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30 Days to Play…G-Chord Success
So two days ago, I listened to Tony’s Lesson on the G Chord and was totally discouraged. I just couldn’t get my fingers on the correct frets without muting the strings. I went back and re-practices some of the old stuff. I even looked online for some “G chord alternatives”, thinking “what if I can never play this?”.
Anyway, tonight was much better. I re-listened to Tony’s lesson. I put my fingers where he said and strummed. Voila, the strings rang out tonight. Success.
After I burned up the ends of my fingertips playing the G-chord over and over, I actually sat there and tried to figure out what was being played on the 6 strings and determined it was a G, B, D, G, D, and G again (at least I think so) and I think these are the three notes for a G Major chord, correct?
So then I thought about a video on a C-chord alternative that involves only 2 fingers, one on the 3rd fret of the low E and one on the 3rd fret of the high 3 and that the low E finger was also quieting the A string. It doesn’t sound exactly the same, but it “goes”. Then I thought about the notes being played (this takes me a while). I think its G, D, G, B, and G again.
This was a long ways to getting to this: as long as were getting a G, B, and D note played, even if there are “extras” is it considered a G-major chord?
Anyway, I’m looking forward to tomorrow and seeing if my 60-year-old fingers can get it together and successfully playing a C chord!
Thanks for reading, and I wish beatiful playing to everyone.
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This discussion was modified 7 months, 1 week ago by
Kevin_D_from_FL.
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This discussion was modified 7 months, 1 week ago by
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Great win. You have the 1–3-5 chord concept. For G major that is the G,B and D. (Check out the GBE strings at the 7th, 8th, and 7th fret (D chord shape- index on E, middle on B and Ring on G. Voila! You have a B,G,D with root on the B string. That is a triad.
The C Major chord will be C,E, and G (1-3-5).
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THats awesome Kevin! Biggest thing that the group has taught me here… Don’t get hung up on perfection! It will happen. Just commit to the 4 weeks and 10-minutes a day. I NEVER in my life imagined I would be playing the guitar!
I’m on Friday of week 3, and I used today to kind of do whatever I wanted as long as I played, and I played “I Believe in You” by Don William’s almost flawlessly. I struggled last week and the first week with the G.
Keep at it and it will all come together! Your ahead of me thinking about the chord progressions and alternative fingerings!
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Yeah the G was definitely one of the harder in the group of first 10 chords that I learned. Not as bad as the B7, but harder than the C and the E.
Yes the E chord! It didn’t seem hard while learning to play it, but then months later I discovered I was frequently muting the G string.
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