Play Guitar By Hearing – Two Chord Song Themes
We have seen how two chord songs templates help us play guitar by ear when we are working our children’s songs, we’ve also applied this concept to classical music. This is just the tip of the musical iceberg, the more you Practice and apply the eight bar two chord song templates mixtures we have studied so far many more songs will are evoked.
As we dilate our study of 2 chord songs to include country music we are going to notice how a variation our early eight bar template can link an easy children’s song to a number one country music hit song. Did you know you might use the same two chord, 8 bar song template for both these songs?
Hang Down Your Head Tom Dooley and Billy Ray Cyrus’s “Achy Breaky Heart” use the same harmonic background, naturally the tunes of these two songs are dissimilar.
Here is our 3rd 2 chord template :
| C/// | C/// | C/// | G/// |
| G/// | G/// | G/// | C/// |
and the mathematical code for this progression is …
| 1/// | 1/// | 1/// | 5/// |
| 5/// | 5/// | 5/// | 1/// |
Realizing the similarities in the chord progressions will be a great help if you are playing at a party and somebody requests Achy Breaky Heart, it also underlines the signification of practicing and studying the children’s tunes.
I am sure you have heard the phrase “that hits a chord with me”. Really that’s what will be beginning to occur for you …chords and even complete chord progressions will begin to “connect”.
Guitarists who play by ear have mastered this vital capability of “connected learning”, by associating new material with something that they already know they can remember and recall this information quickly and exactingly. Our studies up to this point have been prohibited to songs that use the eight bar modules repeated for the duration of the whole Piece.
Many songs use two chord, eight bar modules as a part of the song,the following 8 bar module would work for the verse of Roy Orbison’s hit song ‘Blue Bayou’.
| C/// | C/// | G/// | G/// |
| G/// | G/// | C/// | C/// |
Side note : Blue Bayou’s verse is comprised of sixteen bar so you want to play the eight bar module thru twice.
Try and work out this progression in other keys, the formula is :
| 1/// | 1/// | 5/// | 5/// |
| 5/// | 5/// | 1/// | 1/// |
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