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Playing in the Key of E

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First a review… Common musical scales have 8 notes. Most popular songs, including worship songs are written using 4 chords that are built off of certain note numbers in these scales. Those note numbers are: 1, 4, 5, 6. Our little graphic now has 4 common guitar scales as examples, it looks like this: Note # 1 2 (minor) 3 4 5 6 (minor) 7 1 or 8 G scale G A B C D Em F# G D scale D E F# G A B C# D A scale A B C# D E F# G# A E scale E F# G# A B C#m D# E So when playing/chording songs in the key of E, the 1,4,5,6 chords are E, A, B, and C#m. I’ll give you two ways to play them.               E                                    A B                                     C#m                                                          E                                 A (Asus2)       B C#m
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G Fiddling Chords

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G Fiddling Chords As promised, here is the last instalment on chords in the key of G.         Plain G                                                Gmaj7 Gsus2                                                                                           G (to play with C/G)                                        C/G                                                                 C                                         Caug4     C6                                                                                    D                                             Dsus2   Dsus4                                                                                  
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Strumming (take II)

Strumming Reviewing what we’ve talked about regarding strumming so far (which really hasn’t been much), it looked like this: Simple strumming for most songs also goes to a count of eight down-strokes/strums. Accents (hard strums) are on counts 1, 4, and 7, like this: G                                                                                                                                   D/F# Name            a - bove               all names                                         You are 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 A A A A A A Em                                                                                                                                D Worthy                   of all                praise         and my Let’s break that down further, as remembering to accent strums on 1,4, and 7 while you’re ALSO t
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