Play Guitar Through Hearing – Two Chord Tunes
When you’re learning how to play guitar by ear it’s helpful to use some easy to remember ideas that help relate the new material to something we already know, this is called connected learning.
Our western music system, is based on the European diatonic system, the consequences of this music system is not unlike the effect of gravity.
The ‘one’ chord is like our ‘musical’ sun, just as the sun has a powerful magnetic effect on the other planets in the solar system, our ‘one’ chord has a musical magnetic effect on the other chords, meaning each chord in a particular key wants to return ‘home’ to the ‘one’ chord.
This musical gravity idea will help us exactly predict the chord changes in a chunk of music, and will make the process of playing by ear an exceedingly easy task.
2 chord songs :
Now, we’re going to apply this new info to musical situations that will increase our capability to realise how musicians play by ear, without any written ( visual ) info.
2 chord songs reference chart : Key of C – Chord 1 = C / Chord 5 = G
Key of C – Chord 1 = C / Chord 5 = G
Key of Db – Chord 1 = Db / Chord 5 = Ab
Key of D – Chord 1 = D / Chord 5 = A
Key of D – Chord 1 = D / Chord 5 = A
Key of Eb – Chord 1 = Eb / Chord 5 = Bb
Key of E – Chord 1 = E / Chord 5 = B
Key of F – Chord 1 = F / Chord 5 = C
Key of F – Chord 1 = F / Chord 5 = C
Key of G – Chord 1 = G / Chord 5 = D
Key of G – Chord 1 = G / Chord 5 = D
Key of Ab – Chord 1 = Ab / Chord 5 = Eb
Key of A – Chord 1 = A / Chord 5 = E
Key of A – Chord 1 = A / Chord 5 = E
Key of Bb – Chord 1 = Bb / Chord 5 = F
Key of B – Chord 1 = B / Chord 5 = F
Here is a everyday eight bar, 2 chord song template in the key of ‘C’.
C/// C/// G/// G///
C/// C/// G/// C///
Get this progression off the paper and into your head, play this progression time after time until you own it!
This progression is the base for all of your ear coaching, understanding how this progression sounds and feels will turbo charge your capability to play guitar by ear.
Guitar Notes for Beginners: You can be playing your first song by fifth lesson – Guitar tabs for beginners.
