Hey everybody. Welcome to the Guitar Tricks YouTube Channel. I'm Lisa McCormick, your guest host for this week.
Let’s start with the quick tip of the week. And this tip of the week has to do with one of my favorite stockings stuff for guitar players. This is a string winder. String winder is a spinney little toy that does 2 important things for guitar players. First, if you're changing your strings then you want to avoid all that tedious cranking. Just get a string winder. Bam! Look how fast that went. Now it’s loose. Same thing with tightening the strings back up. You got your new string in there. It’s all loose and floppy. Quick crank at the string winder and its up. The other nifty thing about a string winder is this little notch at the other end. When you're changing your strings, you also have to pull this end pins out once you’ve loosen the string. And sometimes the end pins can be kind of stuck in there. And so the little notch hooks right around the end pin. You pry it right out of there safely.
And now on to today’s lesson which is all about jazzing up your Jingle Bells. I can't believe I just said that. now we’re going to start with a simple version of Jingle Bells using 3 chords, G, C, and D. and were going to see what happens when we jazz them up a little bit. But let’s get started with the basic version. So I'm going to go through it very quickly here but there's a full lesson on this on the guitar tricks site. So if you need to catch up with us on the basic chords go on over there and check out the Jingle Bells lesson.
Meanwhile, here’s what we’re going to do. Start on G chord [singing], go to a C chord [singing], back to G [singing] to D [singing] to G [singing] to C [singing] back to G [singing] to D [singing] and G. okay, so that’s our base line version.
Now the first adjustment were going to make is going from a G major chord to a G major 7 chord. And the way I'm going to do that is to change this note right here to the 2nd fret of the 1st string. And I'm going to have to change the way I finger the chord to accommodate that. These notes are the same as they were in the G chord. And this is called G major 7th. See how kind of jazzy and loungy that is.
The next substitution we’re going to do couldn’t be easier. I'm starting here with a C major chord. And I'm going to take this note out of it. That’s it. Now we have a C major 7. And finally, we’ll replace our regular D major chords with a D7 chord. So now we have G major 7, C major 7, and D7.
Now you don’t have to reserve these chord substitutions for Jingle Bells. You could use it in practically any songs that uses those same chords. And it will really change up the flavor. To show you what I mean, I'm going to need to adjust to a little bit of mood lighting. I’ll be right back.
[Singing] Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way. Oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh. Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way. Oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh. I say oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh.
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