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March 1st, 2007
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New lesson: Happy Birthday
I finally remembered to get around to putting this lesson together! It's a nice easy version for beginners, a two finger bass-line/melody-line arrangement in the key of C.
Happy Birthday
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Kirk,
That's great, I could have used this lesson earlier.
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Hi Kirk
Love the lessons and the whole site.
I have a question though & forgive me for my ignorance: helpsmili .
Both me & my partner are learning to play and at times we kinda interupt each other when practising, so i thought it'd be a good idea on some of your lessons that one plays the lesson & the other the chords. That we we could practice both chords & fingerpicking together. Anyway i've kinda gone off the subject  The question is in your hapy birthday lesson which version of the chord F are you using? You say it's neutral what does that mean? I've tried looking it up, but i can only find 3 versions and they are all barre chords HELP!!!!  
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Same as the six string bar chord minus Root note .
E----1(F)-----
B----1(c)-----
G----2(A)-----
D----3(F)-----
A----3(C)-----Optional
E----1(F)-----optional
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Originally Posted by sixtysevenmark
The question is in your hapy birthday lesson which version of the chord F are you using? You say it's neutral what does that mean? I've tried looking it up, but i can only find 3 versions and they are all barre chords HELP!!!! |
I'm not using a chord, 67mark, I'm just playing notes from the chord. If I were to flesh it out into a proper chord, it would be the F barre on the first fret.
When I say it's neutral, I mean that IV chords are 'neutral' (not a musical term) in that they don't herald any subsequent chord change. In the key of C, F is the IV, so I wasn't referring to F really ... I was referring to the function of a IV chord within a key. V chords demand that you return to the I ... IV chords don't care where you go next.
This is all stuff that you needn't worry about if you're just starting out or just wanting to twang away ... it's just for those who are curious about the context of it all. Music is the epitome of context, so it's interesting to some ... I think!  ... interesting to me, anyway.
Next week's lesson will shed of bit of light onto this whole subject of chord functions within a key.
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March 4th, 2007
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Any old F chord will do the job, 67mark, which ever you find easiest to play. Plain old chords are just three notes that are played together, and on a guitar they can found in many locations and configurations. When you play a big six-string barre F chord, you're doubling up on one of those notes (the 5), tripling up on another (the 1, or root) and there's a 3 in there as well. As long as you get one of each -- 1-3-5 -- you're playing a major chord.
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The GfB&B Guitar Slide Rule
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Sorry if my ramblings confused you, but you do mention in the lesson that these chords are the ones that you would be playing if you were accompanying on rhythum guitar. 
