Spanish Guitar Lesson pt.2
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- Spanish Guitar Lesson
- Spanish Guitar Lesson pt.2
Open, 2, 3. So if I play those two strings together along with the other strings that we’ve already learnt, its open, 2, 3, open, 2, 3, open, 2, open, 1, 3, open, 1, 3. The top E string is open, 1, 3. So starting from the top E, I’ll run through it again, calling out the fret positions. its open, 1, 3…I beg your pardon. Open, 1, 3, open, 2, 3, open, 2, 3, open, 2, open, 1, 3, open, 1, 3. So you’re going to …you’re going to need to play that scale very quickly, so if you want to practice it to get up the speed, maybe play it quickly and in several different ways, uh, not chromatically, mix it up a little bit.
So if you can get up the speed like that, you can see that there’s a lot of music to be found in that simple scale. Uh, the chords that we’re going to be using over the top, just going to introduce two right now, and you should know that the first one is just a basic A minor. And so you can see where my fingers are positioned. If you don’t know an A minor, you can find a chord chart. It’s a very first position A minor chord. And then I’m also going to switch to uh.. sort of a modified F chord as well. So this is the position I’m in for that, and you can see that I’ve got uh.. my first finger on the first string of the first fret and then I’m going to take my ring finger and my little finger, and put them both stacked on top of each other on the next two strings down. And then I’m just going to follow up with uh.. my middle finger on the G string on the second fret. It kind of gives me a sound like that. So if I want a stroke of that, along with the A chord, I can get sort of a very simple progression going. You kind of want to get your hand working the uh.. the strings, and you can get a sound something like. You can be really creative. Um.. you can follow the A minor with a relative major which should be a C. You can also put that in. Just put in a salsa. Kind of hammer that around. If I’m going to do an A, then back to A minor. Flavour it up a little bit. Now, what I’m going to do here is, when I play this scale that we played originally, I’m going to strike a base note. And I’m just going to play the uh.. the E string, I’m just going to play it open.. So if I begin to play the scale here, on the uh.. lower E string on the third fret, I’m going to pluck the base note as well, so that would be the low E. Gives me a sound like that.
In case you didn’t see the video in part 1 of this series… here it is again
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