Turn basic Guitar chords into cool song ideas
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2024
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One question I get asked all the time in lessons is: how do I take simple/boring chords and turn them into interesting ideas on guitar. Of course simple if often effective and if you've got an awesome voice/melody, open chords can work just fine. But if you're a bit bored and want to explore the fretboard more maybe give this a try?
There are so many different ways to write riffs/songs but I wanted to shed some light on how you might come up with what seems like a crazy idea from a very simple start.
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00:00 - Intro
00:17 - Initial Idea
00:39 - Lesson
07:42 - Final Thoughts 
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Man, this video is perfect. In terms of how you put it together. It's simple, but at the same time it contains a lot of great tips that can help players. Also the chill, *NO* hype-clapping-challenge-shouting-tits-promo-pushups form is really nice to watch, even while being tired after the whole day. Thanks!
Hey Johann, thanks for this. Yeah it was quite a chill video. I do get bored of shouting the same stuff to people 😂 but it does help with the stats. Glad you took something positive away from this though. I’ll be sharing more stuff like this. 🔥🔥
Great ending with the freezing brew. That's always the case when I take a hot beverage into
my practice session.
I seen a Bigfoot do the shoulder test in a movie Once, Sped.. I've been playing for 30 years. And you still come up with a video that opens up the "universe" for me, thank you. If I'm not laughing it's because I wasn't paying attention
Hahaha, I think I’ve seen the same movie. No other explanation? 😂 Thanks, so cool to hear you say that and I’m glad you find my stuff entertaining. 💪🏻
Only beautiful riffs....
Thank U !👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻👍🏻🤟
You’re welcome! Thanks for stopping by. 🙌🏻
Beautiful. Thanks Sped!
My pleasure Craig, glad you liked it.
Thanks for the tips, Sped.
Here's one in return on how to quickly hear stereo parts on any recording.
Open up a track (Say, Bowies 'Space Oddity') with VLC player. Then at the part = "This is ground control to major Tom..." right click and choose "Audio >Stereo mode>left channel" to hear David's harmony vocal in isolation -- it's fantastic!
Another good one is Paul Kossoff's double-tracked guitar riffs on the opening to "All Right Now" ... you can clearly hear the different variations Paul plays in the two parts.
PS
and of course it works better with headphones
Glad you like the tips. Yeah you can can do this in logic too. I often do this to get a better listen to parts when working them out. 👌🏻
Absolutely brilliant lesson. The best part is the shoulder example at the end. Perfect. Thank you a lot!
😂😂 Thanks Matthias! Glad you liked that bit. It is the deciding factor in whether a song idea gets trashed or not.
Absolutely amazing video Sped, absolutely love your work!
Ahhh I love this! Thank you. You inspire me with your kindness. 🙌🏻
Great content as always. Would love to see more videos like this.
I’m gonna make sure I put more stuff out like this for sure. 🙌🏻
Well, I must learn more about inversions! Thanks Sped!
Yeah there’s a full lesson on them and then even more on the tab. 🔥
This video was great. Your my favorite RUclips by far. Good quality video with good content... and you're really good a guitar
Thanks so much! That’s really nice and massively encouraging. I’ll make sure I keep releasing things of a similar style this year. 👌🏻
Sometimes it's nice to play around with inversions, as a break from playing music by other artists, so many avenues to explore and come up with our own licks, great lesson Sped.
Yeah exactly, glad you agree and find the video useful. I will be doing more stuff like this this year for sure.
Love this one, simple but effective. We've all had ideas and binned them as too obvious, not original enough, but this is a process to follow and bring out something you didn't know was there in the first place. A great incentive to download a DAW and start using it.
Nice to have the TAB and backing track available on Patreon.
Yesss! Love this Kit. That’s exactly what I was trying to get across with the vid and it works both ways. You can always take a simple idea and give it a new lease of life or break down the most complex things to simple chords.
...if been working on a few riffs and couldn't figure out how to develop them and know I have an idea on how to progress with the ideas Thank you Sir!
This is the perfect video for you then Cole. Let me know how it works out for you. 🔥
Ahhhhh Sped, thank you so much for this video. (And all of your others) Great approach. Definitely need to get some software for the puter and mess with this. Cheers!
You’re so welcome! Being able to sit and loop things with a pedal is great; but to see them on a screen/blank canvas and be able to layer and move things around. Change fx and eq etc… It really can bring things to life quickly.
That was awesome, I love seeing how to layer a song and definitely need to start practicing inversions. I had some lessons a couple of years ago and that was one of the very early things I was shown. I haven't really used them though.
I recently got EZdrummer 3 and they added a band mate feature where it will follow another instrument to come up with the drum part. Should be handy for doing stuff like this.
I hope to be making my own music that will pass the shoulder test one day 😎
Nice sounding Les Paul Sped !
Sped you make G C & D cool again. You crazy bastard.
