Chords for Open G Tuning Lesson - Chords

_ _ _ Hey folks, I got another lesson for you here today.
The last lesson I did was a slide guitar thing and I was tuned to open A
_ _ So today I thought I'd do kind of a corresponding thing you can use [Gb] ideas from both of these lessons together in
One piece of music kind of a 12 bar blues or whatever
_ So I'm tuned to open G today.
So it's the same as open a just a whole step lower
So my tuning from low to [Em] high is D G D [Gbm] G B D _
Sounds like [G] this
It's a G major chord.
That's called open G
[Gb] And so what I'm going to show you are a few chord shapes that I use in this tuning when I'm playing a blues _
And the first chord is just what I just did the [G] open strings.
Normally when I'm playing that G chord
I'm not playing the sixth string
Because my root note is on the fifth string G's the root note.
So there's the first chord
You can use those open strings
_ The next chord shape I'm going to use
Is a g7 chord?
Right here at the third and fourth [Gb] fret so my first fingers bar in the first two strings
At the third fret and [F] my middle fingers on the [G] third string fourth fret
So there's a g7 chord then I got another g7 chord two frets higher
first fingers on the fifth string first
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First string fifth fret
Second fingers on the second string sixth fret and my third [Bb] fingers on the third [Gb] string [Gm] seventh fret
Still play in those open fifth and fourth strings
it's another g7 _ and
Then if we go up two [G] frets eight nine and ten I
got another another _ g7
_ _ So you can see my third fingers on the third string tenth [Gm] fret my first fingers on the
second string eighth fret and [Gb] my middle [F] fingers on the first [G] string ninth fret and
Then the last chord is a twelfth fret first three strings.
It's not a g7.
It's just G major
_ So we got a bunch of G chords we can use _ _ _ _
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_ So I'll just kind of mess around with those for a minute kind [F] of
Just staying on that G idea, but using those chord shapes so you can see how I might use them in a musical [G] situation
_ [Bb] So [G] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Gb] _ [Gm] _ _ [G] _ _ there's some ideas you can see I was using all those chord shapes on the top strings _
_ And and the main thing I'm doing there's a half step approach from one fret below.
So if you take any of those chords
you move from one fret [Em] down [G] and
[D] then move [Em] into [G] the
Correct fret that's always a good sound
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_ _ [Gb] _ [G] _ _ _ Right so anytime you're on the one chord in a blues you can use any of those ideas the next chord
[Gb] And a blues after we have four measures of the one chord [G] we go to the [C] four chord
_ So you can borrow the fifth fret
C major chord and the key of G our fourth chord is C
_ So that's when I use a lot if we want to [Gb] make it a c7 we can [Cm] add our fourth [C] finger
_ three frets higher
_ _ _ _ _ And then there's another C major chord down here _ _ _ _ _
It's kind of an inversion
_ The root notes on the second string the lowest note.
I'm playing is [G] the open fifth string
Which is G or you can use your [Em] thumb for the third there [C] on E
So there's a C chord [G] if you use your pinky
It's kind of a [C] handful, but if you use your pinky on the third string third fret
Then _ it's a C7 chord
So there's a few C chords C major
_ C7 C major _ _ _
_ C7 and
Then we can take this chord shape and move it two frets higher the last chord in [D] our blues
_ Is a D chord _
D major D 7 and then there's a D _
It's a D chord right there
All _ these chords I'll have tabbed out _
On the website [E] should be just below the video [D] you're watching _
_ _ _ _ So there's a bunch of chord shapes for you, and what I'm going to do [Db] is play through a 12 bar blues _
And I'm going to use a lot of those [G] shapes so you can see how I use those shapes in a 12 bar blues in
Open G tuning _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ [G] _ _ _ [G] _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ [Bb] _ [G] _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [C] So _ _ _ [G] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ [G] _ _ [Bb] _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Bm] _ [C] _
_ _ [Bb] _ [G] _ [F] _ [Em] _ [Eb] _ [G] _
[D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Bb] _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _
_ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [Em] _
[Eb] _ [G] _ [Bb] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ there's some ideas for you _
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