Chords for Ragtime Blues Guitar 01 - Basic Chords
Tempo:
110.1 bpm
Chords used:
G
C
A
E
D
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Hey folks, my name is Cody and I want to teach you how to play some ragtime blues guitar
And the first thing that we need to do is learn the common chord forms that you're gonna about
95% of all ragtime blues songs are in the key of C
simply because with the chord progressions you're going to be using the
Chords from the key of C falling to your left hand really we make things a lot easier
So that's what I'm going to be teaching you is how to play some ragtime blues in the key of C
The first [C#] chord that you need to know [C] is your basic C chord
Of course, that's kind of obvious.
[Am] Then there's also your C7 which again
It's kind of obvious if you're new to the C7 just plant your [C] pinky on the third string third fret
On top of your regular C and you'll have a C7
There [N] are only two others that you really need to be familiar with
The first one you hear in Gary Davis is playing a lot
And to get that you need to borrow your top four strings on the fifth fret and plant your pinky right on the eighth fret
and you [C] get a
Really really beautiful C.
You hear [F] this like in a Cincinnati [C] flute rag he plays
[G] [Am]
So [G#] you've got that the other one is a little bit more difficult
Especially if you've never done it before and that is something that you're gonna need to learn as you get into some like blind Blake
or Buddy Moss style playing you play your regular C form
But you also need to have your sixth string [G] fretted at the third fret
So you've got the low [C] G and the low C at the same time
And and when you do that, you can get into some really really [G] great double [C] bass kind of
And there are a couple of different ways that you can do that I
Wrap my thumb around and catch that sixth string on the third fret
[N] So I've got both of them playing some people who have particularly gifted left hands
Can fret the lower two strings with the first knuckle of their of their ring finger?
I can't do that if you can best of luck to you because I think it's probably the fastest way to do that
If you're really having trouble with that
You can also plant your ring finger down on that sixth string and put your pinky on the fifth string now
I think that's probably gonna be a little bit slower and maybe a little bit debilitating
But if it's the best you can do then by all means have at it
Django Reinhardt had a
Flipper for a left hand and look at what he did
So if that's all you're able to do then by God do [G] it the best you [C] can
The [N] next chord that you're gonna need to know is just a really basic e7
[A] That's gonna be fifth [B] string [E] second fret [G] third string [E] first fret
Not [G] too much to learn there the next chord that you're gonna need to know
Is your a chord now most people?
Have been taught to play an a by planning their three fingers right here and and when you're strumming you get a [A] really beautiful
[E] That that first string is [G] open and it just rings really beautifully, but that's not particularly useful for
Finger picking because when you're finger picking your goal with your left hand is to have as many notes available
As you can at any given time and if all your fingers [A] are busy
Doing that you don't really have many notes available
[C] So the more common way to play an a chord in this style of playing is actually just like [E] the C
I just taught you bar the [A] top four strings on the second fret
I live in East Austin by the way, so you're gonna hear a lot of sirens in these videos
bar the top four strings on your second fret and
Plant your pinky down on the fifth
It's a really really pretty chord, and it leaves your fingers open to play a lot of other stuff
You're also gonna want to know an a7 and to do that just lift your pinky off of the fifth plant your middle finger right?
down on the [G] and when you [B] do that you [Am] just
[D] [A]
You
You've got a lot of notes available to you also a really common thing that you hear in in blues and subsequently the ragtime
Blues is to hammer or slide from your minor third to your major third and with a
Playing playing an a that way.
