the hops) / Guitar Chord Ideas / solo tips

[D] _ _ _ [Bm] What's up everyone, this video is going to be how to [G] play guitar for lo-fi tracks, so
that's like chill hop, jazz hop, that sort of vibe.
[D] So it's going to be some common goatee
chord progressions that [E] I use, I'll go over how I play them, [D] some [G] variations and how I
solo on top of them, and then just some ideas on where you can find your own [D] inspiration
for lo-fi style chords.
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there as well.
So yeah, [G] _ let's get started.
[Gm] There's no real limit to what chords you can
[D] use in lo-fi hip hop, I've heard a lot of things from simple [Bm] major and minor triads
to more complex jazz [G] chords, _ _ however there's definitely a preference towards [Gbm]
a sort of
soul jazz style using minor 7 [Em] chords, minor 9 chords, and diminished chords, [Bm] that sort
of thing.
So yeah, I've got a [G] couple of goatee chord progressions that I've used a lot when
making tracks, and yeah that's that one.
Onto the next progression, this one's dead easy
to transpose anyway because it takes up quite a small section of the fret, it's a C sharp
minor 7, [Dbm] _ _ [Abm] to a G sharp minor [Gbm] 7, to an F sharp minor 7, _ _ _ and you can go back up again.
[Abm] _ _ _ _ _ [Dbm] _ _
_ _ [Abm] _ _ _ _ _ [Gbm] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ So
starting off with a C sharp minor 7, this chord starts with 4th fret on the A, [Dbm] _
6th on
the D, 4th on the G, 5th on the B, 4th on the E string.
And you can do a little hammer
on from the 4th to the 5th _ on the B string, [Bm] and also on the E string, _ _ this note [Dbm] here,
_ _ on the 7th fret, fits really nicely so you can sort of play _ [Abm] _ _ _ _
around with your little finger
on that one.
[G] _ Dead easy switch, it's down to the G sharp 7, so 4th fret on the [Ab] E string,
6th on the A, [Abm] and then _ 4th down to the bottom. _ _ _ _
[Gbm] And then for the F sharp minor 7, we're just
shifting that down a whole step to the 2nd fret, _ _ _ _ so then it's [Ebm] just [Gbm] 2 4 2 2 2 2.
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
[Abm] _ _ _ _ _ [Gbm] _ _ _
[B] Obviously
with this you [Eb] can just shift it anywhere, it's quite an easy [Abm] progression, so bring it
[A] down here, _ _ _ _ [Dbm] _ _ _
_ [Bm] sounds brighter. _ _ _ _ _
Brighter sound.
[E] One thing I like doing with a lo-fi guitar
as well, is if you record a loop, [N] and you just transpose it down in your music software,
it gives it a sort of darker, grittier tone, which sounds really nice. _
So that's that progression.
So this next chord progression is very much a jazz chord progression, it's called the
1 to 6, because it goes from the 1 chord to the 6th chord in the scale, and it's commonly
used in quite a lot of jazz tracks.
Quite a bright sounding chord progression, so it
sounds like [F] this. _ _
[Em] _ [G] _ _ [Am] _ [F] _ _ _ [Em] _
[G] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [E] _ [Bb] _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ Major 7, but different to the first [Db] way we played the major 7 chords,
this way is a different version, and it's actually good to mix between different voicings
of the chords as well when you're playing, just to keep the variation up.
So if you're
playing a major 7 down here, you can also play this _ voicing as well.
So this is going
to be 8th fret on the E string, _ moving the A [D] string, 9 on the D, [G] G, 9 again, and an 8. _ _
That's the C major 7.
_ [C] _ _ _ _
_ Moving to a [Gm] G major 9, so we're playing 10 on the A string, 8
_ on the D string, [Bb] 10 on the G, 10 on the B.
_ _ [F] _ _ [Bb] And from here, we go into a [C] C13, so we're
playing 8 on the low E, 8 on the D, 9 [Am] on the G, and 10 on the B.
So you're keeping your
little finger in the same [Bb] place.
[Am] And _ _ [Bb] _ [Am] with _ _
[C] this one, it helps if you play with the thumb
on the 8th string, if you can do that.
[Bb] _ _ [Am] You can still play [Bb] it barring it as well.
_ _ And
then we're going over to a F major 9 chord.
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ [B] So for that, we're starting [F] on the A string
with the 8th fret, _ 7th fret [Em] on the D string, 9 on the G, and 8 on the [Bbm] B.
[A] _ _
_ _ Next chord is a Bb9, and it's the same sort of shape, except for with your first figure,
you're barring.
So you're [Dm] playing _ 8, 7, 7, 8, rather than 8, [Em] 7, 9, 8.
[Bb] _ _ _ Like that.
_ _ [B] For the [D] top again, it's this. _
_ C major 7, [C] [Bb] G minor 9, [Am]
C13, [Ab] F [A] major 9, _ _ [Gm] and then Fb9.
[G] _ _ I think that's what the chord's called.
I might be wrong.
And then a similar chord progression to this is going _
[E] for_
_ [Ebm] _ _ _ _ [B] _
[Eb] _ _ _ [B] _ [Eb] _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ [Bbm] _
_ [E] So this next progression is using the sort of tail end of that previous one.
So this time we're going for a C sharp minor 9, [Ebm] F sharp 13, [B] _ B minor 9.
_ [E] _ _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ So this one we're soloing on the Ab minor pentatonic scale.
So if I just play some _ _ drums_
_ _ _ [Gb] _ [B] _
[Gb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Abm] _
_ [Ebm] Again, trying to take inspiration from jazz.
_ [B] _
_ _ I [Ebm] like Neosoul vibes, a variety of look.
_ _ _ [Abm] _ _ _ _ [Ebm] _
_ Yeah, [B] things like that.
_ _ [Db]
Now this is a famous sample from Lindecy, I think it's pronounced, on the track Soulful,
which is a huge chill-hop track if you haven't heard it.
_ Again, taking inspiration [C] from jazz.
_ So this chord progression is an Am7, _ _ _ _ [B] B7, b13, _ [G] to the E minor 9. _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[A] The way that I'm playing it there is the _ Am7 is 5th [C] fret, mute, 5th 5th 5th.
[Am] _ _ _
[B] _ And then 7th fret on the E string, [A] mute, 7th fret on the D string, [B] and then 8 8. _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [B] _
[E] And then just over to the [Bm] E minor 9 like we were doing before, [A] with the shape.
So it's mute on the E string, 7th fret on the A string, 5th fret on the [G] D string, 7 7 on the G B. _ _
[Em] _ [N] And you can sort of transpose that to try and make it your own.
So this was just a quick video on some of the key, the go-to chord progressions that I use.
If you want a bit more of a more in-depth video with some theory involved, let me know in the comments below.
And that's something I can look into doing next.
In terms of where to find your own chords, as I say, look for jazz progressions, look at the popular jazz progressions.
Maybe simplify them to your own taste.
Or you can look at things like Neosoul, so looking at say, what chord progressions D'Angelo uses.
You can look at similar chord progressions, or just general soul tracks, R&B, _ _ gospel.
They all sort of take roots from that sort