Chords for Guitar Harmony Lesson - Cool Move on an A Chord

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_ _ Hi, how you doing Adam Rafferty here with a [N] little guitar lesson for you _ _
_ _ I've got something that quite often when I'm just noodling on the guitar
looking for a little bit of inspiration I
tend to
[G] reach for this sort of [F#] cool little thing that I can do with a [G] chord and I find that song ideas and
_ Arrangement ideas spring out of this
So I'm going to show you what it is and maybe you can use it in your own playing get some inspiration
Get some song [G#] ideas or add this to an arrangement in a clever and beautiful way _
Let's [E] start with a two note.
Let's start with an a chord.
[A] I play this I _ _
Play this with my second third and fourth finger.
My strings are kind of dead.
So I'm kind of wiggling the neck in hopes of
_ Covering up how out of tune the strings
The state of the strings is right now straight of the strings are is _
anyhow, so now let's lift the pinky off [E] let's just
_ _ Listen to the sound of that a chord.
Now what I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna take this note of the a chord.
[A] This is the a that's the root
I'm gonna take this note, which is called the fifth of the chord and I'm gonna kind of leave everything in the [F] chord
But I'm gonna move that note up a fret [F#] and then I'm gonna move it up another fret [F] and then maybe back down
So I'm gonna leave the [G#] chord and just move one of the voices up
[E] It's kind of what you hear with James Bond when you hear
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That it's the same idea, but [A] we're gonna listen to it against different chords.
[A] So _ _ _
[E] _ _ I'm gonna
Change this [A] chord shape.
I'm gonna grab [F] that with my second finger
[B] But and _ [A] _ _ [F#] _
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then [Em] if you can keep track of that you can start
[G#] _ messing with other [A] melody notes _
[E] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _
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[A] _ _ whoops _
Sorry
[Em] so you see [A] it starts to just
_ Bubble up some kind of cool and inspiring sounds _
if I do it within a
Major seven chord that's a chord where instead of all the notes in the second fret
I know it's a jazzy sounding name.
Don't let that alarm you and
_ Now let's move
[F] _ _ [A] ooh _
Dissonant _ _ _ [C#] _ _
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_ _ _ some of the sounds are going to be really usable
Others [N] might be not your cup of tea.
That's okay.
That's for each one of us to decide
_ Let's check it out on a C [C] chord
_ the fifth would be the open G string and
_ What if we did something? _
_ See and then we lift off
[E] _
_ _ _ _ That's a [C] C major seven
[E] _ [C] with that
_ Then let's move it up.
[Am] I'm _
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[Am] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ [Em] _ Kind of [D] neat.
Okay
Let's look at it on a D chord.
That would be the fifth _ _ _
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[G] _ _ [E] _ _ It [D] can be especially effective if that little [Em] moving voice is buried within some thumb picking
It doesn't [D] have to be a pretty ballad.
It can be
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[Gm] _ _ [A] _ _ [Gm] _
Kind of sounds like dear prudence from the Beatles _
[Em] _ Would this work on [G] a G chord I don't think I've ever tried it _ [G] _ _
_ [D] doing that on the D string _
[E] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ Same as the same idea as the C chord [E] on an E chord that [E] might be
_ _ [C#m] _ _ [B] _
[E] so _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ pretty cool and the important thing is you can also do this on minor chords [Em] and _ _ _ _
_ _ an [Am] a minor that would be
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so
As you see you can take regular [N] old chords that you would normally use
And you can take a chord that you already play
Look for the note that's called the fifth.
It's five letters away _
Well, that's a whole other lesson in a can of worms, but just copy some of the things that I did here on the lesson
You might find some inspiration
You might find that you on a spot in a song [G#] that you already play.
Maybe [F#] you can snook that in and
Get some interesting harmonic action
Who knows maybe [F] a new piece will burst out of your playing and you'll get some inspiration
So anyhow, hope you've enjoyed this.
Thanks for listening and [G] God bless
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