It's really easy to do because your minor third [C] is
[Am] second string first [C#] fret major third is
Second string second fret [Am] and so when you're playing an a like that you [A] can just
[F#] You can slide up to it really really beautifully and get these
[A] Kind of
[G] [A] things and [E] you can't really do that with this a so once you uh once you get used to [A] this a
[D] If you're a finger picker, you'll probably not go back to the old next chords
You're gonna want to know is your d7 and there are really only two of these that you need to know first is your basic D7
Right
There but again like with with the C
You're gonna want to wrap your thumb around and catch that [F#] f-sharp on the sixth string
So you got so you've got those two bass notes available to alternate with
[D] The
[N] other d7 that you need to be aware of
Take your [C] c7
[Am] And slide it up two [E] frets so that you're now at the [D] fifth fret
and you've got a d7 and
What you hear really commonly with that is players alternating their ring finger from the fifth [A] string to the sixth string
With the [F#m] alternating bass
So with your alternating bass out of that form [D] what you're gonna be playing is if [F#m] or six
[D] fifth [A] fourth sixth fourth
It's a [D] lot to say
But you get the idea and when you do that you just get really really beautiful
So
[N]
that's the other d7 that you need to be aware of
From there we would normally go for G
And G is probably gonna be about as different for you as the a chord was that we just learned most people play their G
With the middle finger on the sixth index finger on the fifth and ring [G] finger on the first
And we're actually gonna be playing the same chord just the fingerings a little bit different
what you need to do is plant your ring finger on the
Sixth your middle finger on the fifth and then your pinky on the first
And the reason for that is you're gonna be going from the G major to the g7 really quickly
And you're gonna be doing it a lot
so out of this form all you have to do is lift up your pinky and put your middle finger down and it's already there with the
Normal way of playing it.
I guess you You've got
All of your fingers and that just when you get going pretty fast
There's just no way that's gonna work
[Gm] Also [C] [E] [F]
[G] when you play it like that, you've got all those notes available, but you
You
[Fm] [G#] can move really really quickly [F#m] between the G major and the g7th and you're gonna need to do that
pretty quickly in this [G] style of music, so
[N] Those are actually all the chords that we need to play pretty basic rag and see
So get used to using those play around with them a little bit and once you're comfortable with those going to the next video
Thanks
And the first thing that we need to do is learn the common chord forms that you're gonna about
95% of all ragtime blues songs are in the key of C
simply because with the chord progressions you're going to be using the
Chords from the key of C falling to your left hand really we make things a lot easier
So that's what I'm going to be teaching you is how to play some ragtime blues in the key of C
The first [C#] chord that you need to know [C] is your basic C chord
Of course, that's kind of obvious.
[Am] Then there's also your C7 which again
It's kind of obvious if you're new to the C7 just plant your [C] pinky on the third string third fret
On top of your regular C and you'll have a C7
There [N] are only two others that you really need to be familiar with
The first one you hear in Gary Davis is playing a lot
And to get that you need to borrow your top four strings on the fifth fret and plant your pinky right on the eighth fret
and you [C] get a
Really really beautiful C.
You hear [F] this like in a Cincinnati [C] flute rag he plays
[G] [Am]
So [G#] you've got that the other one is a little bit more difficult
Especially if you've never done it before and that is something that you're gonna need to learn as you get into some like blind Blake
or Buddy Moss style playing you play your regular C form
But you also need to have your sixth string [G] fretted at the third fret
So you've got the low [C] G and the low C at the same time
And and when you do that, you can get into some really really [G] great double [C] bass kind of
And there are a couple of different ways that you can do that I
Wrap my thumb around and catch that sixth string on the third fret
[N] So I've got both of them playing some people who have particularly gifted left hands
Can fret the lower two strings with the first knuckle of their of their ring finger?
I can't do that if you can best of luck to you because I think it's probably the fastest way to do that
If you're really having trouble with that
You can also plant your ring finger down on that sixth string and put your pinky on the fifth string now
I think that's probably gonna be a little bit slower and maybe a little bit debilitating
But if it's the best you can do then by all means have at it
Django Reinhardt had a
Flipper for a left hand and look at what he did
So if that's all you're able to do then by God do [G] it the best you [C] can
The [N] next chord that you're gonna need to know is just a really basic e7
[A] That's gonna be fifth [B] string [E] second fret [G] third string [E] first fret
Not [G] too much to learn there the next chord that you're gonna need to know
Is your a chord now most people?
