New and Old – G D & A – Lesson 14

[SynGates.com]

In this lesson we introduce you to the D Major Chord and the A Major Chord.

 

[Rute Rodrigues]

Ill transcribe some The Beatles songs, maybe Abbey Road or so. I love it!!

 

[idssdi]

Ill transcribe some The Beatles songs, maybe Abbey Road or so. I love it!!

If you're ambitious you should do the medley! It's almost like the Beatles at it's absolute best

 

[Rute Rodrigues]

If you're ambitious you should do the medley! It's almost like the Beatles at it's absolute best

God what a good idea!! I'll do a medley, it's really better!! Thanks for the advice!

 

[Rute Rodrigues]

@Ids Schiere Had an awesome idea: What do you think of transcribe all instruments? Like not just the guitar parts, but also bass's, vocals and drums? I could write on sheet music, what you think?

 

[idssdi]

@Ids Schiere Had an awesome idea: What do you think of transcribe all instruments? Like not just the guitar parts, but also bass's, vocals and drums? I could write on sheet music, what you think?

You can do it if you want it but with the Beatles that's a lot of work because they usually use a lot of instruments like piano, mellotron, flutes and orchestras and stuff like that( I mean a day in the life has like 150 violins and 3 pianos in it )

 

[Rute Rodrigues]

Maybe an easy one. Ill do that x) Ill start working on the medley too bro!

 

[David Deatherage]

"The hardest thing about this chord is you don't wanna hit the fifth and sixth string. Because (plays chord) that's a terrible sound." I laughed a little too much when Papa Gates said this! XD

 

[Maximiliano Posadas Torres]

The hardest thing about that chord was not touching the 6th string with fourth finger

 

[Chad]

How about supplying some songs and what chords we learned so far to give a start.

 

[idssdi]

How about supplying some songs and what chords we learned so far to give a start.

Good morning, good morning by The Beatles
Love Me Do by The Beatles
Yellow submarine by the Beatles(there a D7 in it too but I think it's fine)

Also the most basic blues in A

 

[Jacques]

Grooovin with the chunking on this one!

 

[Gilpow]

How about supplying some songs and what chords we learned so far to give a start.

Warning by Green Day
It's basically all A - D - G - D

 

[RØßIŇ]

 

[XxDarthVaperxX]

A trick that worked for me when trying to dampen the low E & A string with your thumb when playing the D Chord, is just letting your thumb relax. When I tensed up I actually fretted a note on the E string, I recommend loosely letting it hover over the strings. Take this with a grain of salt though, hope it helps!

 

[phatloots]

holy crap I will definitely going to be doing these chords for a couple weeks before moving on haha. Lots of practice and memorizing to do! its hard to get my fingers to swap between the chords fast enough

 

[Nicholas Paro]

On the D major chord, I find it easier to fret the third string with my second finger instead of first. and the first string with my first finger. Is this going to mess something up in the future, or is it just recommendation. I don't want to build the muscle memory and hit a snag in the future because I do it this way.

 

[Iris]

Funny you mentioned AC/DC. I thought those chords sounded suspiciously close to "You Shook Me All Night Long".

 

[William B.]

It's possible to slow down YouTube videos and you can loop them or parts of them with an app called YouTube Looper.
I learned it from fellow students. Should help with Transcribing and practice in general.

 

[spamcan]

I thought I knew those 3 chords fairly well but man, adding in the chunking threw me for a loop. I've gotta build a brain to finger circuit for that one.