Do your guitar chords sound DEAD?

For those of us who play guitar to write songs (and if you don't, what are you waiting for?) many times our chords can sound rather DEAD. Here, Andrew from Guitar5Day.com shows us how with a couple of simple adjustments, we can make our chords come ALIVE.

He was nice enough to also put together a short video (for SongwritingTipsOnline readers). A massive thanks to Andrew.

If we're nice to him (hint hint... post a nice comment in the comments section below :-) then I'm sure we'll get some more cool stuff from him.

Take it away Andrew.....





One of my favorite and easiest things to do is taking a simple hammer on and making open chords come alive.

I have prepared a short video lesson for you.

What I am talking about is using the open chords C major, F Major and G major and simply hammering with the second finger.

Here is a tab that will give you an idea of what I mean: The only thing you do is take your 2nd finger off the string and then put it back on. Play with it.

e[]------------------[]
B[]----1--1--1-------[]
G[]----0--0--0-------[]
D[]----2--0--2-------[]
A[]----3--3--3-------[]
E[]------------------[]

The Exercise would look like this:

e[]-------------------------------[]
B[]----1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--[]
G[]-------------------------------[]
D[]----2--0--2--0--2--0--2--0--2--[]
A[]----3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--[]
E[]-------------------------------[]