Saturday, January 25, 2014

Know the chords - substitute chord? passing chord?

Getting bored of repeating Major and minor chords? Let's try to substitute the chords and add some colour and flavour by arrange in passing chord!!

Before you start, make sure:

  • you have some basic understanding about interval. For turorial about interval please visit here.
  • grab a guitar and play the chord, I want you to remember the "sound, texture and colour" of the chord instead of the dull theory

* I only show 1 chord for your example (but not showing all of the different position) so you can capture the colour and sound of the chord, so please do feel free to check othe material such as chord dictionary to find various combination and position of chords.

** The chords I listed here are mostly suitable for strumming, if you are more likely to play them in a plucking way, I will made another article discussing about the pattern and tips for plucking, which will comes more complicate because of walking melody. Anyway, you just have to get the idea of the structure of chord progression.

Are you ready?

只会弹奏大调和小调和弦?来看看替换和弦和经过和弦吧!!用得好的话它能为单调的编曲加上色彩还能够减轻手指的负担哦!!这篇文章要告诉你,其实我们平时弹流行曲遇到的好像很复杂的和弦,其实都是经过加工的大调和小调和弦而已哦!!

开始之前,确保你对“音程度数”有些微的了解(想温习的童鞋们请到这里);并随手抱着一把吉他,即刻试弹来感受被替换后的和弦的色彩!!


Friday, January 10, 2014

张智霖 - 相爱无梦

张智霖 - 相爱无梦 key: D > E capo 2, play as C key
Guitar: Stonebridge GS40CM
String: Gibson Masterbuilt Premium Light (012~053) 



很好听的一首《相爱无梦》,送给想爱却爱不到的苦情郎(娘) 们。

verse的部分,那些滑音勾音捶音的pattern,因为是低音弦,捶音的时候因为和上一个音太过接近,所以声音很难出的来,勾音因为弦粗也勾得手疼,滑音杂音又很大声,大家就自己斟酌着去放吧。






張智霖

相愛無夢

Tvb劇集'西關大少'主題曲
作詞:藍奕邦
作曲:林健華

跟你抱著 未等於愛上
不再抱著 未等於不想
你我在這分鐘
說過無緣再見
下秒鐘再湊巧碰上

即使一起 貌合卻又神離
分隔兩地 日夜掛著愁眉
再各自結新歡
卻暗地拿你去比較現有的
始終偏袒你

有心愛你卻愛不到
抱緊了你卻又未想終老
再等到與對方失散以後
就會知 原來誰最好
愛不到至會更想愛
抱緊了你我又無心裝載
我跟你也破不到
男與女之間 愛情的定數

一個過活 恨抱著情人
一對過活 又掛念誰人
到了話要分開
你我尚有惻隱
又再探聽對方新聞

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Interval & Chord Progression

Must work harder recently editing all my tutorial and materials, so I can start to arrange my own syllabus in guitar tutoring, wish me good luck !!

最近想编我自己的吉他教案,得加把劲把脑海里的资料整理出来,大家为我打气吧!

Introduction


I believe you've got some idea about INTERVAL on my last tutorial (see here), now you know how to construct some fancy pattern boombastic chord using the formula provided once you set the root
note. In this tutorial, we will talk about the relationship between interval and  chord progression.

This session is trying to help you to understand the colour and feeling of a chord when it appears in certain timing of a song. This idea also helps you to train your relative pitch!! (Discussion about Perfect Pitch and Relative Pitch see here, but don't click yet, I haven't compose that, hahaha)

相信看完之前那一篇的朋友对音程度数已经有一些概念了。现在我们已经可以在定出根音后用音程度数的概念来编出和弦了,今天我们就来讨论音程度数和和弦进行之间的关系。希望这篇文章能帮助大家了解和弦在歌曲中出现时他所带有的色彩和感觉。使用音程度数的概念来扒曲子能训练你的相对音感哦!


What is Chord Progression?

