I don’t recognise any of this progressions, but because I have been learning the simple version of the house of the rising sun, I just applied the same strumming 6/8 on the last 2 of this progressions: C, Am, F, G and Dm, G, C, Am (actually I played F,G,C,Am and Dm, G, C, Am) and I just spent almost 2h jamming like crazy alone until my fingers started falling lol. I would never imagined the F and Dm would sound so similar but with a different “urgency in the feeling”.
My god this is so fun.
I was just seeing a real on Instagram without sound and notice the guy was doing a part of this progression. I saw Dm / G / C / Am with some embellishments in the transitions. When I turned the sound on it was the initial riff of the Don’t Cry from Guns & Roses.
I played drums in garage bands early on. I’d generally get the feel of what the other instruments were playing, or wanted to play, and drum accordingly, that is, the drums would follow the music instead of the other way around. I think that’s how songs come about; the music is written and the drums added to coincide with the music.
Welcome Jared! @Fast-Eddie’s comment is good. One other thing to consider is your guitar. Has your guitar been set up for use by a beginning player? If yes, you can probably ignore the rest of what I’ll write. If not and if you are able, it’s worth taking your guitar to a reputable local tech, repair shop, or luthier. Many acoustic guitars come with 12-gauge strings; I played 10s when I started and play 11s after three years. Lower gauge strings typically have less tension when tuned, making them easier to depress. Also, the tech/repair person/luthier can adjust the action - the distance the strings are from the fretboard. If the action is high, again it’s more difficult to depress the strings cleanly.
There’s tons of advice on playing the F chord on this Community. If you haven’t, you might start by reviewing this topic. Then you can use the search function to focus in on specifics. I promise, you’re in good company!
While you’re here, consider heading over to the Introduce Yourself topic and tell us a bit about your guitar journey!
Another good lesson here. My question is this… I understand these chords are in the key of C because they fit in the C Major scale… where an Octave of the C major scale would be…
C D E F G A B C
However, how do we know from this that chords such as Am would be in this key, rather than the A major chord? Or Em vs E Major for example? I can tell that the numbers assigned to these chords are based on their number in the C Major scale, in consecutive order. Thus it makes sense that Bdim would come next as he said… but still not sure why it would be a Bdim chord vs a B major
All major scales fall under the same chord pattern M, m, m, M, M, m, Dim. Starting with the root(1) of the scale the C major scale chords are C, Dm, Em, F, G, Am, Bdim.
You partly answered the question . The diatonic chords of a key are called diatonic because they contain only notes from the given scale. E.g. the diatonic chords of C major contain only natural notes - no sharps or flats whatsoever.
So if you already know that triads (3-note chords) are built in thirds (root - 3rd - 5th) and you’re familiar with the major scale formula, you will know that a particular chord is a major, minor, diminished or augmented triad (although augmented triads are not diatonic in this sense).
I know AI is more of a threat this days but this is what happened to me tonight as I was playing the chord progression Dm, G, C, Am from the lesson in module 10.
As I was playing, it became pretty obvious to me that I already heard that in a song and thought it was Youssou N’Dour. So I asked Chatgpt if it knew a song with that chord progression on an acoustic guitar from an African artist and guess what… At the second attempt it told me it was Ismael Lo - Tabajone
So I immediately launched YouTube and to my surprise it was exactly what I was playing a few minutes ago…
Even complete beginners can sometimes have great rewarding moments
I can not say I haven’t enjoyed the lessom, but my F Chord is not as good enough to change to it in a reasonable speed. I can change between the others quite OK, but changint to F still is a big challenge. Would this mean, I should not proceed here and lear F chord until I can change to it OK ?
If not and if you are able, it’s worth taking your guitar to a reputable local tech, repair shop, or luthier. Many acoustic guitars come with 12-gauge strings; I played 10s when I started and play 11s after three years. Lower gauge strings typically have less tension when tuned, making them easier to depress. Also, the tech/repair person/luthier can adjust the action - the distance the strings are from the fretboard. If the action is high, again it’s more difficult to depress the strings cleanly.
