Chords for Texas Swing Chord Progression Lesson
Tempo:
127.5 bpm
Chords used:
G
A
Am
B
E
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Welcome to our lesson on Texas swing rhythm playing.
When I was a kid, I used to go to these fiddle contests down in Texas.
All these old guys would be playing backup guitar for the fiddle players,
making all these strange chords, and I had no clue what they were doing.
But eventually, I caught on to some of them,
and that's what we're going to go over today.
It's a Texas swing-style chord progression in the key of G.
I'm going to play it through up to tempo first,
then [G] we'll slow it down and take it apart.
[A] [G]
[B] [Am] [G]
[A] [G] [A]
[Bm] [D] [Am]
[Am] [G] [Am]
[Em] [C] [G] [E]
[G] I was just laughing.
My little dog was walking through here
when I was playing that.
But anyway, let's take that apart here.
We'll start off, the basic strum pattern with the right hand on this
is that you'd pick the bass note of the chord first with a downstroke,
and then you're going to do another downstroke on the remaining strings of the chord.
And so we start off here with this G chord.
[E] Then we go to this G9 with a B [B] in the bass.
Hit that B note there.
[B]
And then we go to [C] a C chord.
Hit that C note in the bass.
Then [A] the C sharp for an A chord.
Then [G] back to G.
[B] Back to the B note [Dm] and the G9 chord.
And then up here to this [A] A7.
[E] And then to a [D] D9.
[F#] [Dm] Now if this feels awkward for you, just a sidebar here,
if it feels awkward going from this [B] G9 to this A7,
I have a lesson on the site about awkward chord changes,
and you may want to check that out.
It gives you some tricks about training your muscle memory to make those changes easy.
But anyway, we [A] got up here to this [Am]
[E] D9.
Then we start [G] again, G,
[B] B in the bass over that G9 chord.
[C] Then a C, [A] that A chord with a C sharp in the bass.
And then up to a [D] D7 with the A in the bass.
And then walk up that E string.
[F#] [G] Okay, that's the first half of the [Em] song.
The second half is, [G] we're going to do G to E [E] diminished,
[Am] to an A minor 7, to [Bm] a D7.
We're just going to go through that a [G] couple times.
[Am] Now on this [Em] G chord, you got that four chord cycle there,
that first chord, that G, you can make any voicing of G you want on that, obviously.
[G] This type of G, you could bar the first two strings on the third fret,
or you could make a bar chord, whatever [A] [G]
[C]
[E] [G] little lick you want to put in there.
[Em]
Anyway, that's basically it.
When I was a kid, I used to go to these fiddle contests down in Texas.
All these old guys would be playing backup guitar for the fiddle players,
making all these strange chords, and I had no clue what they were doing.
But eventually, I caught on to some of them,
and that's what we're going to go over today.
It's a Texas swing-style chord progression in the key of G.
I'm going to play it through up to tempo first,
then [G] we'll slow it down and take it apart.
[A] [G]
[B] [Am] [G]
[A] [G] [A]
[Bm] [D] [Am]
[Am] [G] [Am]
[Em] [C] [G] [E]
[G] I was just laughing.
My little dog was walking through here
when I was playing that.
But anyway, let's take that apart here.
We'll start off, the basic strum pattern with the right hand on this
is that you'd pick the bass note of the chord first with a downstroke,
and then you're going to do another downstroke on the remaining strings of the chord.
And so we start off here with this G chord.
[E] Then we go to this G9 with a B [B] in the bass.
Hit that B note there.
[B]
And then we go to [C] a C chord.
Hit that C note in the bass.
Then [A] the C sharp for an A chord.
Then [G] back to G.
[B] Back to the B note [Dm] and the G9 chord.
And then up here to this [A] A7.
[E] And then to a [D] D9.
[F#] [Dm] Now if this feels awkward for you, just a sidebar here,
if it feels awkward going from this [B] G9 to this A7,
I have a lesson on the site about awkward chord changes,
and you may want to check that out.
It gives you some tricks about training your muscle memory to make those changes easy.
But anyway, we [A] got up here to this [Am]
[E] D9.
Then we start [G] again, G,
[B] B in the bass over that G9 chord.
[C] Then a C, [A] that A chord with a C sharp in the bass.
And then up to a [D] D7 with the A in the bass.
And then walk up that E string.
[F#] [G] Okay, that's the first half of the [Em] song.
The second half is, [G] we're going to do G to E [E] diminished,
[Am] to an A minor 7, to [Bm] a D7.
We're just going to go through that a [G] couple times.
[Am] Now on this [Em] G chord, you got that four chord cycle there,
that first chord, that G, you can make any voicing of G you want on that, obviously.
[G] This type of G, you could bar the first two strings on the third fret,
or you could make a bar chord, whatever [A] [G]
[C]
[E] [G] little lick you want to put in there.
[Em]
Anyway, that's basically it.
Key:
G
A
Am
B
E
G
A
Am
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Welcome to our lesson on Texas swing rhythm playing.
