Ok, I hope you're getting along with the new JamPlay song.
Now we're going to play it in the key of G and just a review these are all chords you now know.
The G becomes your one chord. One.
C is your four chord.
D is now the five chord.
So that's our circle of chords.
One, Four, Five, One.
The JamPlay song in this key sounds like this…
So while I'm doing that, you're playing the chords.
One, Two, Three, Four. One, Two, Three, Four.
And that repeats again just like before only with different chords this time.
Alright, let's setup and do the slow practice version. Try it with me if you can.
One, Two, Ready.
Ok, now we'll do it a little bit faster.
We're going to do the JamPlay song in the key of A now.
Playing in the key of A now.
Now what you're probably seeing looks a little different to you maybe than the traditional way or the way you've seen me show you these chords before.
I have to do that in order to keep the melody going for you.
This is an A, doing a little half bar here and that's because I need to get these notes
and then here comes the D chord but the melody line goes underneath that D chord so I'm having to lift it.
So it's looks a little funny to you but it's still a D chord.
There's a little bit of a head-start on the fingerstyle lessons that are coming for you.
That's one of the reasons that I'm pushing you so much to learn chord shapes and learn a few different fingerings of them is for this exact reason.
You can be in a key and have a melody that needs to go around, in this case the A chord.
All I'm doing, I'm thinking in terms of the same chord shapes and the One, Four, Five chords you're playing with me but what I'm having to do
is add the melody line around it and keep something going on the bottom to keep our rhythm and chords going.
In the meantime, you're chording with me right?
Ok, let's do it a little bit faster, strum this.
Alright, once again our goal here is to get some practice on your right hand, staying smooth and on rhythm
and then work with the left hand on getting transitions in between these chords.
We're going to be using these chords a lot down the road.