Understanding Guitar Chord Progressions with Bollywood Music - Lesson 3 - by Pawan

This is the third lesson in a series to help you understand common chord progressions used in Bollywood Music. I encourage you to see the earlier lessons as well to understand this one better.

Thanks for your overwhelming feedback to this series, and look forward to your continued support.

Stay tuned ...
Pawan

Category:

Music

Tags:

• guitar
• chord
• progressions
• patterns
• pawan
• hindi
• bollywood
• music
• films
• songs

[tariqtayab]

Thanx a million Pawan..

[pjalan]

pleasure, tariq :)

[mirapakay]

Hi Pawan, your lessons are helping a lot in learning theory and actual melodies. Thanks a lot. Can you pl explain how are the notes translated in to Sa Re Ga Ma .... Some times I feel E=Sa F=Re....etc because that way Sa and Pa translate to E and B which have no sharp notes in both Western and Indian versions.

[pjalan]

excellent question, mira!

the western system uses a fixed name based on the actual frequency, whereas SaReGa is using a movable system ... similar to the western DoReMi which is not used much .... so Sa is the tonic or first note of the scale you are playing in, eg, if ur playing a song in C major, C will be Sa, D will Re, E will be Ga ... if u r playing in A minor, A will Sa, B will be Re, C will be Komal Ga ...

[khaitru22]

does your guitar is attached to an amplifier?

[pjalan]

yes!!

[pjalan]

thanks for your sweet feedback, mahanti :)

will try to post some detailed lessons on rhythm soon ...

[gmahanti]

@pjalan : Thanks Pawan for your response. Yes, the strumming explained in lessons is great. However some general lessons will be very useful. Although, I can play chords but find difficulty in getting the strumming rhythm right. Dont know whether its a common problem with beginners like me or is specific to me. Will practising with a metronome help? Thanks once again. I finally seem to have found my perfect guitar tutor.

Gautam

[pjalan]

thanks mahanti :)

many of my song chord lessons have a lot of detail on how to pick up strumming ... but i will try posting some general lessons in future ...

[gmahanti]

Pawan, thanks for putting up these lessons. They are probably one of the best available on the internet and I look fwd to more of them. A request, can you share some lessons on strumming patterns and how does one actually pick these up? Thanks