Open Chord Tricks! Americana chord study guitar lesson. Elevate basic chords to fancy new levels!

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Open chords; an often over-looked art-form. The beautiful, natural sustain and the ability to allow notes to easily ring against each other with a bell-like quality is something we should harness and learn to use if we want to be truly great lead guitar players.
When you’re not soloing, you’ll be accompanying.. often playing over a rhythm guitarist who will be strumming chords.. so your job is to provide contrast and texture. Arpeggiating your way through some luxurious open chord voicings with added extensions and substitutions is one of the greatest ways of doing so.
These things are a powerful tool for any genre, but today we’re focusing on a kind of pop-Americana style as our training ground.
So, this is a lesson in elevated rhythm playing and creating tasteful, sonic landscapes and textures that complement the song and compel the listener.

Lesson materials will also include my backing track.


And as always, stick around til the end for gear talk and recommended listening ????????

⏱️TIMESTAMPS⏱️

00:00 - Performance
01:30 - Introduction
02:40 - "A" section breakdown
07:40 - Patreon
08:20 - “A” section summary
09:00 - “B” section breakdown
09:22 - Augmented thoughts
17:05 - “B” section summary
17:49 - “C” section breakdown
23:50 - “C” section summary
24:31 - Playing Philosophy
25:20 - Recommended Listening

Videos related to this lesson..

Americana Soul lead study;
https://youtu.be/dslvtwpCvk0

Motown & Soul doublestops & tricks;
https://youtu.be/x6PFaGEXhLA

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Gear used in this video;
Karl Longbottom Guitars T16 hollow
Emprize Falcon Reverb amp
Jam Pedals Harmonious Monk (tremolo pedal)
Universal Audio OX - amp top box
Universal Audio Apollo Twin X
Logic Pro
Universal Audio plugins

Sony ZVE-10 camera
Neewer Desktop Tripod
Final Cut Pro

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Alex

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