Another thing too that should not be overlooked.
A while back there was a post about being able to "hum" it.I'm not sure if Griff started the post but this was what Griff had said, in fact it was his Dad that said it to Griff,
" [glow=yellow,2,300]if you can hum it, you can play it [/glow]"
Obviously you need to know the chords etc to do so in the 1st place.Once you know them then its a matter of putting them together - simple right ? :-/ Humming it whilst playing reinforces in our minds what it is we are trying to accomplish & our hands/fingers adapt to meet the requirements necessary.With that in mind I think that we perhaps start with as minimal chord change as possible (economy of movement) and the obvious choice here is open E & open A (dom7ths or minors could be used just as well) and taking a riff/tune (the most popular strum - LP's classic E,A,B7 12 bar :
)
but just using the E & A ( 1st/tonic & the 4th ) & playing that - don't forget to hum now
back & forth then as we feel more comfortable & its coming along we can add the next chord in the progression or in the case of a 12 bar play it all the way though, humming merrily along.
Once this is achieved to the level you are happy with we can then move on to other chord shapes utilising the same principle - I'm sounding like a
bonafide egghead here ;D
Humming btw can also be substituted with " Dah,Dah, Dah'ing" or "Doo,Doo,Doo'ing" or "La,Laa,Laah'ing"
Keep that in mind & give it a try , I've got a headache now from all this egghead speak
LP
