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Mix Chords, Licks and Melody

June 24, 2022 By Klaus Crow Leave a Comment

Playing a chords, chord progressions and songs is fun, but combining chords with melody by adding licks to the table is even more fun. This style of playing adds beautiful colors to the rhythm that makes the whole thing really interesting to the listeners ear. Today we’re going to do just that.

Video Lesson

Mix Chords, Licks and Melody

Learning to combine chords and licks is a skill that has to be trained and practiced. It’s a different technique that requires you to anticipate your next move where your fingers have to jump from chords to single notes lines.

Tips

  • Practice and memorize then entire tune from beginning to end
  • Practice the chord strumming slowly
  • Practice the licks / fills slowly
  • Practice the chord strumming and fills slowly
  • Hear me: When I say slowly, I mean slowly
  • Make sure each notes sounds clean and clear
  • Gradually increase your speed when you a bit comfortable
  • Learn how to practice faster
  • Practice daily

Tablature

If you want more of this check out:
Combine Chords and Melody | G – C – D |
Chord Melody Guitar | C – F – G – Am – Dm |

Combine Chords with Melody

June 11, 2022 By Klaus Crow 3 Comments

Today we’re going to combine chords and melody using a G – C – D ( I – IV – V ) chord progression. This is a fun one that you’ll enjoy practicing. See the video lesson and Tabs below.

Video Lesson

Combining Chords with Melody

You can play this sweet little melody between the chords of G – C and D, but once you got those comfortable under your fingers you can also use others chord derived from the G major scale like: G – Am- Bm – C – D – Em – F#dim – G. Okay F#dim will be your least favorite, but the others chords will sound great around the melody.

Enjoy experimenting and have fun!

Tabs

Ending G – G6sus4 – G

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To Love Somebody Guitar Lesson

April 11, 2022 By Klaus Crow 2 Comments

Today I’m going to teach you one of my favorite songs “To Love Somebody” by The Bee Gees. This song is covered by lots of people including Janis Joplin, Michael Bolton and my favorite cover version by Damien Rice & Ray La Montagne.

To Love Somebody – Guitar Lesson

I’ll teach you the most simplified version of this song, so it’s going to be in the key of D. The chords for this song are D – G – Em – C – A.

I will teach you two different strumming patterns, a very common strumming pattern for this type of song and a simplified strumming pattern for beginners.

common strumming pattern: ↓↓↑↑↓↓↓↑ = down – down – up – up – down – down – down – up 

Simple strumming pattern: ↓↓↑↑↓↓ = down – down – up – up – down – down  

Watch the video guitar lesson below to learn this amazing song. This is a must-learn-song! ;)

Please share your feedback in the comments below or on Youtube. I read and reply to everyone of them. I’d love to hear from you! πŸ’šπŸŽΈ

12 Bar Blues Basic Strumming + Triplet Turnarounds

April 4, 2022 By Klaus Crow 7 Comments

Hi lovely people, I’ve got a 12 Bar Blues Progression for you today with a basic strumming pattern, a basic turnaround and some extra fancy triplet turnarounds to spice things up.

Basic 12 Bar Blues Progression

This 12 Bar Blues shuffle is in the key of E and moves through the following 12 bar chord progression:

/ E7 / E7 / E7 / E7 / A7 / A7 / E7 / E7 / B7 / A7 / E7 / B7 /

 The last four bars of the progression function as the turnaround. You can play this by strumming through the pattern / B7 / A7 / E7 / B7 / or finish it with a more enhanced turnaround that makes the progression sound really cool. Eventually you want to learn both. If you’re a beginner just start with the basic turnaround.

Basic 12 Bar Blues Strumming Pattern

For the strumming pattern we play: ↓↓↑↑↓↑ “down-down-up-up-down-up” for each bar / measure throughout the entire progression.

Below there’s a video lesson where I explain the entire 12 bar blues with the strumming patten and different blues turnarounds.

Enjoy!

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