Red Hot Chili peppers Under The Bridge Guitar Lesson Video

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Red Hot Chili peppers Under The Bridge Guitar Lesson

Red Hot Chili peppers Under The Bridge Guitar Lesson Under the bridge, Red Hot Chili Peppers, the song I’d like to have students work on. Its got some really interesting things, some kind of unusual unique free form kind of stuff and a really unusual chord shape. People normally learn bar chords from the E family and the A family, bars that are shaped like you’re A, a bar shaped with and E will of course be an F sharp chord. If I make it shape like E minor, by taking off my second finger it would make it F sharp minor, we have the A shapes where I either got three fingers on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th strings along with the bar or one finger flattened out. But there are other shapes and Under the Bridge opens up with one that a lot of people have a lot of trouble with in the very beginning, it’s the C shape. So what you need to do here is play a C chord, got that so far, plays a C chord and switches your fingers now so you’re not using your first finger. Your 2nd, 3rd, and 4th fingers, now that already probably feels a little but uncomfortable. Now it gets worse, slide that up a step so you have your C shape at the 3rd, 4th and 5th frets and when you strum that now it will sound like this. You don’t actually need the full bar there, you could get away with three strands, I don’t know if that’s any easier, but in any case that’s the shape that we need to get the voicing that happens in Under the Bridge. And you can really pick out the notes in any kind of random order. Now the original recording had a little over dub with a hammer and stuff up there that doesn’t happen when it gets played live by one guy as you may have noticed. So that’s not part what I would cover in the lesson on Under the Bridge. Anyway what we have is this D chord with some random picking but if you got the chord on, you could hear—the notes almost go in any order then a little descending bass line from C sharp to B on the 5th string to A to the 5th fret of the 6th string to G sharp on the 4th fret to an F sharp chord in the E shape that I was just talking about. So that’s a little bit of what happens in the beginning of Under the Bridge. I’m thinking about putting together a complete lesson on this over at totallyguitars.com and a lot of way we decide on lesson that happen over there is we have a section where people can recommend a lesson and people can vote on it whether it something they would like to do or like to see or not and the songs get a lot of votes are ones we put under the pipeline to get lessons up on. This song has a lot of Jimmy Hendrix kind of sound but its basically normal bar chords and likes to get into all that on how that works and how that fancy fills that happen. It’s a great tune and again I like to have a lot of my students work on this, so other stuff at totally guitars, we got a forum where people ask questions, answer questions, talk about gear, talk about guitars, talk about techniques, talk about theory, its great and then there is a community area where people get in and have other discussions. Even a live chat area and of course the recommend a lesson area, so if you’d like to see a lesson on Under the Bridge or any of the other hundreds of lesson that we already have there. There’s enough to keep people busy for a couple of lifetimes, anyway come check us out at totallyguitars.com.

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Red Hot Chili peppers Under The Bridge Guitar Lesson

Under the bridge, Red Hot Chili Peppers, the song I’d like to have students work on. Its got some really interesting things, some kind of unusual unique free form kind of stuff and a really unusual chord shape. People normally learn bar chords from the E family and the A family, bars that are shaped like you’re A, a bar shaped with and E will of course be an F sharp chord. If I make it shape like E minor, by taking off my second finger it would make it F sharp minor, we have the A shapes where I either got three fingers on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th strings along with the bar or one finger flattened out. But there are other shapes and Under the Bridge opens up with one that a lot of people have a lot of trouble with in the very beginning, it’s the C shape.

So what you need to do here is play a C chord, got that so far, plays a C chord and switches your fingers now so you’re not using your first finger. Your 2nd, 3rd, and 4th fingers, now that already probably feels a little but uncomfortable. Now it gets worse, slide that up a step so you have your C shape at the 3rd, 4th and 5th frets and when you strum that now it will sound like this. You don’t actually need the full bar there, you could get away with three strands, I don’t know if that’s any easier, but in any case that’s the shape that we need to get the voicing that happens in Under the Bridge. And you can really pick out the notes in any kind of random order. Now the original recording had a little over dub with a hammer and stuff up there that doesn’t happen when it gets played live by one guy as you may have noticed.

So that’s not part what I would cover in the lesson on Under the Bridge. Anyway what we have is this D chord with some random picking but if you got the chord on, you could hear—the notes almost go in any order then a little descending bass line from C sharp to B on the 5th string to A to the 5th fret of the 6th string to G sharp on the 4th fret to an F sharp chord in the E shape that I was just talking about. So that’s a little bit of what happens in the beginning of Under the Bridge. I’m thinking about putting together a complete lesson on this over at totallyguitars.com and a lot of way we decide on lesson that happen over there is we have a section where people can recommend a lesson and people can vote on it whether it something they would like to do or like to see or not and the songs get a lot of votes are ones we put under the pipeline to get lessons up on.

This song has a lot of Jimmy Hendrix kind of sound but its basically normal bar chords and likes to get into all that on how that works and how that fancy fills that happen. It’s a great tune and again I like to have a lot of my students work on this, so other stuff at totally guitars, we got a forum where people ask questions, answer questions, talk about gear, talk about guitars, talk about techniques, talk about theory, its great and then there is a community area where people get in and have other discussions. Even a live chat area and of course the recommend a lesson area, so if you’d like to see a lesson on Under the Bridge or any of the other hundreds of lesson that we already have there. There’s enough to keep people busy for a couple of lifetimes, anyway come check us out at totallyguitars.com.

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