Summary: Learn how to play the low E string on the bossa nova guitar, including guitar chords and scales in this free video jazz music lesson.
Ryan Larson is a young jazz composer whose teaching technique focuses on the basics of music theory in all 12 keys. When applying his 12-key technique to understanding the logic behind...read more
"If we look at our fret board we have 13,11,13,13. I just got my middle finger on the root, corner finger on the 11 and the rest are being borrowed by my ring finger. Then our last chord we are going to learn is nice and easy F7 chord which is actually written on E but that is okay we are just looking for the pattern. So we have 12,12,13,12,12, and you can use your 14 fret here on the B string as well. We would show that to you so you have here E right 12,12,13,12, and you can use the 14 there as well. So it is nice simple chord to get under your fingers and those are your first 3 chords in your E string. Now we are going to go ahead and learn the D and the A string same exact chords so we can go through and apply them to our tune."
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