Hi all, I’m in the beginning steps of learning guitar. hands are very broken in, chords sound good, I know a few from 1st to 5th but I wanted a better understand of the progressions.
if it better to follow c, d , e, e# etc… or c, g, a? or would it depend on the music? I’m focusing heavy on bluegrass. Doc Watson is a big focus for my end style, or Billy strings.
i currently practice/play about 4 hours a day 7 days a week. (a lot I know) my focus is flat picking and finger style mostly rather then traditional strumming.
does any.one have and good guides or books I should read up on for how to do good proper cord progressions? even a simple info graphic that is easily understandable for a beginner?
I’m focusing mostly right now on chord runs. C is memorized and working on getting some others that can meld with the c run.
I read online that you can incorporate shifts like V-I at the end of a bar, and usage of I-vi and II-V are common in your genre. For C major, this means:
G-C C-Gm D-G
Source
And here is a simple guide on why the Roman numerals and what they mean. You have to apply the number in the sequence to the correct note and then correspond it to a chord. Lowercase for minor chords.
Good luck!
thank you, I’ll read up on it. the Roman numerals threw me for a loop which is when I make this post.