Have been taught to play an a by planning their three fingers right here and and when you're strumming you get a [A] really beautiful
[E] That that first string is [G] open and it just rings really beautifully, but that's not particularly useful for
Finger picking because when you're finger picking your goal with your left hand is to have as many notes available
As you can at any given time and if all your fingers [A] are busy
Doing that you don't really have many notes available
[C] So the more common way to play an a chord in this style of playing is actually just like [E] the C
I just taught you bar the [A] top four strings on the second fret
I live in East Austin by the way, so you're gonna hear a lot of sirens in these videos
bar the top four strings on your second fret and
Plant your pinky down on the fifth
It's a really really pretty chord, and it leaves your fingers open to play a lot of other stuff
You're also gonna want to know an a7 and to do that just lift your pinky off of the fifth plant your middle finger right?
down on the [G] and when you [B] do that you [Am] just
[D] [A]
You
You've got a lot of notes available to you also a really common thing that you hear in in blues and subsequently the ragtime
Blues is to hammer or slide from your minor third to your major third and with a
Playing playing an a that way.
It's really easy to do because your minor third [C] is
[Am] second string first [C#] fret major third is
Second string second fret [Am] and so when you're playing an a like that you [A] can just
[F#] You can slide up to it really really beautifully and get these
[A] Kind of
[G] [A] things and [E] you can't really do that with this a so once you uh once you get used to [A] this a
[D] If you're a finger picker, you'll probably not go back to the old next chords
You're gonna want to know is your d7 and there are really only two of these that you need to know first is your basic D7
Right
There but again like with with the C
You're gonna want to wrap your thumb around and catch that [F#] f-sharp on the sixth string
So you got so you've got those two bass notes available to alternate with
[D] The
[N] other d7 that you need to be aware of
Take your [C] c7
[Am] And slide it up two [E] frets so that you're now at the [D] fifth fret
and you've got a d7 and
What you hear really commonly with that is players alternating their ring finger from the fifth [A] string to the sixth string
With the [F#m] alternating bass
So with your alternating bass out of that form [D] what you're gonna be playing is if [F#m] or six
[D] fifth [A] fourth sixth fourth
It's a [D] lot to say
But you get the idea and when you do that you just get really really beautiful
So
[N]
that's the other d7 that you need to be aware of
From there we would normally go for G
And G is probably gonna be about as different for you as the a chord was that we just learned most people play their G
With the middle finger on the sixth index finger on the fifth and ring [G] finger on the first
And we're actually gonna be playing the same chord just the fingerings a little bit different
what you need to do is plant your ring finger on the
Sixth your middle finger on the fifth and then your pinky on the first
And the reason for that is you're gonna be going from the G major to the g7 really quickly
And you're gonna be doing it a lot
so out of this form all you have to do is lift up your pinky and put your middle finger down and it's already there with the
Normal way of playing it.
I guess you You've got
All of your fingers and that just when you get going pretty fast
There's just no way that's gonna work
[Gm] Also [C] [E] [F]
[G] when you play it like that, you've got all those notes available, but you
You
[Fm] [G#] can move really really quickly [F#m] between the G major and the g7th and you're gonna need to do that
pretty quickly in this [G] style of music, so
[N] Those are actually all the chords that we need to play pretty basic rag and see
So get used to using those play around with them a little bit and once you're comfortable with those going to the next video
Thanks
Key:
G
C
A
E
D
G
C
A
_ _ _ Hey folks, my name is Cody and I want to teach you how to play some ragtime blues guitar
And the first thing that we need to do is learn the common chord forms that you're gonna _ _ _ about
95% of all ragtime blues songs are in the key of C
simply because with the chord progressions you're going to be using the
Chords from the key of C falling to your left hand really we _ _ make things a lot easier
_ _ So that's what I'm going to be teaching you is how to play some ragtime blues in the key of C
The first [C#] chord that you need to know [C] is your basic C chord
Of course, that's kind of obvious.