When I was a kid, I used to go to these fiddle contests down in Texas.
All these old guys would be playing backup guitar for the fiddle players,
making all these strange chords, and I had no clue what they were doing.
But eventually, I caught on to some of them,
and that's what we're going to go over today.
It's a Texas swing-style chord progression in the key of G.
I'm going to play it through up to tempo first,
then [G] we'll slow it down and take it apart. _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [A] _ [G] _ _ _ [A] _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [Am] _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [Am] _ _
[Em] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [E] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ I was just laughing.
My little dog was walking through here
when I was playing that.
But anyway, let's take that apart here.
We'll start off, the basic strum pattern with the _ right hand on this
is that you'd pick the bass note of the chord first with a downstroke,
and then you're going to do another downstroke on the remaining strings of the chord.
And so we start off here with this G chord.
_ _ [E] Then we go to this _ G9 with a B [B] in the bass.
Hit that B note there.
_ [B] _
_ And then we go to [C] a C chord.
Hit that C note in the bass.
Then [A] the C sharp _ _ _ _ for an A chord.
_ Then [G] back to G.
_ [B] Back to the B note [Dm] and the G9 chord.
And then up here to this [A] A7.
_ _ [E] And then to a [D] D9.
[F#] _ _ [Dm] Now if this feels awkward for you, just a sidebar here,
if it feels awkward going from this _ [B] G9 to this A7,
I have a lesson on the site about awkward chord changes,
and you may want to check that out.
It gives you some tricks about training your muscle memory to make those changes easy.
But anyway, we [A] got up here to this [Am] _ _
_ [E] D9.
Then we start [G] again, G, _
[B] _ B in the bass over that G9 chord.
[C] Then a C, [A] that A chord with a C sharp in the bass.
And then up to a [D] D7 _ with the A in the bass.
And then walk up that E string.
[F#] _ _ [G] _ _ Okay, that's the first half of the [Em] song.
The second half is, _ [G] we're going to do G _ _ to E [E] diminished,
_ _ [Am] to an A minor 7, _ to [Bm] a D7.
_ We're just going to go through that a [G] couple times.
_ _ [Am] _ _ Now on this [Em] G chord, you got that four chord cycle there,
that first chord, that G, you can make any voicing of G you want on that, obviously.
[G] This type of G, you could bar the first two strings on the third fret,
or you could make a bar chord, whatever [A] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ little lick you want to put in there.
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ _
Anyway, that's basically it. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Welcome to our lesson on Texas swing rhythm playing.
When I was a kid, I used to go to these fiddle contests down in Texas.
All these old guys would be playing backup guitar for the fiddle players,
making all these strange chords, and I had no clue what they were doing.
But eventually, I caught on to some of them,
and that's what we're going to go over today.
It's a Texas swing-style chord progression in the key of G.
I'm going to play it through up to tempo first,
then [G] we'll slow it down and take it apart. _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [A] _ [G] _ _ _ [A] _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [Am] _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [Am] _ _
[Em] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [E] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ I was just laughing.
My little dog was walking through here
when I was playing that.
But anyway, let's take that apart here.
We'll start off, the basic strum pattern with the _ right hand on this
is that you'd pick the bass note of the chord first with a downstroke,
and then you're going to do another downstroke on the remaining strings of the chord.
And so we start off here with this G chord.
_ _ [E] Then we go to this _ G9 with a B [B] in the bass.
Hit that B note there.
_ [B] _
_ And then we go to [C] a C chord.
Hit that C note in the bass.
Then [A] the C sharp _ _ _ _ for an A chord.
_ Then [G] back to G.
_ [B] Back to the B note [Dm] and the G9 chord.
And then up here to this [A] A7.
_ _ [E] And then to a [D] D9.
[F#] _ _ [Dm] Now if this feels awkward for you, just a sidebar here,
if it feels awkward going from this _ [B] G9 to this A7,
I have a lesson on the site about awkward chord changes,
and you may want to check that out.
It gives you some tricks about training your muscle memory to make those changes easy.
But anyway, we [A] got up here to this [Am] _ _
_ [E] D9.
Then we start [G] again, G, _
[B] _ B in the bass over that G9 chord.
[C] Then a C, [A] that A chord with a C sharp in the bass.
And then up to a [D] D7 _ with the A in the bass.
And then walk up that E string.
[F#] _ _ [G] _ _ Okay, that's the first half of the [Em] song.
The second half is, _ [G] we're going to do G _ _ to E [E] diminished,
_ _ [Am] to an A minor 7, _ to [Bm] a D7.
_ We're just going to go through that a [G] couple times.
_ _ [Am] _ _ Now on this [Em] G chord, you got that four chord cycle there,
that first chord, that G, you can make any voicing of G you want on that, obviously.
[G] This type of G, you could bar the first two strings on the third fret,
or you could make a bar chord, whatever [A] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ little lick you want to put in there.
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ _
Anyway, that's basically it. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _