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Beginner Chords 2 Online - Free! Hard Copy (CD) - $10 + postage All files on hard copy are .wmv for devices such as Windows Media Player Australian Postage Overseas Postage Total running time approx 1 hour 40 mins Video 1 – Bass Picking For the first video of this next series on chords, Ben guides you through a cool new right hand technique to add interest to you playing. Video 2 – Country Style Bass Picking In this video, Ben shows you a cool variation on the 12 Bar Blues in G with some country inspired bass picking to get your right hand working! Video 3 – F major 7 Chord For those of you who have tried to play the F chord, you’ll know how hard it is. Ben shows you the F major 7 chord to give your hands a break from playing F for a while. There is also a cool chord progression to go with it. Video 4 – D minor chord This lovely somber chord is coupled with some right hand bass picking. Video 5 – Arpeggio Picking Arpeggio picking sounds complicated, but it’s just another technique we can use with our right hand to add interest to your chords Video 6 – Bass picking and Arpeggios combined! This isn’t as tricky as it sounds, but it adds even more interest to arpeggios. Video 7 – G7 Chord Ben looks at a cool version of the 12 Bar Blues in C with the chords C, G7 and F major 7! Video 8 – Use of a capo Using a capo is pretty straight forward, but Ben shows you here how to adjust your chords if you’re playing with another instrument or with a guitar without a capo. For more information check out the theory sections. Video 9 – A7 and E7 chords Ben adds some more interest to the standard 12 Bar Blues covered in Beginner Chords 1 with these hip A7 and E7 chords! Video 10 – Strumming and Arpeggios combined! This technique is one of Ben’s favourite techniques (along with lots of other players) to bring your chords to life! Video 11 – C7 chord This hip C7 chord is used here in 2 chord progressions. Video 12 – Right Hand Percussive Mute Did you want to become a drummer instead of a guitarist but you weren’t allowed to buy one because of the noise? If so, Ben looks at a cool percussive technique to add some punch to your strumming! Video 13 – More Percussive Mutes! Ben looks at applying some mutes into the classic rhythms we covered in Beginner Chords 1. Video 14 – B7 chord Ben takes you through the B7 chord in this lesson – take it slowly because B7 is a tricky four-fingered chord. The chord is played in a progression with bass picking and percussive mutes. Video 15 – Play Along Series Ben quickly recaps what we’ve covered in the course so far and introduces the ‘Play Along Series’ in the next six videos! Video 16 – Pop rock groove Ben plays a classic pop rock style chord progression here with percussive muting. Video 17 – The return of bass picking This chord progression really comes to life when we put some bass picking into it. Heaps of songs and styles use this technique heaps! Video 18 – Passing bass notes This video has an awesome idea used heaps in country music. Although this example isn’t country, it shows you the possibilities of this technique. Video 19 – Left Hand Workout 1 Ben plays heaps of chords in this left hand work out (6 chords) to really see if you’ve learnt all the chords well! Video 20 – More 12 Bar Blues This funky 12 Bar Blues pattern uses some cool 7th chord variations to really spice it up! Video 21 – Left Hand Workout 2 This is probably the hardest progression so far, with little pivot fingers and a fast strum. Good luck! It uses the chords A, Am, G, C, Fmajor7, Dm, D and E7. Video 22 – Congratulations Congrats on completing this Beginner Chords 2 video series! Keep having fun and playing with as many people as you can!

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