[Am] Then there's also your C7 which again
It's kind of obvious if you're new to the C7 just plant your [C] pinky on the third string third fret
On top of your regular C and you'll have a C7
There [N] are only two others that you really need to be familiar with
The first one you hear in Gary Davis is playing a lot
And to get that you need to borrow your top four strings on the fifth fret and plant your pinky right on the eighth fret
and you [C] get a
Really really beautiful C.
You hear [F] this like in a Cincinnati [C] flute rag he plays
[G] _ _ [Am]
So _ _ _ [G#] you've got that the other one is a little bit more difficult
Especially if you've never done it before and that is something that you're gonna need to learn as you get into some like blind Blake
or Buddy Moss style playing you play your regular C form
But you also need to have your sixth string [G] fretted at the third fret
So you've got the low [C] G and the low C at the same time
And and when you do that, you can get into some really really [G] great double [C] bass kind of _ _ _ _ _
_ _ And there are a couple of different ways that you can do that I
Wrap my thumb around and catch that sixth string on the third fret
[N] So I've got both of them playing some people who have particularly gifted left hands
Can fret the lower two strings with the first knuckle of their of their ring finger?
I can't do that if you can best of luck to you because I think it's probably the fastest way to do that
If you're really having trouble with that
You can also plant your ring finger down on that sixth string and put your pinky on the fifth string now
I think that's probably gonna be a little bit slower and maybe a little bit debilitating
But if it's the best you can do then by all means have at it _
Django Reinhardt had a
Flipper for a left hand and look at what he did
So if that's all you're able to do then by God do [G] it the best you [C] can
_ The _ [N] next chord that you're gonna need to know is just a really basic e7
[A] That's gonna be fifth [B] string [E] second fret [G] third string [E] first fret
_ _ Not [G] too much to learn there the next chord that you're gonna need to know
Is your a chord now most people?
_ Have been taught to play an a by planning their three fingers right here and and when you're strumming you get a [A] really beautiful
_ _ [E] That that first string is [G] open and it just rings really beautifully, but that's not particularly useful for
Finger picking because when you're finger picking your goal with your left hand is to have as many notes available
_ As you can at any given time and if all your fingers [A] are busy _
Doing that you don't really have many notes available
[C] So the more common way to play an a chord in this style of playing is actually just like [E] the C
I just taught you bar the [A] top four strings on the second fret
I live in East Austin by the way, so you're gonna hear a lot of sirens in these videos
bar the top four strings on your second fret and
Plant your pinky down on the fifth
It's a really really pretty chord, and it leaves your fingers open to play a lot of other stuff
You're also gonna want to know an a7 and to do that just lift your pinky off of the fifth plant your middle finger right?
down on the _ _ _ _ [G] and when you [B] do that you [Am] just
[D] _ [A] _
_ You
You've got a lot of notes available to you also a really common thing that you hear in in blues and subsequently the ragtime
Blues is to hammer or slide from your minor third to your major third and with a
Playing playing an a that way.
