Simple Swing Chords in G With Bonnie - Guitar Lesson

This is a video on swing chords. I really enjoy tossing them in just to have some variety when playing back up, or just to play them throughout an appropriate tune.

The sound quality is very bad when I show close ups of the string action because the camera was resting on the guitar. Sorry about that!

The numbers for the Gadd2add6 (I don't know what else to call it!) from low to high E (left to right) are:

3-2-2-2-3-3

C7:

X-3-2-3-X-3 or X-3-2-3-3-3

D7:

X-5-4-5-X-5 (or X-5-4-5-5-5)

I forgot to mention the alternate chords for the D7 and C7. Instead of muting the B string on those chords, fret them with your ring finger. This adds a 9 (or 2) to the chord, making it something like a C7+9. I'm not sure what it's called.

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Music

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• guitar
• lesson
• swing
• chords
• blues
• country
• bluegrass
• bonniej
• flatpicking

[Texas466]

No! No! No! Sorry, but IMHO the advice offered in this video just isn't very good. I've been playing swing guitar professionally for 30 years and this just isn't how you want to do it. The chord formations shown here are never used in swing and neither is the right hand technique she uses. Bonnie seems like a good kid, but clearly, she's no swing guitarist.

[Authorized77]

You may be right. Unfortunately, I'm not very up on terms. I do use these chords to add what I would call a "swing" sound to bluegrass tunes I play, but that may not be what they are. Use them for what they are and how they sound :)

[freezazoid]

your first chord is not a G7. There isn't a major or minor seventh in that chord. There's a 6 and a 2. Sorry not a seventh chord, but good vid.

[Authorized77]

You're very right! I don't know my chords all that well, apparently :D Lol. I'm sorry to have labeled them wrong!

[VintagePicker]

Guitarists who criticize young players in public, instead of privately helping them aren't very professional. I've been playing for over 55 years and I'm still learning. I've also played with superb swing guitar players who can't tell me the names of the chords they're playing or what scales or modes used in their solos, but they play extremely tastefully and well. "Authorized" is learning and is willing to share her knowledge. That's more imporant than someone's ego.

[macLaine1988]

you suck..

[gary0074755]

before one runs their mouth about this young lady's way of playing or mistakes you better work on your own, one is always learning and trying new things an improvising, and that smart remark that martinemamus wrote that a woman who plays guitar in his country

[MartinSeamusMcfly1]

In a my country we say a woman who play guitar is like a monkey fly a plane

[sassysoph88]

I think your lessons are great. You are a swell guitarist, and I really don't think that we need to learn from "masters." If we must wait to be able to pay a master musician to teach us, we may be waiting a long time. Let us all be students and teachers, always learning from one another, with the goal of improving day by day. Thanks for your work!