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Beginner 7: Power & Sus Chords

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Get started with Power Chords and start rocking around! You'll also learn the notes in the open position and explore some more strumming patterns.

9 Lessons

39 mins and 19 sec

Notes In The Open Position

Notes In The Open Position

It is important to learn the names of the notes found around the nut. This will give you a better understanding of why you play chords a certain way, what the notes are ...

Power Chords 1

Power Chords 1

‘Power' Chords are used in most styles of music but are particularly useful for rock guitar; they even sound cool on acoustic (check out Nirvana's Unplugged album for an ...

Easy Open Suspended Chords

Easy Open Suspended Chords

Learn the easy open sus chords you can use to embellish your chords!

One Minute Changes (Stage 7)

One Minute Changes (Stage 7)

‘Knowing' sus chords is not good enough... you must play them until they become instinctive because you want to be able to have them come out naturally when you play. To ...

Rhythm Guitar Basics 5

This is worth learning even if you're not a country music fan. This is a slightly more advanced rhythm guitar pattern. In this pattern we separate out the bass note of t...

Minor Pentatonic Scale

This is the most common scale in blues, pop and rock music. It is easy to learn and is essential for learning to improvise in a blues style. ‘Penta' means five and ‘toni...

Easy Songs For Stage 7

You have all the basic beginner chords under your fingers now and will find you can play a LOT of songs. In this stage we introduced some "Sus" chords which are lovely fo...

Stage 7 Practice Schedule

We're up to 40 minute routine now!  As usual, break it into two 20-minute sessions if you can't find time to do 40 minutes a day. That is quite a lot of work for a beginn...

JUSTIN Ear Training Exercises (S7)

The key to learning music well is to use your ears. Don't forget that music is about sound and listening so this part of your guitar study will help you a lot more than y...

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