Explain in the most simple way word and method, chord progression is the route that chord appear in a song. 

We already know to set the root to find the interval, today, we are going to start by setting the root first too, but some idea is different:
  • the root of finding a chord will be the "bass note" of that chord (of course we start with the lowest tone), 
  • the root of understanding chord progression will be the playing key, or I just simply call it the Root Chord here, ex: in C key, the root will be C Major chord; in E key, the root will be E Major chord.
ok we still start with the most basic one, we start with C key. Normally in a song they won't be all Major chord, it will mix in some minor too, but do you know all these minor chords stands in a specific position in the interval too?

Let's see this graph (see figure 1), I put in the most common chord to be use in recent pop songs.

什么是和弦进行?用最简单的方式来讲,就是和弦进行的方式,简单明了易懂吧?

我们已经知道要开始使用音程度数时得知道你的根音在哪里,今天我们也得先定好我们的根音,但有些概念时和建构和弦时不一样的:
  • 建构和弦时的根音指的是找出和弦中最低的音。
  • 找出和弦进行时所谓的根音指的是曲调中的第一个和弦,或者说是根和弦(注:这只是为方便大家了解提出的一个概念,并不是专业术语),如C调的根就是C大调和弦;E调的根就是E大调和弦。
一样先从最基本C调开始:通常一首歌曲不会全都是大调和弦,间中也会混入小调和弦,你们知道这些小调和弦在和弦进行中也是占有特定位置的吗?见figure 1,这些是流行歌曲常会用到的一些和弦。

figure 1

Sunday, December 8, 2013

Interval & Chord

Introduction

As the foundation of the foundation of music (my own opinion), interval is a very important concept that applied in Scale, Chord and Chord progession. Thanks to the explanation of Mr Ben Powell, I get to have a clearer understand to this music theory, I'm here sharing this with you guys.

(我自己一个人自己认为),作为基础中的基础,音程度数是在音阶、和弦以及和弦进行中很重要的一个概念。之前遇到了在英国巴斯镇的一位高人指点让我一下子贯通了这个苦恼我很多年的概念,现在分享给大家。


Ben Powell, A very talented fingerstyle player and tutor based in Bath, UK, link to his website.

Interval 

What is interval? Basically speaking, it's the distance between music note and note, and each distance had been granted a name.

A most important idea to understand the concept of interval is to understand it with the NUMBERS above it, not the note itself

Today, we are all starting with the root note"C". As in C Major key, we all know the note are as following (see figure 1):

今天我们就来简单的解释一下音程度数,还有音程度数在建构和弦上的应用。

什么是音程度数叻?简单来讲,就是音符与音符之间的距离的名称。要了解音程度数的概念,我们得用数字来了解,而不是音符的唱名,所以接下你会看到很多数字,这也是为了方便,当你有了“数字”的概念以后,你就能把音程度数的概念应用到每一个曲调中,而不会被单一曲调限制。


把根音定在最常用的“C"音符开始。见figure 1,我们可以看到在C大调音阶中出现的音阶。

figure 1

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Broken Stonebridge

acknowledgement: I want to sent my grateful to Ben Powell, David Mead, Jonny Kinkade and every acoustic folks that gave me advices, concern and all the support they gave to help me sort this case out, MANY THANKS!!!

I've bought a Stonebridge GS40CM for my christmas last year, but when i receive it, the headstock is broken!!! I've sent it to repair and it was perfectly fixed, here's some photo about this fantastic instrument.

How it is broken, you can see that even the truss rod is snapped out from the neck, omgodness my poor little stonebridge how did the courier treated you...
i guess this is how they handle my parcel. (according to the seller, the courier is Ctilink, and they don't seems like giving any compensation until now, so brace yourself if you need their service.......)
 

And it is well repaired, here's a photo with my Washburn Dreadnought


Friday, December 28, 2012

Unboxing - KOTAOR OSHIO 10th Anniversary BEST

Just receive my <KOTARO OSHIO 10th Anniversary BEST> album, here's a little unboxing info.

