GSCC Lesson 12
Revision of Lesson 01-11
If you are new to this series, here’s the links to past lessons:
We had covered all the family chords and their siblings in key of C and G Major:
Key of C major and G major are common keys used by guitarist to play sing-along guitar.
We also looked at the guitarist best friend – CAPO , and it’s application.
When we use the CAPO in conjunction with chords from C and G keys above , we are able to play almost every pop songs we wanted to play.
We have also looked at some basic strumming patterns:
| 1 | One strum per beat |
| 2 | Up-stroke strumming |
| 3 | Strumming lightly on first few strings |
| 4 | 16 beat strum |
| 5 | Campfire Strum |
| 6 | “Chuck” Strum |
And we had explored some basic pluckings.
| 1 | 8 beat pluck #1 |
| 2 | Double string pluck |
Last week, we learned about 3/4 time signature and how we can strum and pluck in this musical feel:
And of course, we had fun learning all these songs !!
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Let’s meet the sibling of 3/4 = 6/8
Let’s look at another time signature which is similar to 3/4.
The counting of beats for 6/8 are as follow:
This new time signature create something similar to 3/4, yet different. Let’s see how we can play them?
6/8 strumming
So, how do we strum in 6/8?
Practice#1: Try to listen to the counting beat (the Tok-Tok cowbell sound) below and try executing the strumming pattern above:
After mastering the pattern, let’s try it with our usual exercise chord progression:
Practice #2: Play them with chord changes exercise video:
Practice #3: Let’s apply this to the new songs we are going to learn today: “What A Wonderful World” and “新不了情”. They are both in 6/8 time signature, specially chosen and produced for today’s theme 😉
6/8 plucking
How about 6/8 plucking?
Practice#1: Try to listen to the counting beat (the Tok-Tok cowbell sound) below and try executing the plucking pattern above:
After mastering the pattern, let’s try it with our usual practice chord progression:
Practice #2: Play them with chord changes exercise video:
Practice #3: Let’s apply this to the new songs we are going to learn today: “What A Wonderful World” and “新不了情”. They are both in 6/8 time signature, specially chosen and produced for today’s theme 😉
An alternate version of 6/8 plucking
In the strumming section, we mentioned that we should emphasize beat 1 and 4. So , for plucking, here’s what we can do:
Let’s apply this to the new songs we are going to learn today: “What A Wonderful World” and “新不了情”. They are both in 6/8 time signature, specially chosen and produced for today’s theme 😉
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Song #1 (English: “What A Wonderful World”)
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Song #2 (Chines Song: “新不了情” )
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