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New Recordings - Chord Progression
Filed Under (Practice, Practice Session, Recorder, Rhythm, Zoom H2) by Frank on 07-05-2008
Tagged Under : Chord, Chord Change, Chord Progression, Zoom H2
A few days ago, I made some recordings with the intention of posting them here. I came up with a quick chord progression while practicing Bm.
Actually, I didn’t really come up with the progression. The progression is Bm, A, G, Em which are the chords for Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd as written here. It is the strumming that I “created” which I liked quite a bit. So I grabbed my Zoom H2 and recorded it.
I can’t play it perfectly. The reason I came up with it was because I’ve been trying to practice the Bm chord. I can play it, I just need to be able to switch to it faster.
Here are the recordings.
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You can hear the “dead” chords that I’m playing after some of the chord changes. That is when I’m trying to go back to Bm. It doesn’t work always, but I did get a few in there. Just getting a few of those changes was a major accomplishment for me. The recordings aren’t perfect, but I’m still working on it. I will try to post more when I feel the chord transisitions are better.
you might want to try it a little slower than what you tried. you might also want to try just straight quarter notes at first just to familiarize your muscles with the chord change. hope it goes well with you
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Hey Frank, they don’t sound too bad at all. Is it worth trying them using a metronome or click-track. Also, when changing to difficult chords it’s sometimes good to alter the strum slightly so that you hit the strings you know you have right, buying you time to get the other ones in place. It makes it much easier to keep the tempo even, which is actually the main thing (I think). It also accents the root on the first beat of the bar.
For example, when you change to the Bm chord (A shape, I presume), aim to strike the A string and not much else on the first beat, then play the full chord on the rest of the strums. If done properly it also adds texture.
It seems to me that’s the trick with most guitar - playing it ‘right’ is difficult and sounds flat. Playing it ‘the easy way’ often makes things sound much more interesting!!!!
My opinion only, of course!
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Hey rhoy,
Thank you for the tips. I later thought about that… That I should play it slower. I have played them with the quarter notes. I can play that fairly well. I think slowing it down will help a lot… I’m not sure. I will experiment. When I record more, I will post them here…
Thanks for stopping by!
Regards,Frank
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Hey Kenski,
I actually was playing that with a Metronome. I did get out of sync with it a few times.
You can’t hear the metronome because my recorder plays plays it in my monitoring headphones. (I really like the Zoom H2)
Regarding the little trick… That is interesting. I will try to play around with that a little bit. I definitely want to see if that changes how the recordings sound.
Thanks for the tips!
Regards,
Frank
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Hey Frank, I just posted a quick strum on my site which kinda shows what I meant. It starts with a simple 3 chord progression (actually capo’d at the 3rd fret) starting with an Em shape. You basically target the top couple of strings on two down strokes then play upstrokes on the high strings which means it sounds like your playing different chords (which are actually inversions I guess).
Know what you mean about the metronome! It’s sometimes actually harder with one, as if you come off the beat you end up on the ‘and’. Eek!
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