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Color Chords with Jake Stogdill

guitar advanced

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Want to expand your rhythm guitar chord palette? Jake & I sit down at my General Store to discuss some advanced guitar color chord ideas. The approach we take is to create new chords by borrowing from other chord shapes, and the possibilities are immense! What color chords will you discover?

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  1. Karen Doyle

    โ™ฅ 8

    My fingers know it but my brain doesn't yet — I can't play it without the tab in front of me. How do you all commit these to memory?

  2. Sharon Kile

    โ™ฅ 2

    That's the one that made me finally understand backup. Stick with it.

  3. Bill Threadgill

    โ™ฅ 3

    Try it without the pick for a few passes. Sounds silly but it told me my right hand was doing too much.

  4. Katie Clark Support

    โ™ฅ 27

    Great question. That's a slide going into the B part — I play it as a slide but a hammer-on works fine if that's cleaner for you. Do what sounds right.

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