Chords for Post-Rock Lesson - A Beautiful Progression

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_ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] Hello everybody and welcome to the video.
Corey from Gemini Guitar.
So this one's a bit more, I'd say, impromptu [N] today.
Just a random idea I've been jamming on and this makes a good example for the post-rock
style and in particular a band I really admire called Hammock.
Now this makes use of a popular progression within more melancholy styles of music and
that is, _ it's something I call the Iron Maiden progression, which sounds kind of funny but it's true.
[C] So I'll just show the bass notes first.
This is really easy stuff but let's go through it.
So it's fret 8 on the low E string C. _
_ _ [Cm] _ _ Then it's fret [G] 10 on the [D] same string.
_ _ _ And then it's fret 12 on the same string.
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _
Now [Am] this progression, if you listen carefully to metal, rock, _ _ post-rock, post-punk, any
of those styles, this progression comes up a lot in those styles of music.
Modern examples, I guess, even emo, stuff like that.
In fact, emo comes up a lot.
I'm not a fan of that music but if you are into it, check out a lot of those bands because
they do use this progression a lot. _ _ _
_ _ So what I'm doing from there is I'm utilizing the open G and _ [G] the note that's underneath
the same fret as the bass note on the B string.
So let's go through that.
So when I'm playing the C note for the bass, I'm using the G note at fret 8 on the B string
along with the open G string.
So if you play those three in order, it sounds like [C] this. _ _ _ _ _
_ Just _ [G] move that up a whole step.
Same thing, so your middle finger should be on the 10th and first finger at fret 10. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Move up another whole [Em] step. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [N] And basically what I'm doing is I'm picking in a way that just carries the sound over a bit.
So I'll just give you the example.
I'm not going to tell you to do it in any exact way because you can just jam on this
because there's only a few notes so you can just mix it up a bit.
But [C] this is what I'm doing.
So I look carefully at my right hand, I should say, the picking hand. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Now you will notice that I added in just a short melody which is a really [N] nice idea.
This is why it reminds me so much of Hammock because they just have this ability _ to do
this sort of thing.
It's a really simple melody over something that's a bit washed out and then they keep
repeating it and it just keeps building.
It's really nice.
So this actually makes for good meditation music if you're just sitting there on a _ _ boring
day or a gloomy day or something like that.
And just have a bit of a, you know, have a good think.
It's great thinking music.
_ So what I do is I take the D [G] note over at fret 15, this is on the B string, _ _ _ _ then I play
[D] the A note on the same string at fret 10 _ and then the B note at fret [F] 12 on the same [G] string.
_ _ _ _ And then the rhythm is this. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Now there is a reason I'm using the specific fingers that I am using.
That's because what I like to do is let it ring out when I play the bass note to begin
the riff again.
I'll show you what that means or looks like. _ _ _
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So essentially once I've played this note, just [Dm] here, _ [G] _
_ _ straight away after that I'm going
to play the bass note to begin the riff again but it creates this nice overlapping sound you see.
And this is a key component of the post rock style.
You've got to be able to let things ring out because you want them to sound, _ you know,
at times you want them to sound washed out, _ overlapping and there's an intensity about that.
_ [Bm] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Just back [G] into the idea. _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] Now the other cool thing about this, and this is what you will see in the introduction
when you go back and check it out, is that you're able to use the high E string as well,
which is open and anybody that's followed me for any length of time knows that I love
this sort of style of guitar playing where I take fretted notes _ into the higher realm
of the fretboard and then I love to [N] use the open strings with that.
And this is why G major and C major in particular are the best keys to do this in.
_ Unless you use alternate tunings like open tunings and so forth.
So I'll just give you a bit of a look at that.
So check out my right hand.
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So _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ anyways, that wraps things up.
Have a great weekend and until the next lesson,