It's really easy to do because your minor third [C] is
[Am] second string first [C#] fret major third is
Second string second fret [Am] and so when you're playing an a like that you [A] can just
[F#] You can slide up to it really really beautifully and get these
[A] Kind _ of _
[G] _ _ [A] _ _ things and [E] you can't really do that with this a so once you uh once you get used to [A] this a
_ [D] If you're a finger picker, you'll probably not go back to the old _ _ _ next chords
You're gonna want to know is your d7 and there are really only two of these that you need to know first is your basic D7
_ _ _ Right
There but again like with with the C
You're gonna want to wrap your thumb around and catch that [F#] f-sharp on the sixth string
So you got so you've got those two bass notes available to alternate with
[D] The _ _ _
_ _ _ [N] _ _ other d7 that you need to be aware of
Take your [C] c7 _
[Am] And slide it up two [E] frets so that you're now at the [D] fifth fret
and you've got a d7 and
What you hear really commonly with that is players alternating their ring finger from the fifth [A] string to the sixth string
With the [F#m] alternating bass
So with your alternating bass out of that form [D] what you're gonna be playing is if [F#m] or six
[D] fifth [A] fourth sixth fourth
It's a [D] lot to say
But you get the idea and when you do that you just get really really beautiful
_ _ _ _ _ So _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N]
that's the other d7 that you need to be aware of
From there we would normally go for G
And G is probably gonna be about as different for you as the a chord was that we just learned most people play their G
With the middle finger on the sixth index finger on the fifth and ring [G] finger on the first
_ And we're actually gonna be playing the same chord just the fingerings a little bit different
what you need to do is plant your ring finger on the
Sixth your middle finger on the fifth and then your pinky on the first
And the reason for that is you're gonna be going from the G major to the g7 really quickly
And you're gonna be doing it a lot
so out of this form all you have to do is lift up your pinky and put your middle finger down and it's already there with the
Normal way of playing it.
I guess you You've got _
All of your fingers and that just when you get going pretty fast
There's just no way that's gonna work
[Gm] Also [C] _ [E] _ [F] _
[G] _ _ when you play it like that, you've got all those notes available, but you
_ _ You _ _ _ _
[Fm] _ [G#] can move really really quickly [F#m] between the G major and the g7th and you're gonna need to do that
pretty quickly in this [G] style of music, so
[N] Those are actually all the chords that we need to play pretty basic rag and see
_ _ So get used to using those play around with them a little bit and once you're comfortable with those going to the next video
Thanks _ _ _ _ _
And the first thing that we need to do is learn the common chord forms that you're gonna _ _ _ about
95% of all ragtime blues songs are in the key of C
simply because with the chord progressions you're going to be using the
Chords from the key of C falling to your left hand really we _ _ make things a lot easier
_ _ So that's what I'm going to be teaching you is how to play some ragtime blues in the key of C
The first [C#] chord that you need to know [C] is your basic C chord
Of course, that's kind of obvious.
[Am] Then there's also your C7 which again
It's kind of obvious if you're new to the C7 just plant your [C] pinky on the third string third fret
On top of your regular C and you'll have a C7
There [N] are only two others that you really need to be familiar with
The first one you hear in Gary Davis is playing a lot
And to get that you need to borrow your top four strings on the fifth fret and plant your pinky right on the eighth fret
and you [C] get a
Really really beautiful C.
You hear [F] this like in a Cincinnati [C] flute rag he plays
[G] _ _ [Am]
So _ _ _ [G#] you've got that the other one is a little bit more difficult
Especially if you've never done it before and that is something that you're gonna need to learn as you get into some like blind Blake
or Buddy Moss style playing you play your regular C form
But you also need to have your sixth string [G] fretted at the third fret
So you've got the low [C] G and the low C at the same time
And and when you do that, you can get into some really really [G] great double [C] bass kind of _ _ _ _ _
_ _ And there are a couple of different ways that you can do that I
Wrap my thumb around and catch that sixth string on the third fret
[N] So I've got both of them playing some people who have particularly gifted left hands
Can fret the lower two strings with the first knuckle of their of their ring finger?
I can't do that if you can best of luck to you because I think it's probably the fastest way to do that
If you're really having trouble with that
You can also plant your ring finger down on that sixth string and put your pinky on the fifth string now
I think that's probably gonna be a little bit slower and maybe a little bit debilitating
But if it's the best you can do then by all means have at it _
Django Reinhardt had a
Flipper for a left hand and look at what he did
So if that's all you're able to do then by God do [G] it the best you [C] can
_ The _ [N] next chord that you're gonna need to know is just a really basic e7
[A] That's gonna be fifth [B] string [E] second fret [G] third string [E] first fret
_ _ Not [G] too much to learn there the next chord that you're gonna need to know
Is your a chord now most people?