This is an epic outcome! Let me know what you come up with! 🙌🏻
Great video mate as always. Made me want to write some new songs as I've lacked motivation lately
Mission complete! That’s amazing, have fun. 🙌🏻
Good lesson...good way to learn various chords / positions across the fretboard 👍💪
Yeah it is, glad you found it useful. Thanks.
this is the type of content that i need. great stuff
That’s awesome, glad you found it useful. 🙌🏻
Those inversions sounded so good man, you have a real knack for music and I realize I'm stating the brutally obvious here too ahah! Great lesson, thank you Sped 👍
😂 Brilliant mate, thank you! Yeah if anything, just adding that second part to something basic can take it so far away from where you started that if you treat that as your new starting point it just snowballs creatively.
smart new format. Upbeat. Like it. good info. Logic pro cycle region love
Thanks! Yeah I usually just keep my initial region small and keep it cycling around until something gives. It’s a blank canvas isn’t it. I only really tidy up at the end when I track for real. 👌🏻
Solid video Sped!
Cheers Ryley! ✨
Thanks for this, Sped. This was wonderful (tonight).
Hahaha thanks! It was. 🙌🏻😂
Great video brother!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Peace and blessings.
You’re welcome Victor! Hope you get something out of it.
Great content as always , thank you mate
You’re welcome as ever. Glad you liked this one too. Nice to change it up. Hope it catches on.
Great video sped also the shoulder test is great 😂
😂😂 it’s absolutely integral for future all demos now.
Always a great day when Sped drops a new video 😍
Got a lot of love for that. ❤️🍿
Hey mate, got a song lesson request. Whatever You Want! I know there's others out there, but your breakdowns are just awesome, and its such a bloody great riff! Goodonya cobber!
Thanks Sped 🎸
You’re welcome Keith!
great lesson as always
Thanks mate! 🙌🏻
That was so good, and I mean really good, clever txxt
Thank you Charles! I had fun pulling that together. It went from basic to bouncy. 😂🙌🏻
Good stuff man. Shoulder test is the biggest takeaway here
😂😂 it absolutely is. Should I rename the video? 💪🏻
@@SpedSpedding The Old Grey Shoulder Test. Introduced by Whispering Sped Spedding 🤣
Brilliant as per , thank you very much
You're very welcome, thanks for watching.
Well done, thanks!
My pleasure!
Yay new sped video!!!!! 😃
This kind of excitement gives me life. 🙏🏻
Just...wow. This was of a whole different sort of "how-to" video--it's as much inspirational as instructional. It honestly hit me totally different than most of the guitar videos out there. I'm probably at the late-beginner/early-intermediate stage of guitar playing, and this video was unique in its ability to make me think differently about the music-making process, as opposed to just learning "these 10 ZZ Top licks" or "5 Easy Blues Turnarounds" or whatever. Well done, Sped. Subscribed. Also, as Led Zeppelin would say...Thank You.
Amazing Dave, thanks for sharing that with me. I’ve been there myself, learning loads of licks and solos and not necessarily knowing what to do with them. Don’t worry though, you’re mastering technique, working on delivery. Videos like this will just keep a balance, show you how to use simple methods to elevate your own music and style. 👌🏻
Sped, I love the way you put this together. You showed me a concept that I have not really seen before. Could you please do more of this with putting a verse with a chorus? You really have some skill there. Again I sincerely appreciate your work!
Yeah I could try build this out into a full idea for sure. 😏🔥 Maybe make this the next video?
@@SpedSpedding Yes! Please you have talent in teaching. I am a sponge. I would like more!!!
Awesome video very interesting and inspiring
Thank you Cole! 💪🏻✨
Great lesson. I love inversions .. same notes but sound different. The pull-offs sounded cool to me.
Thanks! Glad you liked it; yeah I always gravitate towards smaller chord shapes over barre on guitar. Bass player can take care of all the roots. 🙌🏻✨
@@SpedSpedding Reminds me a bit of what Jimmy Page did with D'yer Maker. C Am F G. basic cords but tasty. Sod off! Haven't heard that in a long time. Thank you Sped.
Very interesting video. Thank you
You’re welcome Marc. 🔥
outstanding!!!! nothing else to say but thank you!!!
Thank you! Really appreciate that.
Very cool as always,
Thank you so much mate! 🙌🏻
Loved it! Got to remember the shoulders test from now on 🤣
Right?! If it doesn't pass then get it in the bin.
"So copyright police...you can sod off" ... I love those little comedic asides Sped !
Hahaha! I’m glad you like those little bits. They’re unplanned and just come out. I like to make sure there’s a bit of something in there for everyone. 🙌🏻🙌🏻
Here he is. Amazing video mate!
