Hi, and welcome back to this third in our series of short lessons about guitar chord progressions especially focusing on how we connect one guitar chord with a second guitar chord.
Now here's a secret. In the process of learning guitar chord
progressions, especially the art of connecting one chord with a second
chord in ways that interest and engage the listener, on a deeper level
we're learning to connect the performer with the audience. With that in
mind, let's move forward. We're going to move into skips.
Everything we've done so far involves stepping. For example, "The
Walk-Up" which turned backwards becomes "The Walk-Down. "Two steps
forward, one step back," which inverted becomes "one step back, two
steps forward."
Stepwise motion is the most stable kind of melodic movement, but we're
going to begin the relatively unstable motion of skipping. In order to
stay stable, the most stable skipping motion is skipping that outlines
one of the chords in our guitar chord progressions. We could also call
it harmonic stability.
In this case, we're going to outline the G guitar chord like this...
That's also called an arpeggio. Now, we're going to integrate skips and
steps to connect the bottom of the G guitar chord with the bottom of the
C guitar chord. So we move to where we're just next to the C and we can
just step right up like in the song [sings] "When the night has come,
and the land is dark," and so on.
Second thing we can do is skip just past the C to the D and then step
right back and settle into the chord. Like this: [plays guitar]. Both
are very pleasant and elegant motions.
So to integrate that, let's find our groove. Feel it in your body and
pick a mood. I'm going to do something uplifted, fun and we'll explore
these guitar chord progressions.
That's the basic idea. That's the seed and I'm planting the seeds.
That's my job, I feel, as your musical mentor, as a musical mentor. And
your job is to water the seed, give the seed the light of your attention
so that it grows into something beautiful, unexpected even. Try these
ideas in conjunction with every chord that you know so that you connect
these ideas and remember that as you're learning to connect guitar
chords in your guitar chord progressions, in this process you are also
learning to connect the performer with the listener.
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Guitar Chord Progressions
