This lesson teaches you how to play power chords and a few tricks to make them sound like a professional.
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Palm Muting
This video teaches you what palm muting is and how it is used.
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Muting Techniques
Below are two videos that teaches you left and right hand muting techniques.
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Right Hand Techniques
Below are two videos that give out tips for your right hand.
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Somebody to Love - Valerie June
This song is originally played with a banjo-ukulele (banjolele) which is tuned just like a ukulele, but looks like a banjo. The chords and strumming pattern are fairly simple, but don't forget to put a capo on fret 1.
Somebody to Love - Valerie June Lead Sheet
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The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
This song is fairly easy. The bass approaches the chords and does a few octaves. It's a good song to improvise and try out different things, as long as you keep the drive and that you hit the root note of the chord on the first beat of every measure.
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The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
This song is fairly easy. There are two different chord progressions: Verse & Chorus. They repeat different amount of times for each section, so pay attention to the number of repeats. Other than that, it's fairly straight forward.
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Dni Ktorych Nie Znamy - Marek Gretchuta
This song is folk/country which means that on the guitar, you alternate from root to fifth on every beat. In between the beats, you play high strings. Other than that, be aware of the D.C. (Da Capo) with repeat which takes you back to the beginning of the song.
Dni Ktorych Nie Znamy - Marek Gretchuta
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Life is Beautiful - Keb' Mo'
This song is very interesting, as it is country, but it incorporates jazz chords, making it quite original. It is also a feel good song. When playing this song, you can either alternate the bass line with your thumb from root to fifth, or you can stay on the root. Keb' Mo' himself doesn't always play it the same way. So, you can pluck away and have fun with hammer ons and pull offs. What is really important is to keep the chord progression. The form is simple, you go through the whole thing three times with a slight variation at the end of each form, so watch for the boxes 1 & 2. There are two main guitar figures, one at the intro, the other at the outro. They are variations of each other.
Life is Beautiful - Keb' Mo' Chord Chart
Guitar Figure 1
Guitar Figure 2
Life is Beautiful - Keb' Mo' Lead Sheet P1
Life is Beautiful - Keb' Mo' Lead Sheet P.2
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Rocky Racoon - The Beatles
The sound of the piano and the instrumentation of the song are typical of honky-tonk/country songs . There is no ukulele in this song, but you can play it anyway. The double time feel doesn't affect the ukulele, but adds energy to the song. Other than that, the song is the same thing throughout except for the intro.
Rocky Racoon - The Beatles Ukulele Chords
Rocky Racoon - The Beatles
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Green Eyes - Coldplay
This song is a nice country/pop ballad. Three sections that repeat and finish with an outro. The guitar has a capo on fret 2 and the strumming is in 8th note swing feel. The band starts at the pre-chorus after the D.C. (Da Capo)
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Green Eyes - Coldplay
This song is pretty simple. There are three sections played twice and the song finishes with an outro. Be aware of the D.C. (Da Capo) which repeats the whole song from the beginning with repeats. Also, this song is played in an 8th note swing feel.
Green Eyes - Coldplay Ukulele Lead Sheet
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Green Eyes - Coldplay
This song is pretty simple. The bass doesn't come in until after the D.C. (Da Capo) and it plays the classic country bass line which is to alternate between playing the root and fifth of each chord.
Green Eyes - Coldplay Lead Sheet
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The Bird Song - Florence and the Machine
This song is a little bit tricky to play, because the whole song is ad lib, meaning that there is no fixed tempo like most songs. You need to listen to the singer to follow the tempo of the song. During the full band parts, the rhythm is a bit more constant. The p or pp (piano or pianissimo) mean that you play soft or softer and the f or ff (forte or fortissimo) mean that you play loud or louder.
The Bird Song - Florence and the Machine Lead Sheet
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A Place Called Home - P J Harvey
This song is very ambient, so the guitar does mostly sixteenth notes the whole song with slight accents to emphasize the drums beat. Just be aware of the Da Capo (D.C.) with repeat.
A Place Called Home - P J Harvey Lead Sheet
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Rocky Racoon - The Beatles
The sound of the piano and the instrumentation of the song are typical of honky-tonk/country songs . The guitar part is pretty simple once you are comfortable with the chords. The double time feel doesn't affect the guitar, but adds energy to the song. Other than that, the song is the same thing throughout except for the intro.
Rocky Racoon - The Beatles Lead Sheet
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Je suis une Pizza
This song called Je suis une Pizza is a great song to play with two people. The top page is the melody of the song which is repeated throughout the song and the bottom page is the chords that are played behind the melody.
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Castle on the Hill - Ed Sheeran
This song is pretty simple, as it uses four chords in different progressions to create the four sections of the song: Verse, Pre-Chorus, Chorus and Bridge. In the studio version of the song, the chords in the verse and chorus are anticipated, but in the acoustic version the chords are changed on the first beat of the measures. Other than that, be aware of the DS with repeat after the first chorus and the box 2.
Castle on the Hill - Ed Sheeran Lead Sheet
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When I Come Around - Green Day
This song is pretty simple. There are two parts in the song: Verse and Chorus. The difficult part of the song is the rhythm in the Intro, Verse and Chorus. The 16th notes are played with open strings; they are only used as a transition between the chords. So, if you have a hard time with the rhythm below, you can simply disregard the 16th notes. The only important thing is to play the anticipation of the chord of B5.
I believe that Green Day plays this song with their guitars tunes in Eb standard, which means that the solo during the bridge would be played a little bit differently, but the notes are the same.
When I Come Around - Green Day Lead Sheet
When I Come Around - Green Day Guitar Solo
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Castle on the Hill - Ed Sheeran
This song is pretty simple, as it uses four chords in different progressions to create the four sections of the song: Verse, Pre-Chorus, Chorus and Bridge. In the acoustic version of the song, Ed Sheeran uses these four chords below. The Bm is played as a Bm7, as it is an easier transition then using the barre chord shape of Bm. The other main difference between the recorded song and the acoustic version is that in the recording the chords in the verse and chorus are anticipated, but in the acoustic version the chords are changed on the first beat of the measures. Other than that, be aware of the DS with repeat after the first chorus and the box 2.
Ed Sheehan - Castle on the Hill Chords
Castle on the Hill - Ed Sheeran Lead Sheet
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