I've bought from a Korean seller, so it came with the original Japanese album, with a paper of Korean translation, neither do these I could understand :( the saddest thing... anyway, here's the unboxing review.

Album front


Friday, December 7, 2012

Harp & Guitar

Randomly saw somebody said that she want to learn harp, but the instrument and the course cost a bomb.

So I heard you like harp?


And you like guitar....

Why not both?


And what if I told you, you don't really need a harp to sound harp?

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Andres Godoy

Mumbling your finger tip hurt when you practice? Can't reach certain fret with short finger? Some of the arrangement is impossible? When you want to give up learning guitar, think of those who play with their passion and their soul.

Andres Godoy

Andres Godoy, musician, guitarist, songwriter, Musical producer, cultural manager, was born in San Antonio (Port), Chile. At age 10 his grandparents Manuel and Maria gave him his first guitar. From there he had tutors with whom he learned many different styles and techniques of popular and classical guitar.

At 14, Andres had an accident in which lost all of his right arm. But through the passion, imagination, perseverance, creativity and 
daily practice, so Andres invented a technique for self taught guitar in one hand and sequences based on series of strokes, percussion, pulls, scrapes, strumming with which was creating rhythms, harmonies, songs, music. This technique named it Tatap. But Tatap is only an instrument of the spirit of passion, imagination, endless and unwavering love for the music of Andres, the beauty, harmony.
His compositions incorporate various influences, world music, folk, rock, classical, Fingerstyle.
website: here



Saturday, November 17, 2012

戴佩妮 - 怎样

戴佩妮 - 怎样 key: D, capo 2: play as C key

Guitar: Washburn WD-42S
String: Gibson Masterbuilt Premium Light (012~053)


初学编曲的时候弄的




Sunday, July 22, 2012

棉花糖 - 再见王子 chord 和弦谱

棉花糖 - 再见王子 chord 和弦谱 

作词:庄鹃瑛 / 沈圣哲 作曲:沈圣哲

Original Key:F# 
Playing Key: E   (Capo:2)

Intro: E | B | C#m | G#m | A | B | E  Esus4 | E  Esus4 |

Verse 1
||E                        | B     |
那個夏天 燦爛耀眼. Q: D9 q& b/ V# E5 J
                |C#m               | G#m   |
忽然之間 下雨也沒人撐傘
|A                  |B          | E   Esus4 | E   Esus4 |
是我的初戀 那次失眠【最新吉他譜】自學電吉他、木吉他、古典吉他、貝斯的園地【線上購買吉他,網路買吉他首選】, \# C( ]5 }% @( E! K: i
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|E                        | B    |
你的氣味 已經飄散
                |C#m               | G#m  |
我還留戀 心裡面共同的聲線
|A              |B          | E   Esus4 | E   Esus4 |
你微笑的臉 好久不見
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gita.idv.tw$ @9 P8 A  D0 x+ [
| C#m                | G#m   |
時間過了幾年 長大了一些小新 吉他 吉他譜 吉它 結它 音樂教室 電吉他 學吉他 貝斯 蘆洲 小新的吉他館! y- j4 N: G, ?8 g
| A                        | B     |
心中的那個王子 要說再見


Chorus 1
吉他論壇(小新的吉他館-吉他論壇)0 T9 p$ g* ]8 V, b
| E                       | B                          |
再見吧我的王子 守護愛情的樣子小新 吉他 吉他譜 吉它 結它 音樂教室 電吉他 學吉他 貝斯 蘆洲 小新的吉他館2 t$ }- `7 g' n, m" R9 l
| C#m                | G#m              |
讓回憶紀念最初感動的真實
| A                     | E              |
滿口永遠的孩子 慢慢懂事小新 吉他 吉他譜 吉它 結它 音樂教室 電吉他 學吉他 貝斯 蘆洲 小新的吉他館, m" J; U$ g, g
| F#m                 | B            |
用眼淚灌溉會幸福的種子
吉他論壇(小新的吉他館-吉他論壇)" U4 b5 ?# [4 N: a
| E                       | B                          |
再見吧我的王子 夢想還沒有消失
| C#m                | G#m              |
我會併著你的勇氣一起堅持
| A                     | E              |
曬著艷陽的奔馳 勾勾手指
| F#m                 | B            | E    Esus4 | E   Esus4 |
你住的城市會有我的 思念因子 

