Chords for Intro To Harmony for Fingerstyle Guitar

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_ _ _ _ How you doing Adam Rafferty here with a little guitar lesson _ _
_ I'm gonna try to give you some [N] inspiration _ to check out voice leading and harmony today _ _ _ _
_ If you learned guitar the way I learned guitar you probably or if you're learning guitar _
The way that I learned was I started with chord [C] shapes.
So I knew _ I knew C [G] and I knew _ _ _
[E] G and _ D
[A] D7 a minor
[E] _ _ That's kind of a normal way to learn guitar _ [F] and I started by playing Beatles songs
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Using those chord shapes _ and what's great about those chord shapes is they can get you up and running _
Really quickly and you can enjoy playing music right away
_ the _ downside of learning those chord shapes is it's very hard to break through to the next level of
_ _ Understanding harmony, which is only going to make playing more satisfying and more beautiful
So I'm going to show you a little a little thing that you can pay attention to to start [F] orienting _
Your brain and ears and eyes [F#] towards that will hopefully open some new doors for you playing [A] wise so _ _
_ Let's play an a [E] chord now.
I'm playing this
[A] _ _ With my second third and fourth finger _ and I'm wiggling the neck because my strings are old and a little bit out of tune _
Now what I'd like you to do is just take the top three strings _ _ of _ _ that
We're only going to work for now with the top three strings and [F#] let's even make it better for illustrative purposes
Let's do the top down [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ and the reason that I want you to start seeing it from the top down is to break out
of this chord shape
Emanating from a bottom note up idea _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Okay _
Now if I said let's [E] move to a D chord you probably would [D] play _ and _ the good news is that that is totally correct
Harmonic motion and I'm going [A] to talk a little bit about
_ _ What's going on instead of seeing it like grips?
_ [G#] Let's try to see that as three [G] singers.
Imagine you have three backup singers
_ In your band in your [E] imaginary band and one is singing this
[C#m] _ _
The next one is [A] singing and the third one singing that one and you want them to [E] move to a D harmony
_ _ this singer _ _
_ _ _ Would move to there _ [C#] _ this singer
[D] _ would move to the [E] here and
_ [A] this singer
_ Would stay on that note going to the D chord and then stay on that note going back to the a chord
[F#] So now if we could see these [F#m] top three strings as three [D] voices
_ Rather than a grip, of course, you have to use a grip [F] to play it
_ _ but let's try to see them as voices and the playing from the [G#] top down will sort [A] of _ _ _ _ _
Enable you to see that now E goes up to F sharp
[G#] this C [D] sharp goes to D in _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
the key of a
_ If we were to assign numbers, that would be a one [F#] chord a four chord and a one [G] chord
If you don't [C#m] understand why don't worry about that.
We're just gonna call it that _ _ _
[A] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ the funny [E] thing is _ _ _
sometimes I've when I've done lessons with people I say play a C [C] chord a
_ _ Triad and I get them to play this triad
I start them there and I say now [Em] move that to an F chord [F#m] and you know what most [F] guitar students do _
And I did this also when my harmony teacher busted me on it.
I just went oh, no problem
I'm a smart guy.
I can I see that C is [E] the bottom note and
_ [Dm] Well, if that's the guess what that [Gm] just broke all the rules of [C] harmony
_ _ [F] _ [E] It it sounds crazy that it did because [G] it makes logical [F#] sense, but [C#] seeing them as voices
I [E] didn't move in the most efficient way [C] and this [F] in a choir or
[C] _
_ _ string setting if that was thought of as three voices that would sound _ bad actually because _ _ _
Those intervals don't sound so nice
[G] _ _
It's called parallel [C#] fifths
[A] Anyway, maybe I'm getting too far off the deep end what I want you to do _ _ _
_ [C] The point I wanted to make was _ _
[Am] It's rare that [F] people would do [C] this
But _ of [A] course when you're in your _ [D] open chord position you [A] see that right away _ _
_ _ Okay, that's just an example of how bar chords and shapes can [D#] lead you into
_ voice [E] leading trouble
So let's take it a step further
[A] _ _ _
_ I'd like to go to what's called a five chord and we're gonna [E] play the top three notes _ of an E chord
But just the top three notes and [A] _ _ then we're gonna bring it back.
So the chord progression is _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ Okay when we moved from the a _ [E] triad to the e triad e stayed [A] it's called the common tone
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _
C sharp came down to be a came down to G sharp
_ What you can practice is just one four one five one in the following manner _ [A] _
and just look at [F#m] it
_ [D] _ _
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_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
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Okay, and then if you'd like with your [N] thumb you can just add the bass string that would correspond
But you're only allowed to play four notes
These top three notes as a choir and a bass note [A] _ _ _ _
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[A] _ _ _ and what would be extra helpful is to sing each one
[D] _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _
_ [A] And [C#m] then _ _ _
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Sorry for the attitude [A] singing
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_ [C#m] _ _ [A] And then _ _
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_ _ _ [N] What you're going to be doing?
by experiencing that _ _
Some _ [G] new connections are going to be made in your mind in your ears and in your eyes
And you're gonna see the guitar in a new way.
You're gonna start looking for voices [A] rather than grips as a result
_ Your music [F] will probably in a few [E] weeks _ _
Months [F#] start to be more satisfying and more beautiful because a lot of beautiful music
Comes out of [F] what's called voice leading, _ so I hope you've enjoyed this lesson [E] and _
Thanks for listening.
God bless _ _
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