Gospel slides are a real sweet addition to your rhythm skills, don’t be too fussed about the theory rules, just use them because they sound great!

Ok, I know some of you are gong to ask.. so lets take a little look at the theory... just the basics, if you have not done Practical Music Theory this might not make much sense...

The first and most commonly used shape - shown as the first G9 grip below, from thickest string to thinnest contains the notes x x F A D x which is the x, x, b7, 9, 5, x... obviously the root and the 3rd are missing, but it sure spells a G9 chord. Now the shape moves up 2 frets (one tone) and we name all the notes we get x x G B E x, which is the x x R, 3, 6, x which is a G6 chord but missing the 5th. Hopefully you theory boffins are digging this - it’s kinda cool how one shape can be two different chords :)

The chord grips in this lesson are found below...

Video Lesson

Backing Track

Here is the Blues in G Backing track for you to practice with! I kept this one pretty straight so you can really work in those extended chords, and make sure you are using all the 7th chords we did in the last lesson too! It does use a "Quick Change" still, but that's the only sequence variation.

Blues Rhythm Track 7 by justinguitar

You can download the 13 track set of mp3's for this series for £5 (approx $8) (Blues Rhythm Guitar Mp3) - they are also included on the Blues Rhythm Guitar DVD for £15 (approx $25) of this series which comes 3 bonus lessons (44 minutes worth!) and a pdf booklet.

Chart

Extras

So many many chords... so little time :)

 

 

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