#48 – Jam the G D Em C Chord Progression
Jamming is fun, but can be hard to do. Starting with a familiar chord progression can help. Here, I show you some ideas of how to take the G D Em C progression and apply strumming, fingerpicking, and embellishment ideas to it.
To make things simpler you can break this chord progression down into chunks, e.g. G-D or Em-C. Most of all, try this without putting any pressure on yourself, keep coming back to it, and enjoy!
Excellent exercise. One of the things I like best about looping or jamming on he same progression is that my “mistakes” sometimes create new embellishments I wouldn’t have thought of …finger on a different fret, hammer on in the”wrong” spot, fingerpick the wrong string and all of a sudden I have a new wrinkle
Yeah, that is a good benefit of repeating the same thing over and over. Nice little progression with options to experiment in different ways on each chord too. 🙂
This challenge is perfect timing for me. I am getting much more comfortable with finger picking so strumming, picking, and embellishments is exactly where I am at…. great exercise! Ok that was an akward sentence but you know whay I mean. 👍
Ace work, Nancy! It is not easy to do but really cool that you can do strumming, picking, and embellishments with it. Lots of fun. For everyone else, keep trying it, it takes practice as Nancy says but you will get it. 🙂
lol just to be transparent and clear, I am getting better at the three but still pretty choppy, working on being more fluid. Just the fact that I can actually understand and somewhat execute it all together is exciting. (don’t want others to think I am better than I really am…. I watch the videos people post on the 101 FaceBook page and they inspire me!)
Play this classic jam with a metronome at 50bpm and play each chord 4 beats in a bar. Then speed up the metronome by 10bpm until you cannot keep up with the tempo.
I like the idea, and a great way to get “progressive overload”