Everything I have shown you so far concerning rhythms has been in the key of A but let say you get together with some of your friends and you are playing some music, yeah let us play some blues, okay, that sounds great. What key you want to play in? How about the key of G, or the key of F, or the key of B-flat. Alright, here is how you do it. I am going to show you a movable 12-chord pattern so you can play it any key that you want, okay. For the example, to illustrate this I am going to be using the key of G. Now, in order the facilitate this property you need to know all your notes on the six string and all your note on the 5th string. The sixth string at the 3rd fret, that note is G, okay. What I am going to do is I am going to take my 3rd finger and I am going to place it at the 5th string, 5th fret and just play those two notes together. Only those two notes (guitar playing) here that. Now, to rock it back and forth and give it, you know, a kind of vibe to it. I am going to take my 4th finger, now if you have not got too much experience playing the guitar it is going to be a little bit of stretch for you. One of the things that I am going to suggest is you will see a lot of guys, they have their thumb up here over the top while that may look cool it is pretty ineffective. You want to have your thumb, if you can see like this, about the middle of the neck, this way you can curve your hand under there and you are going to have plenty of room to make this stretch here. Now, if I were to do this, I could not even this, you see what I mean, nobody can, it is just not going to work. So keep your thumb kind of low like that and then were just going to kind of make a like C with our hand here, over the top here and you should have plenty of room (guitar playing) to stretch your pinky out to that 5th string 7th fret. So, for the 1st part of it are the one chord will sound like this (guitar playing). Now, the patterns are going to be exactly the same exact for we are going to move it down one string so as oppose to using the 6th and the 5th string, we are going to be using the 5th and the 4th string. So remember, we are just going to move everything down (guitar playing) and that is what we are going to be calling the four chord. Back up to the one chord (guitar playing). Now, the five chord is going to be the same as the four chord but it is up two frets (guitar playing), then back to the four chord (guitar playing), to the one chord (guitar continues playing). Back to the five chord. Okay, I am going to show that as one entire piece and then I am going to show it to you how you could move around the keys, okay. But first, the movable 12-chord pattern in the key (guitar playing) of G. (complete guitar playing key of G 12-chord pattern), okay. So, whatever key you wanted to play-in, this is the one chord, or the key note, or the root note here; so if you wanted to play in the key of G you would start here with this G note (guitar playing) and follow that pattern. Let us say, for example you wanted to play in the key of F, the 6th string 1st fret on the guitar (guitar playing together) that is F. We would follow that same pattern, the one chord (guitar playing), fourth chord (guitar continuous playing), back to the one chord (guitar continuous playing) see how that works (guitar continuous playing), back to the 4th chord (guitar continuous playing), back to the one chord (guitar continuous playing), to the five chord (guitar continuous playing), to the 4th chord (guitar continuous playing). On and resolve to the five (guitar playing ended). So, like I said anywhere you want to play this song the neck is cool you know. Here is B-flat (guitar playing), old Chuck Perry used to love that key. B-flat (guitar playing 12-chord pattern on B-flat). We are moving up and down the finger board, remember it is how ever you want it to be okay.
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