Author Archives: Benjamin Shapiro

Open F Major Chord

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This video is about the F major chord. It is part of the open major chord family has no open strings. It’s open & sounds happy vs the F-minor which sounds somber.


Open E Major Chord

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This video is about the E major chord. The E major is an open chord. It’s a common & happy sounding chord. The minor, E minor in contrast sounds somber. And here’s the chord fingering…


Open D Major Chord

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This video is about the open D major chord. It’s a major chord so it’s going to sound happy. The minor chord as a comparison, is somber sounding. Here’s the fingering…


Open C Major Chord

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Open A Major Chord


Open B Major Chord

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This video is for the open B major chord. It’s part of the open chord family but technically it doesn’t have any open strings. Let’s take a look this chord…


Lesson 5: Summary of Playing Strumming Patterns

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In this chapter we talked a lot about strumming and different techniques that you can use, some of them basic some of them more complicated. Let’s take a moment just to review.


Lesson 4: Strumming Tricks

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In this lesson we want to take that basic framework and add in some of the details to spruce it up and make it sound like the real thing.


Lesson 3: Strumming Pattern Details

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In the last lesson we learned how to take a strum progression and simplify it so that we can figure out how long the chords last for, and what we need to do in a real basic sense. In this lesson we want to take that basic framework and add in some of the details to spruce it up and make it sound like the real thing.


Lesson 2: Simplifying Strumming Patterns

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In the last lesson we went over song form and we talked about the various components that make up a song form: the verse, and the chorus and the bridge. In this lesson we want to go over techniques that you might use to break down a particular part of a song, and learn how to strum that part.


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