Chord Melody in C Minor Lesson

- kaznie_NL22nd November 2008
  Thanks Pedja, nice use of chords as always!
- Kuba Szafran22nd November 2008
  Those chords sounds really great, thanks Pedja !
- Sinisa Cekic22nd November 2008
  Beautiful chord harmony ! Bravo Pedja
- Emir Hot22nd November 2008
  bravo Pedja. Extremelly useful stuff and beautiful progression. Well done
- Pedja Simovic22nd November 2008
  Thank you guys
- Ivan Milenkovic22nd November 2008
  Very cool progression good job
- Gerardo Siere22nd November 2008
  Nice song.
- Bogdan Radovic22nd November 2008
  Very nice lesson Pedja !
- Jose Mena22nd November 2008
  Great chord lesson Pedja
- Dejan Farkas22nd November 2008
  Nice stuff Pedja
- Nazgul22nd November 2008
  This is a fantastic sounding lesson, reminds me a little bit of church songs.
- Pedja Simovic22nd November 2008
  Thank you fellow instructors.
  
  Nazgul glad you liked the lesson. On purpose I choose straight rhythm to make it almost in style of baroque music.
  Let me know if you have any questions regarding chord voicings, and make sure to check out spoken video as well.
- Hisham Al-Sanea22nd November 2008
  great one Pedja.nice combination
- Trond Vold22nd November 2008
  Excellent Love the progression
- Pedja Simovic23rd November 2008
  Thanks guys glad you enjoyed it.
- Nemanja Filipovic23rd November 2008
  Beautiful chords mate.Job well done.
- Marcus Siepen25th November 2008
  very nice lesson
- Aleksander Sukovic13th December 2008
  Great job! I like the harmony! To, matori!
- Pedja Simovic13th December 2008
  Thanks guys

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- Tags: Chord Melody, C minor, Inversions, Open Chords, Closed Chords, Finger style
Hello GMC and welcome to my Chord melody in C minor style lesson.

In this lesson we are going to cover 3 really important and cool techniques for rhythm guitar:

1) Closed voicing
2) Open voicing
3) Inversions of chords

This lesson has all these things and on top of that you get to practice your finger style.

The key of this short piece is C natural minor. However, there are some passing chords and modal harmony applied trough out the piece. Feel free to have a go at soloing over this as well but only after you have captured chords and played it in time!

The rhythm in this piece is mostly half notes! This can remind you of some classical type rhythm. There are couple of parts when rhythm changes but that was done only to brake out of the same pattern trough out.

Study closely how both bass, middle and top melody move. This is known as counterpoint and we will tackle this topic in some future lessons!

Finally, use the guitar pro, chord graphs as well as backing tracks and videos to play this nice piece and try creating something of your own using those techniques.

This lesson uses:

- Finger picking
- Constant rhythm
- Counterpoint
- Closed voicing
- Open voicing
- Inversions of the chords etc

I recorded this lesson using my custom built guitar going trough POD X3 live using Thread plate clean patch.

I hope you found this lesson useful and I look forward hearing your takes on it!

Pedja