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iPlayMusic Beginner Guitar Lessons for the Mac and iPod

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by Mike Jones

The following article teaches you a great little chord change you can use over and over again in many situation and should definitely be added to your bag of tricks. You should start to build up this bag of tricks right away even if you are not yet at a level to be able to play them. Remember they can used at a later date and will help tremendously in your quest to become an awesome guitar player. If the correct building blocks are in place then there is no reason why you should not become a great player. This sequence is really effective but it does assume you have some understanding of playing the guitar.

Clarifying what I have just mentioned as I feel it is really important to understand is that if you are not yet at a standard to be able to play this sequence – don’t panic! Store this tip in your bag of tricks and at a later date when you ability improves you will be able to pull it out to use at will. From the FREE articles I will be posting over the coming weeks you will be able to throw lots of tricks into your bag to be used whenever you choose.

Ok, let’s get going:

Play an ‘A major’ chord in the open position using your 1st, 2nd and 3rd fingers. Play one bar with all down strokes and on the beat.

Next lift off your 3rd finger to reveal the open B string (this chord is called Asus2) and play one bar.

Then using your 4th finger hold down the ‘B string’ at the 3rd fret (1st and 2nd finger remain unchanged at the second fret throughout this piece) and play one bar (this chord is called Asus4). Finally finish off with one bar of ‘Amajor’ to complete this four bar sequence.

And that’s it!

You will find that this chord sequence pops up in many, many songs, sounds really effective and can be used by the relative beginner to produce a really nice sounding sequence.

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