Guitar Lesson: Fingerboard Harmony

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Andrew Wasson of Creative Guitar Studio answers a viewers question about lessening the overwhelm of learning chords on the neck.

Q: Hi! Ive been playing the guitar for quite a few years now and Im pretty happy with the progress I have made. But lately I have grown frustrated by the lack of chord voicing ideas I have. I try to force every chord into the same barre fingering. I do have access to the information of all the possible inversions and voicings I could ever want i.e., books and the internet, but thats part of the problem. Theres so much information, literally hundreds of pages of different voicings, and I just dont know where to start. So, finally to the question: Have you, over the course of your career, noticed some effective ways of learning different voicings, without being drowned under the flood of information at the very beginning.
- Seppo, Lappeenranta, Finland

Learning chords can be a real killer, however if approached in a logical way by looking at the string sets vs. chord roots, and understanding a little info. about chord construction and intervals, the process can be greatly simplified.

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Category:

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• chords
• fingerboard
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[derdude]

andrew you are awesome to the max!

[pb3ch]

you're the man, andrew. thank you.

[fightman121]

Andrew you are the best man I am so glad I found you, I wish I found you years ago. I can't stop practicing and I love theory. I have only just learnt to read music and man does it make a massive difference. My chord progressions have improved so much. You are the man dude thx.

[ForTheLackOfOne]

Whoa! YOU....ARE....THE....FREAKING.­..MAN!!! Whoa! Ideas and all kinds of light bulbs went off!! Thank you very much sir!

[zionchild83]

HEY ANDREW i WAS THINKING ABOUT GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT THE GUITAR AND TAKING SOME LESSONS BUT THEN I WAS LEAD TO YOUR CHANNEL ENOUGH SAID.

[tjrusk1]

It was like turning the light switch on, a different view that works good. Thank You

[ihalifaxx]

...wha?

[Bartolucci711]

@superagnitio

Totally agree, learning songs is tough man, but I can memorize a progression or scale pattern really fast. Glad I'm not the only one that thinks it's weird!

[onixtheone]

are you canadian?

[nicolas870]

Awesome lesson, thanks man.

[superagnitio]

I never understood people... I'm fascinated by theory and can't stop practicing scale and trying to improvise... though on the other hand learning songs is a torture for me... weird huh?

[EddJoke]

it's awesome !! :D Thanks a lot !!!