Chords for Lead Guitar Lesson - use chord shapes to find lead lines

Hey everybody welcome to worship tutorials calm my name is Bradford today
We have a lesson that I think everybody will find very useful breaking down some lead parts and some songs
I'm sure you've heard before and how they are a lot easier than you may think
using chord shapes
And they're yes, they're bar chords not everybody directly loves bar chords
But when you break them down like this it makes everything playing wise a lot easier
So I got MJT custom
Thin line T style guitar with some Porter pickups, and we got our agape 18 watt tribute head a Mesa cab clone
We're going right in through logic
Great sound in device
Especially if you don't have the ability to run your amp loud or if you just can't run an amp on stage period
This will make it so you can and then we have a plethora of wonderful effects some even tide
Right now.
I'm really using the time factor just for a nice dotted eighth
We'll be using the space for a nice plate setting
We got a little bit of compression on and I got these will sledge effects pedals
This is a what is called slim drive, and this is what is known as his veil
It's a 919 and an up boost and of course.
I'm using this awesome.
This one's mine Dan Burgess
Controller for aux switch for the time factor makes a lot easier tap and just cycle through presets
So we're gonna get into it.
I'm using
Right now.
I just have a little bit of delay and
This is just like a clean boost pushing the amp a little harder
But what I want to break down is the fact that simple chord shapes that you already know
I mean we've actually talked about this before using an F shape using a D shape
[F] You know it's an F [D] shape
Here's your D shape and how you can use those [B] shapes to create lead parts and play different chords and all that
So one of my favorite lead parts to play
And it really kind of shaped my thought on on playing lead parts is the pre-chorus part to the stand Hillsong the stand
What can I say?
What can I do and it's got this really tasteful lick underneath it
So I'm gonna kind of tap the tempo here together, right?
_ and what we have here is _
[D] your D shape
_ _ [E] E shape
_ F sharp [F#m] minor
[E] Back to the E, and [D] then it starts again to the D.
Okay now.
That's great.
That sounds awesome
But [G#m] we don't need all that you know with with pads covering underneath [D] it.
You know we have our own pads
You guys check those out.
That'd be a great tool underneath this as well
So what I do is I make to make it a little easier
as great sounding as that chord progression is
We don't need all that.
It's a little extra so what I do is I take
Just the B string and the D string and I use those two strings to create this [G] lead part
And that's exactly what you're gonna hear the recording and it's [F#m] very easy
Kind of slide in from the [Em] fifth fret on both fifth frets for the B string and the D string and you slide into the
7 [F#m] _
all right we know that part and we're gonna slide up two [G#m] frets
Same thing all right, so these are major [E] chords, and then you're gonna slide up into this
The minor chords [F#m] was like an a minor shape with the bar like this
So that's our F sharp minor
But we're gonna do is we're gonna keep just the the B string and the D string
That's gonna give us a minor chord minor a little not even a [G] triad just a minor chord because it's more than two notes
So we'll go from the [F#m] seventh fret
To the [G#m] ninth fret to [A] the eleventh in the tenth fret back [G#m] down
_ [F#m] Like that now [G#m] this this video isn't just about [G#] playing the stand the point is is if you use shapes like that
That's good for a little ambient licks in between transitions.
It's good for
Playing a quiet chorus playing anything quiet really and you can use that as long as you know what chord [F#m] is so right here
And the seventh fret [D] that's gonna be based off your D
So that's really great [G] and really simple and something you can add to your playing
To bring out some different lead parts and add just a nice little walk-up maybe
_ _ [A] _
To be a the a right there [F#] B minor a
[C#m] You know so you do stuff like that is really great
As a little something special it's really [D#] easy, and you don't have to worry about
necessarily you [E] know
[C#m] You
[B]
Know it's that's great a little blues lift riffs are awesome
But when you have a chance to kind of exactly like in the stand
[F#m] It's _ [G#m] _ _ _ [A] _ _
[G#m] _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ [G#m] great so another song that uses the same kind of idea is God's great dance floor Chris Tomlin song God's great [C#m] dance floor
And what we see in that song is a nice little riff.
That's played
It's very prominent
_ [D] _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ Very prominent everybody knows that you know that riff if you know the song [G] and it's actually very simple same idea
But with a little little different of a twist.
We'll cut it back a little bit on
Dirt here, but what I do is I take it goes from this actually it's an [A] a over C sharp
[D] To the D.
[F#] So what we're gonna.
Do is we're gonna take this C sharp [C#m] minor shape
And we're gonna use a top part of it [E] for the top ish [C#m] part
B string the G string so we'll be on the on the B string will be on the fifth fret on the G string will be
In the sixth fret and that's the [A] first part
We're gonna slide [D] up to the seventh fret
strings
[C#m] So
_ [D] _ _
_ Keeping that same shape the two [D#] stacked on the B [A] string and the G string.
We're gonna slide all the way up to the 14th fret
And then down [E] to the ninth fret
All right, so that's [A] your from the C sharp minor shape [D] to the D [A] to the a
[E] To the E and now you could do octaves
[D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] But when you do that that's exactly it octaves to the same note
So this gives us a little more color and kind of gives it it sticks out in the mix a little mix a little [C#] more
I mean your bass and your keys are gonna cover that little part anyways
So why don't you do [Bm] something that sticks out a little bit [A] kind of and it's fun
[D] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ [E] _
_ _ So using stuff like that is gonna give you [A] between this [F#m] shape for the sand and
_ _ [G#m] _ [B] Then using this shape for like God's great dance floor
_ [A] _ _ You use those shapes like that and you'll be surprised how many songs you'll probably be able to pick out lead parts as you've heard
Before and you're curious as to what that voicing is or [D#] maybe it seems like an awkward shape to you the way you figured it out
But in all reality when you look at music you have seven notes in a scale and sometimes there's mate
Borrowed chords and borrowed notes and accidentals and all that
But if you just look at it as fact that you got seven notes in a scale
You look at the fact that each song you do there's seven possibilities and then you can take that and break it down
I realize it's not quite as complicated as it may seem
But when we look at the fact that we can use chord shapes lead parts look at the chord shape
for the core that you're supposed to be on in that part of the song and
Figure out the fact that there's probably that lead part sitting in that chord
Somewhere which obviously would have to be in order to work
So give that a shot mess around with some shapes like that
Maybe for new songs you're working on or maybe to add a new dynamic to a song of song that you've done thousands of times
And you want to try something different or maybe this will help you figure out
God's great dance for or the stand or any other number of songs that may have something similar to this
So thanks for checking us out today.
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