Mike here from killerguitartips.com

Here’s another mini guitar lesson as promised, to give you a help in hand with your guitar playing

This week I have a nice little chord change for you that crops up in many, many songs. You’ll find it’s really effective but does assume you have some understanding of playing the guitar. If you find it a little too much there’s no need to panic as my full course (due to be released shortly) covers every aspect from an absolute beginner through to monster guitar players.

Just keep this tip for future reference and once you get to the level to be able to play this phrase simply pull it out of your bag of tricks that you will be building up over the coming weeks.

Ok, give this a whirl:

Playing an ‘A major’ chord in the open position using your 1st,2nd and 3rd finger play one bar all downstrokes and on the beat.

We now lift off your 3rd finger to reveal the open B string (the chord is called Asus2) and play one bar.

Then using your 4th finger hold down the ‘B string’ at the 3rd fret (1st and 2nd finger remain unchanged at the second fret throughout this piece) and play one bar (this chord is called Asus4). Finally finish off with one bar of ‘Amajor’ to complete this four bar sequence.

Following on from above before I sign off for this week let’s have a look at a cool little trick you can use to create cool sounding chords easily by using open strings within chords.

Ok follow me… We are going to play an A major (A) chord with a difference… The fingerings are: 4th string 7th fret with your 3rd finger….3rd string 6th fret 2nd finger and 2nd string 5th fret 1st finger and 1st string is played open this chord is an A major (A). OK now strum one bar….

Move this shape down two frets keeping the 1st string open and play a bar (G6)…

Now play a Dsus2 chord ..Fingering: 4th string open -3rd string 2nd fret first finger – 2nd string 3rd fret 3rd finger and again 1st string open, play one bar.

And finally play an (A) major chord in the open position that is..5th string open – 4th,3rd and 2nd string are played at the second fret with fingers 1,2,3 and the 1st string is …you guessed it open.

Now if you want a great chord progression that sounds great on its own, play one or two bars of each chord numerous times. It’s a great progression to solo over and superb for writing your own songs.

Hope you enjoyed it this week, until next time, Keep practicing…

Warmest regards Mike

About The Author: Mike Jones is a Professional Guitar Tutor. Offering Guitar Lessons geared to bringing the beginner through to an accomplished player in the shortest possible time, using unique speed learning techniques developed over 20 years of teaching and playing guitar as a professional. To find out more about Mike’s teaching methods and to get FREE tips and tricks each week visit his website at: Guitar Course