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Lesson 3

You will learn

Recommended time for completion: 2-3 weeks

Tune your guitar

I do encourage you to tune your guitar before you continue - otherwise it will sound horrible, and people will not want to listen to your beautiful music...

Tune your guitar by comparing notes with your computers MIDI-bank: click here!

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Warm up!

Warm up those guitar fingers as I demonstrated in the 2nd lesson.

 

Arpegio

Right, let's introduce a new technique in our playing - arpegios!

An arpegio is essentially a specific scale consisting of the notes that make up a chord, i. e. an A major chord is composed of the notes A, E and C#, therefore if we would like to play an arpegio in A Major we would use these very same notes!

Luckily, it's easier than it might sound. You actually don't need to worry about the theory at this moment so much, the important thing is to learn the chords and the different ways in which to play them - and playing them as arpegios is just one of the ways=).

Basically all you need to do to pull off an arpegio is grabbing a chord and playing the individual strings in any order. Of course if you want to mimic a specific arpegio from a certain song you need to play the notes in the same variation and order as the song (good song examples of songs with arpegios are "Sweet Home Alabama", "House of the rising sun", "Stairway to heaven", "Nothing else matters" etc...)

The variation of playing patterns in arpegios are limited only to your imagination - experiment as much as you can! It's the best way to learn:)

Here are three easy arpegio patterns of the chords G, C, and D.

And remember - these are only examples - it is not THE way to play an arpegio - such a thing does not exist.

I demonstrate in the video how you play the following:

 

G

e---------------3------------------3--------------
B------------3-----3------------3-----3-----------
G---------0-----------0------0-----------0--------
D-------------------------------------------------
A -----------------------2------------------------
E-----3---------------------------------------3---

C

e--------------0------------------0-------------
B-----------1-----1------------1-----1----------
G--------0-----------0-----0-----------0--------
D-----------------------2-----------------------
A ---3-------------------------------------3----
E-----------------------------------------------

D

e------------------2-------------------2---------
B-------------3-------3------------3------3------
G---------2--------------2-----2-------------2---
D-----0---------------------0--------------------
A ---------------------(-or 0)-------------------
E------------------------------------------------

 

New chords

Dm

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Am

x02210

 

 

 

 

 

 

Em

022000
can be fretted in two ways

 

 

 

 

 

F (simplified version)

1332xx
should be gripped in bar chord form, but you will learn this later. For now - just learn this shape

 

 

 

 

Different ways of playing with your right hand

"How am I supposed to strum this thing?" - Pretty common question from beginners, it was a question of my own when I started playing.

Unfortunately (or rather, fortunately!) there is no specific, ultimate, correct way of either strumming or picking a guitar! Why? Because music is not a mathematical equation with one correct answer, there are an unlimited amount of correct answers! If music would be like maths, you would not be reading this, because I HATE maths:).

There are however some easy techniques/ways of of playing that is usually taught to beginners, like playing a simple 4/4 tempo, 8/4 or variations of these. I will show you some of these in the video to get you started.

With all of these words said, I would like to underline the fact that if you for instance are learning a specific song, then you should try to learn to play it like the writer of the song! Of course you can always make variations, but if you play with a strumming pattern that is too different from the original, then nobody will know what song you are playing.

But, then again, this rule is often broken, and for the better in most cases:) (for instance the Unplugged version of Eric Clapton - Layla hardly sounds like the original recording, but it is so much better, according to me).

Now, if you please, grab a guitar and look at the video in which I summarize a few techniques!

Sweet home alabama, again

Now we are going to apply the techniques that I demonstrated in the video above so that you can make "Sweet home Alabama" sound a little bit cooler:). No tabs, just listen to me and mimic:). The chords and sounds for the song are found in lesson 2

 

 

 

 

 

Arpegio for Sweet Home Alabama

After many requests I have decided to post the arpegio to Sweet home Alabama. But unfortunately you will have to learn this without video demonstration. You can always return to this later when your skills have improved!

This arpegio is repeated several times throughout the song:

E||----------------------------|--------3---------------------|----------------------------|
B||--------3----3-------3----3-|--------3---------------------|--------3----3-------3----3-|
G||----------2------------0----|--------------------------2-0-|----------2------------0----|
D||--0--0----------------------|------------------0-2-0-------|--0--0----------------------|
A||---------------3--3---------|--------------2-3-------3-----|---------------3--3---------|
E||----------------------------|--3--3------------------------|----------------------------|

--------3---------------------|
--------3---------------------|
--------0-----2-0-0-4-0-0-4b--|
------------------------------|
------------------------------|
--3--3------------------------|

MIDI:
slow | intermediate | normal

 

No woman no cry

Allright, now to learn a song written by the legendary Bob Marley.

The song has roughly the same chords throughout, although the chorus has a small twist.

The C/B chord, that you have not learnt yet, looks like this:

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Chorus
C ---C/B---- Am--- F
No woman no cry
C--- F ----C ------G
No woman no cry
C ---C/B---- Am--- F
No woman no cry
C--- F ----C ------G
No woman no cry

Verse
Say, Say,
C----- C/B------------- Am----------- F
Say I remember when we used to sit
C----- C/B------------- Am----------- F
In a government yard in Trenchtown
C----- C/B------- Am----- F
Observing the hypocrites
C----------- C/B------------------ Am----------------- F
As they would mingle with the good people we meet
C----- C/B---- Am----- F
Good friends we have
C----- C/B------- Am----- F
Oh, good friends we have lost
C-- C/B----- Am----- F
Along the way
C----------- C/B---------------- Am--------- F
In this great future, You can't forget your past
C-- C/B----- Am----- F
So dry your tears, I say

Chorus
C ---C/B---- Am--- F
No woman no cry
C--- F ----C ------G
No woman no cry
C ---C/B---- Am--- F
No woman no cry
C--- F ----C ------G
No woman no cry

Verse
C C/B Am F and so on
Said I remember when we use to sit
In the government yard in Trenchtown
And then Georgie would make the fire lights
while the log wood burnin through the night
Then we would cook cornmeal porridge
Of which I'll share with you
My feet is my only carriage
And so I've got to push on through,
Oh, while I'm gone

Bridge
same chords as in chorus but played differently
Everything 's gonna be all right
Everything 's gonna be all right

Chorus
C C/B Am F and so on.
No woman no cry
No woman no cry

Outro
Woman and sister
Don't shed no tears
No woman no cry

Source: LetsSingIt

I demonstate in the video how you play the song, as well as I show how to make it a little more interesting.

Tabulature for the little extra notes are: (watch video)

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---0--2--0-----
-3-------------

 

 

 

 

Allright

That's all for this lesson, before you move on to the next...