Chords for Cool Guitar Licks - Open Flatpicking Riffs (Key of G)

[G] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [Bm] _ [Am] _ [B] _ _ [D] _ _ _
[C] _ [Em] _ [D] _ [A] _ [G] _ _ _
Yee-haw!
[B] _ Alright!
Hey, it's Colin Daniel from RiffNinja.com, here to get you started on
a little bit of flat picking there, you know.
To me, all music is the same.
_ It's the same
scales, it's the same chords.
I don't care whether it's country or western.
The only
two types of music I know.
Did I just say that?
Yeah, I did. _ _
_ Music's all the same, man.
Blues, jazz, fusion, metal, it all uses the same scales and the same notes.
We only have
twelve notes, okay?
[G] Today I'm going to _ give you a little insight on flat picking on the
guitar.
All a flat picking is, is usually they use open strings and they use a flat
pick.
They use one of these things, a pick, right?
[C] And [G] _
[D] I _ _ [Abm] really like Doc Watson for flat
picking.
He was a real influence on me.
He just passed away recently.
God rest his soul,
he was an awesome player.
He surely was one of the greatest bluegrass flat pickers of
them all.
_ _ _ He played right up until the time of his death.
I think he was almost ninety
when he passed away.
It's wonderful that he had such a long career. _
And his music will
live on in us.
I know it will live on in me and I know it will be for a lot of other people
too.
_ _ _ [G] _
So, [Em] with flat picking, you know, it's [D] always this, like, any [Em] _
[Bm] single note that you
play, any single note lines, [Em] any bass note [D] lines, _ are all [E] derived from a scale _ and [Em] _ _
[D] [G] it
has to have a relationship between the scale and the chords.
So that's what I'm going [Bb] to
talk to you about today, the relationship [F] between the chord and the scale.
[G] _ [C] Of [G] course,
I mean, how many times have you seen [C]
[D] G, C [C] and D?
[G] There's the 1, 4 and 5.
That's the
[C] three common [G] changes, the three main changes in G major.
[C] G, C [D] and D.
[G] _
_ Just like [C] that.
[G] _ And
this is kind of a little excerpt taken from Lovin' in My Baby's Arms, [D] G, C and [G] D, you
know. _ _
[D] And [Em] [D] to _ [G] get your flat picking, you've got to use a [A] scale.
_ [Eb] Now you would think right
away that, and the soil will [G] teach you, it will teach you to play G major, which would
be, [A] _ [C] _ [E] _
[G] _ _ [Em] [G] you know, and I won't use that [A] scale, [G] G major.
I'll use parts of it.
_ _ [B] _ _ _
[G] _ _ I'll [Em] use E
[D] minor _ and _ [G] _ E pentatonic minor more than anything else.
_ _ _ _ [B] Because they're the full spectrum of
the key, E minor is relative to G major.
[G] So when I play out of the [A] E minor [D] scale, _ _
_ [Em] _ [D] _ [A] _ [G] _ _ _
I'll just feature the G notes.
And I know I've got a G here, you know, third fret, sixth
string.
I've got a G here. _
_ So you've got to know the scale.
[A] Like this is, this is not
something [E] for a beginner.
You've got to [G] know your E pentatonic minor scale.
You've got
to know your E diatonic minor scale.
And you've got to understand that G major [Em] is [G] contained
[B] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ [C] in that [D] E _ _
[Am] diatonic minor scale.
It's right in there.
It's all a note sign E.
[B] _
[G] _ _ _ And you
[A] can see how they work so well together.
The only difference is when I'm using [G] the E pentatonic
minor scale, I know that I have to end a phrase or end a note on my G, because that's going
[E] to resolve things.
If I end on an [G] E, it won't resolve, right?
_ And that's how I get the flat
picking going.
[D] So this is [Em] basically, _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ [Em] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ here's the full scale. _ _
_ _ _ _ I go all the way down to the
E, _ [A] _ [E] _ [G] but I got to end on the G, right?
So I had to go back up and hit the G.
_ _ [D] Now you [G] could
try this at home with your buddies jamming.
Get one of your buddies to strum away at [Am] G,
C and D [G] any way you can.
And [D] now you try this [Em] scale, this [D] E [G] pentatonic minor scale, which
[Em] is the easiest to start [D] with.
[A] _ [G] _ And whenever you want to finish [Em] a phrase or end a sentence,
_ [D] _ _ [G] _
end on a G note, _ and it'll resolve [Em] itself.
[Gb] Any of the [A] notes in the scale can [E] be played.
[G] _ [A] _ [G] _
_ [D] And that's how you start your flat picking.
[Em] _ [D] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ [G] _ _ _ _
Can you hear that?
Right in the scale, eh?
There's a secret for you.
Relative major, minor.
G major and E minor.
Great place to
start.
Okay, have fun picking.
Pick away.
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