Chords for Otis Redding - Sitting on the Dock of The Bay - how to play - Acoustic Guitar Tutorial

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Hey, what's up you guys?
_ Marty Schwartz here, GuitarJams.com. _ _ _ _
Nice soulful, acoustic, _ _ _ _ grooving chord progression for you. _
_ As you saw there, I was just using one bar chord shape.
Great bar chord practice. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ I'm going to use an open _ _ E major chord.
Actually, no.
Here, let's do it this way.
We're going to do bar chords for the verse, and we're going to do open chords _ for the chorus.
But that doesn't mean you can _ mix and match any way you want.
So here's what we're going to do.
We're going to take a G major bar chord, _
[G] _ barred on the third [C] fret, _ and if your [Bm] finger was
like the capo, then the shape of my fingers would look like an [G] E major. _ _ _ _ _
Like that.
One and two and three and four and.
Stalled down strums.
_ [Ab] _ _ _ Slide it up to the seventh fret.
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[B] _ _ _ Then _ _ _ _ _ I'm going to slide it up a [C] half step.
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_ One and two and [B] three and [A] four and.
So let's [C] see. _
_ _ [B] _ _ [C] One and two and three [Bb] and [A] four and. _ _
_ _ [G] So _ _ _ _
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_ _ [C] like that with the [G] bar chords.
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_ _ _ _ So you could also, you don't [Eb] have to do that slide every [C] time.
You could just go _ eighth fret _ [A] to the fifth fret.
_ Just like that, [C] if you wanted.
Another thing, some of the nuance that I added on that time was _ _ _ just kind of relaxing my
left hand so we get kind of this, _ you know, they're not just ringing out [G] like.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ You know, _ _ [E] we're adding some _ flavor, some nuance. _
I do that by _ just kind [G] of.
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_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ And you can add a little bit of palm muting with your right hand too.
These are all just things that you can [N] experiment with. _ _
Now like palm muting and a little chucking.
I've had different teachers as I was learning guitar, you know, explain these things to me.
But what I found was that _ everyone's guitar _ journey _ _ _ _ is just like slow evolution.
You figure things out on your own.
So the more technique and different things you learn and pull from different places,
the more you can implement it into what's working for you.
But you know, in other words, it's not something that, you know, some of the finer nuances
aren't things you learn in one lesson.
They're things that you, you know, you learn out in the streets.
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Just like [G] that.
_ So now there's a chorus and we're going to do an open G chord. _
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_ _ _ _ _ [Am] So we went G to E major.
[G] One and two and three and [E] four and. _
Two and three and four and.
Just like that.
So let's check that out again.
So we have the G to the E and that happens.
_ _ So we have the G to the E and that [G] happens two times as the chorus. _ _
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_ Now this time, [G] _ _
G, _ _ _ _ [A] _ A,
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[G] _ G, _ _ _ _ [E]
E. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
[Ab] So you can see too, like another thing, a term in music is called dynamics. _
Dynamics is how loud and [E] intense or how soft and quiet _ your music goes.
And I find, you know, just through experience _ _ that dynamics are so important.
They really can make a song.
Even if, you know, you have a progression that's the same chords over and over, you
can change your rhythm, change how you [G] voice it, and you can really add contrast between two parts.
What I like about this, especially like acoustic guitar style, is that we kind of have a cool,
soulful kind of verse _ _ with bar chords.
You can [B] really control how much they ring out.
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[Gm] _ _ [A] _ _ [Em] _ _ [B] _ _
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_ And then when you go to the chorus, it sounds different.
Even though I'm still playing a G chord, it's open [G] sounding. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ And then it does it [G] again. _ _ _ _ _ _
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[G] And it goes G, _ _ [A] A, _ _ _ and then G to E. _
[G] G, _ _ E, E, [E]
E, E, E. _ _ _ _ _ _
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Contrast.
_ Dynamics. _ _ _
Stuff I like a lot.
I like it a lot.
So, keep plugging away.
Say 15 minutes a day, you'll always improve.
Really stick with those bar chords.
Don't give up on them if you're still _ struggling. _ _
_ Just little doses.
Go back to songs that don't have bar chords, so you get some confidence, and then tackle
one that just has one bar chord.
Then maybe play a progression like this, which is a bunch of the same bar chords slid up and down.
Play it for five minutes, and go back to an easier song.
Even if the bar chords sound really crappy, _ _ _ that's the only way you're going to get better.
I'd say play them crappy first, and let them get a little bit better every time.
Alright?
So, that's it.
We'll see you real soon. _ _
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