_ Have been taught to play an a by planning their three fingers right here and and when you're strumming you get a [A] really beautiful
_ _ [E] That that first string is [G] open and it just rings really beautifully, but that's not particularly useful for
Finger picking because when you're finger picking your goal with your left hand is to have as many notes available
_ As you can at any given time and if all your fingers [A] are busy _
Doing that you don't really have many notes available
[C] So the more common way to play an a chord in this style of playing is actually just like [E] the C
I just taught you bar the [A] top four strings on the second fret
I live in East Austin by the way, so you're gonna hear a lot of sirens in these videos
bar the top four strings on your second fret and
Plant your pinky down on the fifth
It's a really really pretty chord, and it leaves your fingers open to play a lot of other stuff
You're also gonna want to know an a7 and to do that just lift your pinky off of the fifth plant your middle finger right?
down on the _ _ _ _ [G] and when you [B] do that you [Am] just
[D] _ [A] _
_ You
You've got a lot of notes available to you also a really common thing that you hear in in blues and subsequently the ragtime
Blues is to hammer or slide from your minor third to your major third and with a
Playing playing an a that way.
It's really easy to do because your minor third [C] is
[Am] second string first [C#] fret major third is
Second string second fret [Am] and so when you're playing an a like that you [A] can just
[F#] You can slide up to it really really beautifully and get these
[A] Kind _ of _
[G] _ _ [A] _ _ things and [E] you can't really do that with this a so once you uh once you get used to [A] this a
_ [D] If you're a finger picker, you'll probably not go back to the old _ _ _ next chords
You're gonna want to know is your d7 and there are really only two of these that you need to know first is your basic D7
_ _ _ Right
There but again like with with the C
You're gonna want to wrap your thumb around and catch that [F#] f-sharp on the sixth string
So you got so you've got those two bass notes available to alternate with
[D] The _ _ _
_ _ _ [N] _ _ other d7 that you need to be aware of
Take your [C] c7 _
[Am] And slide it up two [E] frets so that you're now at the [D] fifth fret
and you've got a d7 and
What you hear really commonly with that is players alternating their ring finger from the fifth [A] string to the sixth string
With the [F#m] alternating bass
So with your alternating bass out of that form [D] what you're gonna be playing is if [F#m] or six
[D] fifth [A] fourth sixth fourth
It's a [D] lot to say
But you get the idea and when you do that you just get really really beautiful
_ _ _ _ _ So _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N]
that's the other d7 that you need to be aware of
From there we would normally go for G
And G is probably gonna be about as different for you as the a chord was that we just learned most people play their G
With the middle finger on the sixth index finger on the fifth and ring [G] finger on the first
_ And we're actually gonna be playing the same chord just the fingerings a little bit different
what you need to do is plant your ring finger on the
Sixth your middle finger on the fifth and then your pinky on the first
And the reason for that is you're gonna be going from the G major to the g7 really quickly
And you're gonna be doing it a lot
so out of this form all you have to do is lift up your pinky and put your middle finger down and it's already there with the
Normal way of playing it.
I guess you You've got _
All of your fingers and that just when you get going pretty fast
There's just no way that's gonna work
[Gm] Also [C] _ [E] _ [F] _
[G] _ _ when you play it like that, you've got all those notes available, but you
_ _ You _ _ _ _
[Fm] _ [G#] can move really really quickly [F#m] between the G major and the g7th and you're gonna need to do that
pretty quickly in this [G] style of music, so
[N] Those are actually all the chords that we need to play pretty basic rag and see
_ _ So get used to using those play around with them a little bit and once you're comfortable with those going to the next video
Thanks _ _ _ _ _