If You Ever Get Asked to Play Something Just Do THIS!

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Have you ever had someone come around where you live, (your home or your apartment), and as soon as they spotted your guitar - they said to you, “Hey, you play guitar... Play me something!

Well, in situations like that a guitarist who is at the Beginner or Intermediate level will often feel like they are being put on the spot. So, how can this be dealt with prep in advance to ensure that you’re comfortable and you do not chicken out?

In order to better navigate these types of awkward situations I’ve got a great way for any level guitar player to not only be able to quickly & easily play something, but to be able to play some nice music that sounds great.
The idea I’m going to show you in this lesson is based upon the drone concept and it uses the “I-IV-V” chords from “D” Major.

We’re going to keep the open 4th-string “D” as a drone in the bass and generate a concept called modal harmony using intervals on the 3rd and 2nd strings.

First thing to do is to become familiar with each of the 2-note chord shapes along strings 3 and 2. Then, you need to understand how to get this collection of scale tones working together along the neck.

Additionally, you can also add in some melody lines using small scale segments. These scale parts work great when it comes to mixing melody lines along with the drone chord harmony parts.

Andrew Wasson
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[BlondieGuitarGirl]

I used this idea and in about 5 min. I wrote a lovely little riff. So simple, but it totally hits exactly what you need to make a musical connection.

[Introverted]

When someone says "play something, " I immediately break into Slayer's War Ensemble.

[DavidCurtis-jk]

Really was nice, thanks ive been in the process in playing at 55, several months absorbing all i can but not no hurry to learn to fast. Enjoy the process. This helps slot thank you

[TastateurDeArch]

Love it! That s so simple and emotional, I‘ll include this to my daily jam session. Thanks a lot, you will be donated.

[SteveMavronis]

Wow that blows my mind with the melody lines added. Will be practicing this.

[jackmiller]

Pretty cool! Sounds beautiful and it is true that it would be impressive to play these movements to anyone. Great video.

[EricHester-wwuc]

Very simple. It didn't sound quite as good on my strat as on the classical. You have exalent tone, which I find hard to achieve on YouTube.

[twilliamsusmc]

As soon as they see my
Someone wants to hear me play something.
I play the star spangled banner.
1st tune I learned to play

[juliochingaling]

Great sounding guitar, great lesson. God bless.

[cliffchilders]

When someone asks me to play something...
My mind instantly goes blank!!!😅😅😅😅

[JohnDoesItAll]

When someone says "play something, " I break into....
Stairway to Heaven 😂

[scott]

One of my favorite cheap tricks to really sound pro.. 😁 good stuff, and it is really pretty sounding. i use this with C and F as well.

[toddkerr]

Just starting have been wanting to learn to play for awhile.

[randydarklight]

That´s so cool even I can do that (then everyone can do it 😆). Thumb up.

[jdmInteriors]

Tyvm. Im getting back into guitar at 60. I love this. Beautiful ! Do you have a class or suggestion on how to write this onto manuscript paper?

[belascialoja]

At 3:30, the chord "x.x.0.7.7.x is called "...a true representation of our root chord in the key of D major." However, this chord has no 5th -- no 'A' note. How, then, is it a true representation of the root chord in D major?

[JoeyB]

I usually go with blackbird. It looks harder than it is

[shredguitarman]

I started your 28 day guitar plan and it has changed my life!

[penumbraman]

Since you didn’t touch the 5th & 6th string you can play this little tune on the baritone ukulele with standard tuning.