Lick By Neck

GSCC Lesson 14

Revision of Lesson 01-13

If you are new to this series, here’s the links to past lessons:

Lesson 1

Lesson 2

Lesson 3

Lesson 4

Lesson 5

Lesson 6

Lesson 7

Lesson 8

Lesson 9

Lesson 10

Lesson 11

Lesson 12

Lesson 13

We had covered all the family chords and their siblings in key of C and G Major:

Key of C Major
Key of 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.

CAPO

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:

1One strum per beat
2Up-stroke strumming
3Strumming lightly on first few strings
416 beat strum
5Campfire Strum
6“Chuck” Strum
73/4 Strum
86/8 Strum

And we had explored some basic pluckings.

18 beat pluck #1
2Double string pluck
33/4 Pluck
4“Alternate Bass” Pluck
56/8 Pluck

Last week, we learned to create your own strumming pattern,

and plucking patterns.

And how to search for guitar chord charts online

We also learn the melody notes for key of C Major,

and G Major too.

And of course, we had fun learning all these songs !!

LessonSong
Lesson 1Song #1 (English: Because I Love You) Lesson 1
Lesson 1Song #2 (Chinese/Cantonese: 喜欢你) Lesson 1
Lesson 2Song #1 (English: Happy Birthday)
Lesson 2Song #2 (Chinese: 月亮代表我的心)
Lesson 3Song #1 (English: Let It Be – Beatles)
Lesson 3Song #2 (English: Perfect – Ed Sheeran)
Lesson 3Song #3 (Cantonese: 海闊天空)
Lesson 4Song #1 (English: Deperado – Eagles)
Lesson 4Song #2 (Chinese: “最长的电影” – 周杰伦)
Lesson 5Song #1 (English:”Creep” – Radiohead)
Lesson 5Song #2 (Chinese: “你要的愛”)
Lesson 5Song #3 (English: “Last Christmas” – Wham)
Lesson 6Song #1 (English: “Reality”)
Lesson 6Song #2 (Chinese: “刻在我心底的名字”)
Lesson 6Song #3 (English: “Auld Lang Syne”)
Lesson 7Song #1 (English: “Country Roads”)
Lesson 7Song #2 (English: “Time of Your Life”)
Lesson 7Song #3 (Cantonese: “朋友”)
Lesson 8Song #1 (English: “Sweet Child O’ Mine”)
Lesson 8Song #2 (English: “I’m Yours”)
Lesson 8Song #3 (Chinese: “简单爱”)
Lesson 9Song #1 (English: “Hey Jude”)
Lesson 9Song #2 (Chinese: “小幸运”)
Lesson 10Song #1 (English: “Sway”)
Lesson 10Song #2 (Chinese: “可可托海的牧羊人”)
Lesson 11Song #1 (English: “Edelweiss”)
Lesson 11Song #2 (English: “Que Sera Sera”)
Lesson 12Song #1 (English: “What A Wonderful World”)
Lesson 12Song #2 (Chinese: “新不了情”)
Lesson 13“Happy Birthday” melody on guitar in key of C and G Major

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Slap Rhythm

A very popular rhythm guitar technique is called “Slap Rhythm”. This is achieved by using your right hand to slap on the strings at your strumming/plucking area to create percussive effect (just like the Chuck Strum we did before).

Due to the motion of the technique, the Chuck Strum is more for the strumming,

for plucking, we have the “Slap Rhythm”

The following diagram shows the Slap Rhythm. The XXXXXX denotes the slapping part.

Slap Rhythm 01

Try to practice it slowly with the metronome beats:

After you had mastered the motion, try them out with chord progression:

Here’s the video for you to practice along:

After you had gained the confident of playing through chords, let’s apply this new pattern to songs!

Variation of the “Slap Rhythm”

Here’s a slight variation to the pattern (skipping the “T” at the 3rd beat, sustaining the 2nd “n”):

Slap Rhythm 01

Try to practice it slowly with the metronome beats:

After you had mastered the motion, try them out with chord progression:

Here’s the video for you to practice along:

After you had gained the confident of playing through chords, let’s apply this new pattern to songs!

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How to make “Happy Birthday” happier?

Last week, we learned how to play “Happy Birthday” melody on guitar:

The melody is nice, but it may sound a bit empty and plain.

Let’s see if we can make it sound nicer and fuller.

Here’s the chords to the song:

We can actually combine the chord and melody together! The trick is to play the chords “below” the melody notes. This means we are gonna play part of the chords.

Knowing this concept, let’s apply it to the entire song. Here’s the demonstration:

Congratulations!! You are playing your first ever solo guitar instrumental song!!!

You are playing it alone without accompaniment of any other instruments (including vocal), like what the pianist does, that is why it is called solo guitar.

It is also called Chord Melody Guitar because basically you are playing both the chord and melody guitar together.

If you do not sing, this is a great way to present the melody of a song. If you do sing, you can use this technique to play the intro or interlude of the song.

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