Verse 2
|E                        | B     |



吉他論壇(小新的吉他館-吉他論壇)! A. T/ o9 Y1 C# j6 I/后来我们各自旅行 
                |C#m               | G#m   |
哪些风景 最让人容易沈迷
|A                  |B          | E   Esus4 | E   Esus4 |
最近常下雨 但会天晴

| C#m                | G#m   |
时间过了几年 长大了一些
| A                        | B     |
心中的那个王子 要说再见




Chorus 2
吉他論壇(小新的吉他館-吉他論壇)0 T9 p$ g* ]8 V, b
| E                       | B                          |
再见吧我的王子 守护爱情的样子
| C#m                | G#m              |
让回忆纪念最初感动的真实
| A                     | E              |
满口永远的孩子慢慢懂事
| F#m                 | B            |
用眼泪灌溉会幸福的种子
| C#m                  | B                       |
再见吧我的王子 梦想还没有消失
| C#m     B  A | G#m             |
我会并著你的勇气一起坚持
| A                       | E      C#m     B |
晒着艳阳的奔驰 勾勾手指
| A                 | B            | E           | B    |
你住的城市会有我的 思念因子
     | C#m            | G#m     |
围绕着你 围绕着你 

| A | B | E  Esus4 | E  Esus4 | E   ||



Friday, April 27, 2012

Tiesto - To Forever

Rachael Starr - To Forever (Tiesto) key: Cm, capo 3: play as Am key

Guitar: Washburn WD-42S
String: Martin Acoustic SP Medium (013~056)

It is hard to play trance with an acoustic guitar, but an acoustic guitar can play trance song.


Tuesday, March 27, 2012

untitled - end of March 2012

Too much things to learn, too less time to practice
Too old to complain, too young to die

Saturday, March 24, 2012

郭静 - 看见 chord 和弦谱

郭静 - 看见 chord 和弦谱 

Key:G

Intro: G | D/F# | Em | C  D  | x2

Verse 1
     |  G                         | D/F#    |
在這一瞬間 我看見城市的黑暗面
  | Em                       | Bm     |
但我不卑微 就算世界充滿虛偽
       | C            | D    |
想說的因挫折膽怯
        | Bm        |Em    |
可是我無所謂
        | C                      | D    |
我相信 有顆星 永不墬

Verse 2
     |  G                         | D/F#    |
但這是機會 是考驗我還無法分辨
  | Em                       | Bm    |
我勇敢面對 朝著光向前不後退
       | C            | D    |
不在為害怕而哽咽
        | Bm        |Em    |
現在我才發現
        | C                      | D    |
才體會 你離我 不遙遠

Chorus 1
| C         | D         | Bm             | Em    |
有你的包圍 我能再堅強一點
| C         | D         | G             | G7    |
有你的安慰 悲傷全消失不見
| C         | D         | Bm             | Em    |
沒有淚水 就能少了一些厭倦
        | C                    | D     |
都因為有你 我才看得見 (我的完美 最后一次重复时不唱)

G | D/F# | Em | C  D  |G

Repeat Verse 2

Chorus 2
| C         | D         | Bm             | Em    |
有你的撫慰 我能再確定一點
| C         | D         | G             | G7    |
有你的一切 感覺到你在我身邊
| C         | D         | Bm             | Em    |
多麼耀眼 不再迷惘真實絕對
        | C                     |
都因為有你
   | D     |
我才看得見 我的完美

