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What are the four basic chords?

The chord progression consists of four basic chords: C major (chord symbol ""C"") G major (chord symbol ""G"") A minor (chord symbol ""Am"") F major (chord symbol ""F"")

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In the following tutorial, you'll see how you can play these four piano chords with your left hand. Take 15-20 minutes to memorize the chords until you can play them effortlessly. The chord symbols in the sheets will help you commit them to memory. Before moving on to the next step, make sure you can play the chords with your left hand without having to look at the keys. Practice the four basic chords in your left hand with this tutorial until you can play them "blindly"

Tutorial 1: Bob Marley - No Woman No Cry

If you can play the four basic chords with your left hand, you're already halfway there. Now it's time to add the melody with your right hand. In the following video, you can see how to play the world-famous melody from Bob Marley's "No Woman No Cry" with your right hand while playing the basic chords in the left hand.

Video: How to play "No Woman No Cry" with four chords

Note: In this song you will play each chord twice. The order of the chords is the same..

Tutorial 2: Céline Dion – My Heart Will Go On (Titanic)

This world-famous melody from the film "Titanic" can also be accompanied with the four basic chords. Amazing, isn't it? In the following video you will learn how to play the melody of the song to the chords.

Video: How to play "My Heart Will Go On" with four chords

Tutorial 3: Alphaville – Forever Young

The chorus of this world hit from the 80s is also played with the same progression of chords. In the following video you can see how it works.

Video: How to play "Forever Young" with four chords

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Why do guitarists make faces?

Us guitarists, when ploughing raw emotion into a solo, are really just frustrated singers. Trying to express yourself without using your voice or indeed the lyrical content to convey the emotion of what you are singing about is naturally going to be expressed elsewhere; in your body and, moreover, your face.

It might be considered that, despite the reasons above, players have always adopted the famous guitar face for the benefit of their audience. It is true that we all pull our best grimaces when performing! Perhaps it is the heightened emotion state of live performance, the additional concentration and pressure to get things right, or simply the need to entertain by showing the audience that you are truly lost in the music, which gets us squashy cheeked and baring our teeth. A bit like the old question - ‘Does a falling tree make a noise if nobody is around to hear it?’; do players affect guitar faces when they aren’t being watched? The chances are you and many players are unaware if you are doing ‘guitar face’ when playing alone. Yes, you can fake this, but it so easy to spot when a guitarist is not pulling a genuine guitar face. The tell is easy - the face doesn’t match the emotion or playing! Kinda like watching non guitarists play ‘air guitar’ - instantly mimicking those big lick guitar faces, unconvincingly.

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