This techniques opens up for a new style of riffing.

A folk song with 6/8 offbeat rhythm.

Alternate picked open chords with focus on constant "let ring" notes. This lesson is designed to teach writing complex chord formulas.

Let's talk about strumming. If you have a pattern of 16th notes, normally you play this pattern using downstrokes upstrokes alternately. You can remove some of these movements and you have a new pattern!

Gabriel Leopardi presents a rhythm lesson in the style of Poison, Motley Crue, AC/DC, Buckcherry and many other hard/glam rock bands. This lesson is suited for beginner/intermediate players.

Let's play chords using only two fingers. Thanks to the open strings, they will sound more complex than they are.

Typical 80's rock style riffing in combination with open strings and E blues scale.

Use of open chords in key of A and key of Am.

When we refer to open chords, we usually thinks to the basic positions played by beginners on the first three frets, to start learning guitars. They are a mixture of fretted notes and open notes, that's way open chords. The same concept can be applied to any chords creatively, building beautiful sounding new shapes.