😂 I am here mate. Fried Chicken is definitely passing the shoulders test. ✨
wow must be awesome to have all that equipment to mess around wish i had the same hook up wow great work sped thank you
Thanks! Yeah it is. Rewind 6 years and I had no money, a beaten up white MacBook with no programs and I’d never shot or edited video before… never too late to start.
can you tell me what to start with please first think to buy please
sorry cat in lap cant type well
its a fun summer song
Maybe I should turn it into a full song for the next video?
Good stuff....as usual
Thanks!
The shoulders test was brilliant - obviously it's a joke but definitely something in it!
😂😂 yeah, I mean if it gets you and others moving it’s generally a good sign. I was just demonstrating two things… 1. How far we’d come from the initial idea. 2. I’m an idiot.
More sonorous Clapton a love sonnet
So just as the guitar is a bunch of stacking 3rds and 4ths and yada yada yada, one's own music can come from stacking ideas!
Here’s a famous example: Stack in Black.
Good stuff
Glad you think so. 🤘🏻
Good lesson. From simple chords to Avalon era Roxy Music vibes (that’s a compliment).
Oh yeah, that is a compliment! Thank you. Glad you liked it. ❤️
@@SpedSpedding oh yeah! I see what you did there. Touche
Sped, can you do “Bring it on home” lesson? Thank you
Muito bem explicado a sua aula .
"The Shoulders Test".. Great for major progressions. What's the test for minor progressions? Looking forward to that video as well. Cheers Sped!
Haha, I guess we’ll cross that bridge when we get there. I’ll make sure I’m filming a video on a sad day. The music speaks. 🙏🏻✨
Really great vid man. Got a sub from me
Brilliant
Thank you!
Nice , you is a cool dude 👍
Thanks Andrew! 🙌🏻
Let’s go!
The "shoulders test". I'll remember that.
😂😂😂 absolutely never forget to check.
Where can I download this feel good tune? It's stuck in my head now lol! That solo was on point too man. I mess with inversions a lot in my playing, but you definitely helped think more about applying them differently. Great vid!
It’s just a small idea, I did provide the backing track and tabs on my patreon for anyone who wanted to have a go. 🔥
@@SpedSpedding small ideas can have powerful impacts.
Brilliant! A Fan from Can...ada.
Ha, I like that John. 🇨🇦
Happy Belated Birthday. Mine’s the same day! 🎂🤪🎸🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶
Happy birthday!!
Brilliant mind.
Ah Harry, you’re too kind. 🙏🏻✨
Looks like I gotta learn triads now
Definitely do and have fun creating new ideas with them. Put them through the test… 🕺🏻
Nice dance moves mate....actually I’m not in a position to criticize I’ve seen video of my self playing kinda like having convulsions lol. I obviously write on guitar this helped out quite a bit. You can always learn something new. I tend to use partial chords. As far as a bass line something along the lines of D yer maker. Love the videos.
Haha, this dance is for comedic purposes only as opposed to busting on the dance floor. I’m glad you liked this video! 🙌🏻🔥
Once you hit the pulloff part, it def started to take on a Strokes feel.
Oh good, so it wasn’t just me then. I love how Albert and Nick play off each other. Their albums are full of so many special guitar moments. 🙏🏻
Only just come across your channel, have to ask....any relation to Chris Spedding the session player?
Hi Sped I really like the sound you get out of your guitar playing. You play from your heart not from your head. You know the theory but you’re not a robot like many guitar players. Do you have colour hearing (perfect pitch) and if so how many colours can you hear within the octave? Have you always been able to hear colours since you started playing guitar and can you hear colours on other instruments such as the piano? BW Tim Prosser
Hey Tim! Thanks for the comment and questions, appreciate that. I’m not perfect pitch. I’ve got good instincts but no way near perfect. My old music teacher at college was pitch perfect, you could mash your hands down on the piano and he’d read the notes back one by one.
I don’t have colour hearing either. Well not that I know of?
Perfect pitch is colour hearing. The word chromatic is Greek for coloured. The chromatic scale is The coloured scale. There are 12 colours.
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The inversion trick is great for jam sessions, too. What chord is he playing? What shape is she using? Okay then. Anything but that. Heads will turn. (If you're lucky someone will buy you a beer.)
Haha, there was a guy who always used to come see my old band play at the same venue on tour. He’d arrive early and watch soundcheck then buy us around. He was known as “Mr Beers.”
And yeah it is a useful tool in the jam bag. Packs out an idea harmonically, good for lead lines too.
That's great and I like.ure hair but love u2 do budgies bread fan.
Thank you Paul! I’m not familiar with that one, is it worth checking out?
@@SpedSpedding it a real forgotten gem.heavy Welsh 70s metal. Singers got a crazy voice and plays bass.Goes on a bit but it one of them songs that's got about 3 sections,worth checking out.
will you be giving us "Vocals" next time , Sped.....!!??
Good lord no. 😂 I’m not blessed with a singing voice.
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Thought you might like this one. 😂😂😂
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It was but now it's not. We're only 3 steps away from some fat Cheddar.