Beginner Acoustic Jam Track 15

Course: Fingerstyle Introduction, Minor keys and the A Minor Pentatonic Scale

In this video

Compound Time Beginners Jam Track. This lesson is from the Andy Guitar Beginner Guitar Course.

Welcome to the first Jam Track lesson of Level 8. We cover a few different things in this one:

  • Compound Time strumming pattern and progression - this is in 12/8

  • Slash chords featured in the progression

  • A Key change in this piece of music

  • Therefore, 2 distinct sections we can describe as Section A and Section B

Strumming options

  • D DUDU x 4 per chord

  • First finger strumming with the above pattern

  • Advanced option: pick the root note on the first Down (D) of the strumming pattern

Section A

C | C/B | Am7 | Fmaj7 (optional picked run down)

C | C/B | Am7 | Fmaj7

C | C/B | Am7 | Fmaj7

C | C/B | Am7 | C

Then, Section B

G | G/F# | Em7 | Cadd9

G | G/F# | Em7 | Cadd9

G | G/F# | Em7 | Cadd9

C | C/B | Am7 | D7

Key change song examples

  • The Beatles - I Wanna Hold Your Hand

  • Fleetwood Mac - Landslide

12/8 songs

  • Lover - Taylor Swift

  • Tennessee Whiskey - Chris Stapleton

Next Up: What You Need to Know About Minor Keys

Well done! Let's jump into the next lesson of the course.

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