G | D/F# | Em | C  D  |G

Repeat Chorus 1 & 2

 G | D/F# | Em | C  D  |G     | Gmaj7

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

魏如萱 - 一时 chord 和弦谱

魏如萱 – 一时 chord 和弦谱

Capo:2    Playing Key:G

Intro: G+

Verse 1
|Cmaj7   |C7/F# | Cmaj7   |C7/F# |
一時 迷失 紅綠燈都停止
|Cmaj7   |C7/F# |Cmaj7 |Dm  |
接二連三颱風 叫人放肆

Chorus 1
|G                |Bm       |Am           |C   |D   |
四分五裂的禁止 七上八下的心事
|G                |A                |Bm   |E   |
扮林黛玉 扮愛麗絲 扮小王子
|C             |D           |G                        |Fmaj7
我 只不過是你的零食 /哼/

Verse 2
|Cmaj7   |C7/F# | Cmaj7   |C7/F# |
一時 遺失 回家的地址
|Cmaj7   |C7/F# |Cmaj7 |Dm  |
還得三番兩次 說謊來掩飾 /累死/

Chorus 2
|G                |Bm       |Am           |C   |D   |
幾首歌在說我們 幾段隱藏版情史
|G                |A                |Bm   |E   |
快樂過一時 痛苦一時 一時相思
|C             |D           |G                        |Fmaj7
說完我愛你 一起消失

Outro Chorus
|G                |Bm       |Am           |C   |D   |
四分五裂的禁止 七上八下的心事
|G                |A                |Bm   |E   |
扮林黛玉 扮愛麗絲 扮小王子
|C             |D           |G                        |Fmaj7
我 只不過是你的零食 /哼/
|G                |Bm       |Am           |C   |D   |
幾首歌在說我們 幾段隱藏版情史
|G                |A                |Bm   |E   |
快樂過一時 痛苦一時 一時相思
|C             |D           |G                      
說完我愛你 一起消失



Saturday, March 10, 2012

Capo Capo~~

Just loiter online to search for some things, and accidentally saw so MANY CAPOssss!!!

How many capo do you know?

In the beginning of your guitar learning journey, your teacher will usually persuadeyou to buy this, because it is cheap, and easy carrying:

Dunlop Advanced Toggle Action GuitarCapo


Basic Strumming Pattern


The difference of strumming and plucking is plucking just sound a few specific strings while strumming is to let several strings sound simultaneously. Once you have know a few chords, here's a practice for you to practice the changing of the chord of your left hand with strumming. Just practice with C Major Key and A Minor Key. Strum by plectrum or finger.

Play according to tempo, increase speed slowly. Accent notes are not crucial at this moment.

Part A, B, C are to show the direction of your right hand. Basically you just have to swing your hand, up and down, and decide which beat you want the guitar to sound. I separated into 2 parts, while the right part I used a tie note to show the beat, as you can see, all the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th beat is down, and 2nd, 4th, 6th and 8th is up.

Part D, E should be played by differentiate the bass strings (4th , 5th, 6th strings) and treble strings (1st, 2nd, 3rd strings).

Part F is a slapping technique, just slap your hand onto the string to let it hit on the fret and create the slapping sound.

Part G is a triplets rhythm.

当你学会左手按和弦之后,就能开始这个扫弦练习,根据节拍慢慢加快速度。用弹片或者手指来扫。这个时候加重音还不是那么重要,能够弹出的话也很好。

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Right Hand Practice 1

Everyday exercise for your right hand. This practice is use to train a player to be familiar to his right hand position.just repeatedly play each part.

Part D need to use your right middle finger and ring finger to pluck the string at the same time, and Part E need to use your right index finger and middle finger to pluck the string at the same time.

这练习旨在让右手熟悉每一只手指的位置。重复的弹奏每一段即可。

Part D 和 Part E会用到两根手指同时拨弦。



relax your left hand, do not move your right hand, only move your finger.

