Sep
01
2018
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Always on my mind. — Willie Nelson
By Kevinweaver
3 string fretted but usually played with slide
3 string fretted but usually played with slide
Guy Mitchell's song called "singing the blues"
I've just added a video and chord chart to help you build chords for your four stringer.
If it's possible to distill learning down to one idea it is this:
And you've created a cycle in which every element is fed by the one before it.
So we've learned to listen to single notes rising and falling in pitch and we've learned about three important chords, the I the IV and the V. We've found them on our guitars, listened to them move around in cadences and heard them in action in a twelve bar blues. Now it's time to hear them at work in other songs and learn to recognise them for yourself.
So you'll recall from the previous blog that we are learning to identify by listening to them, three important chords: the tonic chord (I), the fourth chord in the scale (IV) and the fifth chord in the scale (V).
To help you recognise these three important chords lets examine a little more closely the standard twelve bar blues progression. While there are variations on how we navigate these twelve bars the most basic version contains three lines, each of which has four bars and it looks like this:
If you're back from the last blog - A Journey In Listening - then congratulations, that shit is hard. If you've practiced that exercise every day though it would have got easier, not easy, but you'll have made progress and it's time to move on.
Awesome song performed on fretted CBG but after only 8 month of playing I've no idea of tuning, etc.
Would really like to learn this one!
This is the first in a series of blogs aimed at demystifying the study of music using methods that I've found effective over many years.
While it can seem overwhelming to start with, in the end it comes down to unravelling the language that musicians use and connecting it to the music you hear, one step at a time.
To understand music theory you need to directly connect new concepts to musical examples you can hear.
