How to Fingerpick C Major Chords

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So, each chord kind of has notes that sound good added to it and ones that don't sound so good added on to it. So I just want to kind of go through some of the basic chords and look at kind of notes that work and notes that don't. You know a lot of country blues is played in a major scale. So a lot of the notes you add are just going to be kind of within kind of the major scale of the chord structure. So, for example, if I'm going to play a G chord, you know you can add this note here on the B string here. You can also add this one, also on the B string. So those are two good ones to add to a progression in G. So like, and then you can also add, well let's see, a standard G chord will have kind of that one there. But you could, if you wanted to pop in the seventh note, which is right here, that kind of gives it real kind of more of a melancholy blues sound like, there it is. I mean theoretically you could throw in any of these notes. But there are ones that sound better than others, you know. Also within a G, I like to kind of put in, kind of this one here. It's on the G string right there. So I like to put that one in sometimes. So, you know, if you just kind of pick wisely. Pick and choose which notes you want to introduce then. You know you can kind of then combine those and I'm just going to stay within the key of G and just kind of add some of those different notes, you know.

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