左手基本上可放松。右手,只移动各手指,手腕以上的部分不要移动,保持放松,手指尽量不要有太大的动作。

以后只要左手加入和弦,这些就是最基本的伴奏手法啦~~

Left Hand Practice 1


For beginner, just use your right thumb to play every notes.

Part A is just Fret Climbing practice, just use every finger to play it.

Part B is a variation of C Major Scale, this exercise doesn't need your left little finger, just make sure you use left index finger to play all the 1st fret, middle finger to play all the 2nd fret, 3rd finger to play all the 3rd fret.

Part A 就是传说中的爬格子啦!!
练习的要诀是每一个音都能衔接的很顺畅,速度由慢至快。着重在练手力,所以速度保持匀速就行。

Part B是简易的C大调音阶,这里不需要用到左手尾指。练习要诀是用食指按第一品、中指按第二品、无名指按第三品。着重在让左手熟悉位置。

全部用右手拇指拨弦即可,熟悉了的话可用各手指或拨片弹奏。




Ignore the humming. Can also play with plectrum or all fingers of your right hand.

视频Part A我把左手食指伸上去只是为了灭掉恼人的humming,可无视这个动作。练习时要注意姆指的位置。

Restring an Acoustic Guitar

I always saw guitar rookie asking about restring guitar on forum, are you lazy or what? Can't even finish such an easy task? you should learn to DIY!!!

I restring my Washburn with Gibson Masterbuilt Premium 012. As the action of this guitar is very low, 012 is recommended. Not suggested to string 012 if your guitar is not good enough as it will give too much tension to the neck, and too much pressure to your finger. Normally 010 or 011 is OK.

And it is suggested to change all the string together instead on just changing only 1 or 2 of the string, because after days of playing the tension of the string change, and changing several string affect the balancing of the tone.

here it start:

Step 1: Take off all the string

First of all, take off all the strings. It is not always recommended to do this because once every string is took off and put back again it give extra tension to the neck which is a harm. But there's reason to do this today, tell you later.



Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Kotaro Oshio - 雨上がり

Kotaro Oshio - 雨上がり(standard tuning ver)key: E♭ , capo 3 / capo 1 + Dropped D partial capo 3 on 1~5 string play as C key

Guitar: Washburn WD-42S
String: Gibson Masterbuilt Premium Light (012~053)


A song composed by Kotaro Oshio and featured in his latest album Hand to Hand. Like this song so much, but couldn't find the original score at all, try to arrange i myself.

I play this with a 5 string partial capo which the 6 string will be D, you can just play with capo 3 and play the 4th string as D.

for DIY a partial capo see here

这首曲子一听就爱上了!!!!但苦苦寻觅不到原谱(alternate tuning: E♭B♭E♭A♭B♭E♭),自己爬了个标准调弦的。这里用了一个五弦的Dropped D partial capo,好让Dm7这个和弦能够得到更低的bass。选用partial capo的话,Em这个和弦就会变得比较难按,在这首曲子选用partial capo是因为频繁出现的Dm7和弦。





谱子刚扒出来错误有点多,视频只为给个概念,有兴趣要弹的朋友自己照着谱子即兴一下吧~

切音的部分用attack mute来弹奏会更有节奏感哦!!!喜欢这首曲子里使用到的Gaugmented(321003 Gaug / G+)和弦,在C key里尝试加入这个和弦有不一样的效果哦!!可当做G之后的G7来用。

弹奏此曲或许您需要以下技巧:
Attack Mute:弯曲右手中指与无名指,然后用指甲敲打2、3弦。与一般切音不同的是,此种切音法能够保持着bass。
T.H.:Tapping Harmonic,用右手食指与指板呈90°的方式打在有泛音的品格之上。
A.H.:Artificial Harmonic,左手按弦的同时,右手用食指点在泛音格上同时用无名指(或食指)勾弦。

E♭ key,capo 3 / capo 1 + 5 string partial capo 3 on 1~5 string, play 6 string as bass of chord Dm7