Hey Friend,
Today's exercises only require you to have two fingers and the ability to strum simple patterns. These are easy to play, and yet you’re going to be excited by how good you sound!
Over the past few weeks we've looked at a few fingering patterns that will help you memorize the fingerboard. In particular, it’s the shapes that have untapped power in them.
We practiced the perfect fifth interval pattern and the third interval patterns, and how to use them in songs.
Now we’re going to mix and match so you can see just how versatile these two patterns can be. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised at how easily you can take these extremely simple finger patterns and create inspiring riffs and progressions.
In these exercises, you're only going to finger the D and G strings, so everyone can play them, regardless of where you are in your guitar journey. By adding open strings in the strums, these double stops become interesting, full chords.
Here are the exercise files:
I repeated the first exercise two more times at faster tempos so you can work on your strumming. The second exercise I set at two tempos.
Did you happen to notice that even though the predominant pitch in each chord is A and we’re only using three basic chord roots throughout (A, B and E), there is so much diversity in the what you hear.
The open A string keeps things anchored on that tone, and the simple act of moving your fingers up and down the neck and changing these two finger patterns demonstrates that you don’t have to have years of practice under your belt.
Try these out - have a great one!
Peace~
Dave
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