Open G lessons chord and scales

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This is for standard Open G ( as rick tunes the 6th up to g)


From standard tuning
Tune down 1st and 6th down to D
Tune down the 5th down to G

As we are in G we use the 5th string as the Root of the scale, and we plat the scale just on the 5th string.

Each note of the scale is place above each fret.

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Let look a 12 bar in G.
Music theory we can make a chord from the major scale ( we are looking at the Root, 4 and 5 chords ) we use the 1 , 3 and 5th note form the scale

ROOT chord 1=G, 3=B and 5= D


4 chord 1=C 3=E 5=G

5 CHORD 1=D 3 F# 5 = A

This tab show the postion of these 3 chords all major.

G chord all open note for the root of the 5th string
4th chord at the 5th potion
5th chord at the 7th position

The 12 bar hear is basic one chord per bar
count 1 2 3 4

The 12 bar works like this
starts on bar 9 on this tab with 12 bar structure above it 

1st chord for 4 bars
4th chord for 2 bars(bar 5 and 6_
1st for 2 bars ( bar 7 and 8
5th 1 bar (bar 9 )
4th 1 bare(bar 10)
1st one bar( bar 11)
5th one bar(bar 12)

with your 1st finger bar across the fret form the 5th down to 1st string. 

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part 3 12 bar quick change

Please go through each part one at time

If you have tried the basic 12, then we try the quick change.
We replace the 2 bar bar in 12 bar sequence with 4th chord ( C is the 4th chord) henc bar 2 is now C not G

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part 4 boogie shape with 6th and 7th note boogie

we will play the on G and D sting

Bar 1 G is open t
he G6 we play G open and use finger 1 to play the 2 fret of the D string
G7 we play G open and use 2nd finger to play the 2 fret of the D string

C chord
bar the G and D with 1st finger to play D5 at the 5th frets
D6 keep the bar shape and use the 3rd finger to play 7th fret on the d string
D7 keep the bar shape and use the 4th finger to play 7th fret on the d string

D chord bar the 7th fret with 1st finger

bar the G and D with 1st finger to play D5
D6 keep the bar shape and use the 3rd finger to play 9th fret on the d string
D7 keep the bar shape and use the 4th finger to play 10th fret on the d string

Practice these shapes , then we will play 1 12 bar in this bit.

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part 5 12 bar 8th note boogie

So far we worked on scales, learing the basic 12 bar chords and names. We then looked at Boogie shapes.
Now we can move on a full 12 bar boogie.

In music we have a 4/4 timing.
Top line tells us that is there 4 notes to one bar
Bottom line is lenght of the 4 notes in this we get 4 quarter notes.

hence
count 1 2 3 4 per bar

In boogie music we half each quarter note, to get 1/8 hence by fraction we can see 2 1/8 is = 1/4

we then count this as
1 a 2 a 3 a 4 a ( hence we get 8th notes , 1,2,3 and 4 , and 4 a`s0


Lets look this tab( notice the count is makrked on each bar)

The boogie patren work like this

Bar 1 G chord 1 a , G6 on the 2 then G5 on the and, the pateren is same again on the 3 G5 a , the on the 4 G6 the a )

Practice that pattern, the try the bar shapes C5 C6, D5 and D6

Once you have mastered that. we will move on to the suffle beat.

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Triplets and shuffle

Triplets is 1/4 noted dived in 3 hence we get 4 groups of 3 notes

Bar 1 we can the 1/4 divided into 3 note hence we get 1/4= TRI Pl ETS

we can count this as Tr Pl Et
or bar 2 we count out the number of the beat

like 1 Pl et , beat 2 as 2 pl et, beat 3 as 3 Pl et and beat 4 as 4 pl et

These are well used in the Blues classic example is Dust my Broom Elomore james version at the start of the song



Shuffle beat is related to the Triplets , i belive that drummers used to cheat as it is very difficult to maintain that rapid 3 note beat.

Bar 4 we miss out the 2md count for group of triplets

hence we get Tri x let x=pl that we don`t count


It give the music a pules bar 5 we see the full shuffle count as 1 x et , 2 x et , 3 x et and 4 x et ( remember not play the x note )

Ok see in the final section for 12 bar shuffle

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Final part 12 bar shuffle.

If you have worked through all the sections this should be 2nd hat by now.

We can now apply the shuffle to 8th note boogie , but this will have that pulse effect same rules apply to 8th note chords and fingerimg, it the right hand that does the work, ie the shuffle beat.

Count out the same as we disused in the Triplet and Shuffle conting. If you have done that this shuuld be getting more easier.

Take care have fun , that was a lot to get through.

Any question post them hear , if you want a video posted or something.

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