Playing a 1,4,5,4 Pattern in G Major on Guitar

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Joe Wiles with the Rock and Roll Conservatory on behalf of Expert Village. We're going to talk about the key of G and the three significant chords in the key of G. Now, from the previous segment we found out how to figure out the three significant chords in any of the CAGED keys. Now, remember that method only works for the five CAGED keys, okay? The three significant chords in the key of G are, you count G as your one. You want to look for the one, four, five, remember. One, two, three, four, five. G A B C D. G, C, and D are the three significant chords in the key of G. We're going to look at that on the guitar. You would play a G, C, D pattern. Well, we've done the exercises in previous steps, but it looks again like this. G, C, D. That's a million songs from "Twist and Shout" to "Louis Louis." It's a thousand other songs besides those two songs, so as you can see, the one, four, five, is really important to know. We're going to explore that a little bit more and how to use the G, C, D pattern all the way up the neck in the upcoming segments. I'll see you then."