Hi, I'm Jim Deeming. Instructor for JamPlay.com.
Welcome to the next lesson in beginning guitar one, this is lesson nine and the title is "Let's Play."
One of the things that I really think helps, particularly new students is to early on get use to the idea of playing with another musician,
with another instrument and it helps reinforce staying on time, staying with somebody.
This will push you to probably new levels on your chord transitions that we've been working on so far.
So what I've done is, literally this morning, messed around with and came up with a melody
that uses the three chords that we've talked about up until this point.
The One, Four and Five chord and we can do this in any of the three keys that we now know.
The key of D, the key of G and the key of A.
So what I'd like to do is introduce you to this song and let you start thinking about what it's supposed to sound like.
I hope the melody line sticks in your head just enough to where you can follow it
and perhaps most importantly anticipate chord changes as they're coming up.
What this is going to have you do, if you remember when we talked about 4/4 time, four beats for each measure.
This song has four beats on each of your four chords and just like you heard me play on the intro the song sounds like this.
Now what you will be doing while I play the melody line is...
One, Two, Three, Four. One, Two, Three, Four.
We're going to do two versions of this now in the key of D. We'll do a slow one so that you can get use to the transitions.
Then I'll pick up the pace a little bit and then you can loop that one through and play it with me a little bit faster if the chords feel comfortable for you.
So let's get ready to go, we're going to start on the D.
Four beats on each one and for now maybe what you want to start with is what I just did which is the bass note, strum.
So, One, Two, Three, Four. One, Two, Three, Four.
One, Two, Three, Four.
Do that pattern two times and you'll stay right with me.
Let's give it a try. One, Two. Ready go.
How'd you do?
Remember now we're going… That pattern on each of our four chords.
When we get to the beginning though we repeat the D twice.
So we go, four beats here, four beats here, four beats here on the A, four beats on the D and that completes one half of it and then we start again.
So in the middle there's actually eight beats on that D chord.
So that get's you used to thinking about chord transitions on time in the middle of a song.
Let's do it again. One, Two. Ready go.
Maybe you'd like to try it a little faster, we can do that to. This song get's a little fun when we give it some tempo.
One, Two. Ready go.
Here's what your part sounds like.
Ok give that a try. Start with the slow version until you're ok with the transitions.
Then try a few laps through the faster version.
What we're going to do after this is we're going to play it in a different key and give you some practice on some different transitions.
Hit the pause and rewind button and come back when you're ready to go to the next key.