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Summary: Playing various chords in guitar is a great way to practice your instrument. Learn to strum the B minor, A major and G major chords from a seasoned musician in this free guitar video.
Stephen Haendiges is a seasoned musician, guitarist, teacher, composer and performer with over 15 years of experience. Stephen has recorded and performed in top clubs all around the...read more
"In this example what I'm going to show is a B minor chord progression with a different type of strum where I'm going to be doing, starting as a strum, and then playing with like little melody notes as opposed to a full strum. And I'm going to be doing B minor, A and G major. And with the drums it'll sound like this. Okay, what I did there essentially was start with a down stroke on the B minor, but instead of just simply going back and forth doing a strum, what I did was actually individually picked notes in the chords. So with the B minor I went... or another nice effect is you go...So essentially what I was doing there was picking either, you can do either F sharp in the chord, or you can do... there, and then the same with the other chords, A. And then again it's another variation of a strum you can do and it has a nice effect and doesn't quite sound as monotonous."