From the course: Acoustic Guitar Lessons: 2 Scales, Walking Bass, Hammer-Ons, and Pull-Offs

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Chord theory: Part 2

Chord theory: Part 2

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Chord theory: Part 2

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- The next thing we're gonna cover in talking about intervals and basic building blocks of chords, are how actual, you know, we've discovered early in about strumming, different strumming patterns, and talked about connecting chords, and the boom chuck pattern. Just gonna get in a little bit of the theory behind that. And this is an important thing, I think every bluegrass rhythm player should know. And we talked about how a basic chord, a major chord, is the root and the third and the fifth. So when you're applying that same kind of thinking to chord changes, if you're playing a song now in the key of G, and the fourth degree of the G scale is the C. And so you can make the whole chord there. So, in what we're gonna call jam speak here, and this is something I think we're sort of gonna commit to from here on out, we'll always name the chords themselves. But the basic theory and the sort of language, inner language behind that, is referring to G, C, and D. If you're in the key of G…

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