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Cosmin Lupu27th February 2014Thanks for the comment mate
Ricky926th February 2014Thanks!!!! Great lesson.
Jerry Arcidiacono12th October 2008You're welcome
Sentenced12th October 2008Ah ok i see your point, thanks.
- Jerry Arcidiacono11th October 2008
Hi Sentenced. Playing quarter notes - I think these are the "places" that you wrote - there's no need to keep the movement for playing sixteenth notes. At least, this works well for me at this speed. But if you want, you can move your hand up and down also for the longest notes, if you feel more comfortable.
- Sentenced11th October 2008
I have a question according to the strumming, i thought its best to have your struming hand going all the time up and down and hitting the strings when needed so you have a steady up and down going. But you seem to break free from this structure at some places, why?
Matt233rd August 2008Great lesson Jerry.
Open string chords sound so great.- Jerry Arcidiacono23rd June 2008
Hi johsk, maybe this lesson
https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/misc-less...ords-strumming/
could help you to understand how strumming patterns work. 
joshk22nd June 2008hey it would be nice to have it a little longer so you can have some examples of the strumming even slower...or just have the up down strumming written out...for us not so good players
Carlos Carrillo18th March 2008great job and fantastic lesson!!!
thanks
Danilo Capezzuto26th February 2008Fresh progression.
- Jerry Arcidiacono29th December 2007
Hey Slash Jr,
thanks for your post.
So, do you mean single notes?
Check this out:
http://www2.guitarmasterclass.net/rhythm-g...ings-strumming/ - Slash Jr29th December 2007
sorry i was thinking about how many open chords there were, what i meant to say is can u add some singles next time
- Slash Jr29th December 2007
jammer91: all of the nylon lessons can be done on steel, nylons a bit easier for fingerpicking, but that shouldn't stop you.
Babe I'm gonna leave you - led zeppelin
Great lesson Jerry. Could u use more open chords next time? 
Wolff2nd November 2007Cool stuff
- Jerry Arcidiacono2nd November 2007
jammer91: Sure! I will do acoustic lessons, using chords and single notes combined.
jammer9127th October 2007I have a similar yamaha acoustic i just bought few months back (think its the same one it was like $200).
Im not really sure how to use my acoustic properly. I like this lesson a lot and there are some few other good acoustic lessons too (but theyre all finder picking to be played on a nylon string).
Could you come up with more lessons for steel string (using chords and single notes combined)?
Thanks
Jenkinson8th September 2007That sounded execellent.. I think everyone would appreciate more acoustic chord progressions. Simple to pick up and fun to play! Makes for a nice distinction between what should be played on an acoustic and an electric.
- Jerry Arcidiacono3rd September 2007
Jeffrey: I don't know Barenaked Ladies.. I will listen to this tune.
I learn a lot of new songs, teaching here! :| - Jeffrey3rd September 2007
This is great! I loved it i will learn to asap! also, you should do a lesson on the techique used in the song Crazy by Barenaked Ladies. it looks... well it looks crazy lol
- Jerry Arcidiacono1st September 2007
FretDancer69: I schedule this one and I will make it as soon as possible.
- FretDancer691st September 2007
Hey Jerry, do you think you could do a lesson on using Arpeggios that sound good with this chord progression? Great lesson btw
- Street Musician22nd August 2007
A very fun lesson indeed!
- Jerry Arcidiacono20th August 2007
Arrivederci a presto (some like see you soon) Eat-Sleep-andJam!! :-)
Eat-Sleep-andJam20th August 2007Well without the backing track I can play it perfectly, you know what that means, Back to the drawing board - Arriverdici, John
- Eat-Sleep-andJam20th August 2007
Yeah Pacman is has a Dave Matthews vibe
Jerry youve done it again ! Im working on this , your other funky groove lessons and some alternate picking stuff
Bravo - John - FretDancer6918th August 2007
ahh sounds very nice...i really needed this lesson to improve my acoustic playing! Thanks jerry!
- Jerry Arcidiacono17th August 2007
Uhm... I don't know this song, right now.
I will listen to it. 
PacmanProductions18th August 2007that reminds me alot of dave matthew's Crash Into Me, the intro...
- betschart18th August 2007
I like
Gabriel Leopardi17th August 2007Nice chords! Good work Jerry!
- Jerry Arcidiacono17th August 2007
Thank you, guys!
The guitar is a Yamaha FGX-412.
It's not an expensive guitar, but it's sound good. 
Francis Viviers17th August 2007I think thats a cort. But it sounds to nice for a cort
The Uncreator17th August 2007Excellent!
GuitarDude17th August 2007sounds great!
Muris Varajic17th August 2007Cool chord progression Jerry,well done!!
timono17th August 2007wow, sounds really cool
Hemlok17th August 2007Awesome, I needed this, I only fingerpick at the moment because I can't strum to save my bum.
Good Lesson, What guitar is that may I ask?
- Lesson
- My notes
Hello GMC people,
in this lesson I'll try to explain some rhythms and chords on acoustic guitar. First of all, I hope this lesson will be useful also for beginners.
I made a Guitar Pro file. Here you can find the chords with fingerings. The focus in this lesson is to learn how the same chord shape work over the neck. For example, in the first measure, we use a power chord shape. If we extend it with the other strings (open) we can obtain three different chords:
E5 (7th position), Bsus4 (2nd position) and C#m7 (4th position).
I suggest you listen to "The Silent Man" and "Solitary Shell" of Dream Theater.
In these songs John Petrucci use this type of chords.
Key: E major
Time signature: 4/4
Tempo: 100 bpm
Have fun!
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