Super Beginner R&B Guitar

Sweetwater:

Some of my acoustic R&B guitar videos are called “Easy R&B Neo Soul progression” or “Beginners Neo Soul Guitar” and so on. I often receive the comment that they’re not really for beginners because they include bar chords, 7th chords, fingerpicking patterns and embellishments. So this time I wanted to make an actual Super Beginner friendly R&B Guitar lesson! And this is really for beginners, even for complete beginners. And it includes fingerpicking patterns, percussions, embellishments and even 7th chords! If you’re a more intermediate/advanced player head to the end of the video for the more intermediate version of the chord progression! Check out the tab and music notation for both versions - including a music theory analysis - on my Patreon.

▬▬▬▬ Content of the video ▬▬▬▬
00:00 Easy R&B Guitar Lesson for Beginners?
01:05 What is tricky for beginners
01:34 Key and chords needed for this lesson
03:14 Fingerpicking pattern
07:20 Embellishment
08:25 Full R&B chord progression for beginners
09:56 R&B Neo Soul Acoustic Guitar course
10:40 Intermediate R&B chord progression

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[scottjones]

I am not a complete beginner, but found this lesson fascinating because your teaching is so crystal clear, linear, polished and laser focused. Also I had not thought about a progression like this with open chords - hey why not! Lastly since I am new to percussion moves, this was really nice and basic so I could start at the beginning. Your teaching skill and polished presentation is extremely rare. Thanks so much for your work. I uspect a packaged complete course for the rank beginner would be a big hit. I'd take it!

[FadeMaster]

This video encourages me to keep learning the guitar! Thanks bro! I need all of the beginner lessons.

[z.p]

Now this is exactly what I've been looking for, respect, hope you have more of these super beginner vids!

[Pabloplays]

I started last night, this is for beginners and this is absolutely perfect. Thank you🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[urfavgaycousin]

Thank u thank u thank u . I really wanna learn guitar but it's always rock chords which are cool but I wanna play soul funk rnb and neosoul and all the others tutorials are more advance beginner intermediate. Finally I can learn the guitar and enjoy it. Plz make more of these ❤️

[mmmolin]

Thank you! That was great, I'm going to keep practicing this.

[willbanks]

Hey Bearded guitarist thanks for this lesson, I feel this easy enough for me to learn, looks and feel fun

[beautifulmedicine]

I am very new to the guitar but I think I might be able to do this 🙏🏼 gonna try today and see how it goes

[loudpipes]

Thanks for this! It’s been a great help..

[nkaymusiq]

Thank you soo much for this lesson sir

[razvanv]

amazing, thank you! more progressions like this please!

[evolvo_e]

Thank you so much for these lessons, hope you can continue this into a short series

[nickowen]

Thanks Simone- enjoying your Udemy course 👍

[worshipforlife]

I don’t know what level I fit in but I was able to follow both versions (my pinky hammer ones aren’t as fluid and my bar chords aren’t as clean sounding) but thank you for the lesson and I will keep practicing!

[charliebrown-nptv]

this looks interesting to me and maybe easier than trying to learn some rock or complex blues stuff. im older and never really learned to play properly so this makes me hopeful lol

[irbynlegend]

Thank you so much for keeping the absolute beginners to guitar in mind! I’m playing on an electric guitar. Do your acoustic lessons still apply to electric as well? Please make more videos like this because I am a super beginner but I want to make neo-soul/r&b my main style! 🙏🏾🔥

[JamieR]

Loving your videos! Will definitely purchase the udemy course soon.

I'm curious if anyone with some experience would mind answering this; how high should the strings be above the frets toward the end of the fret board? I have a hunch this guitar needs some work to be easier to play. Bar chords early up on the neck is easy, but as soon it is past 5th fret it becomes really hard to keep it clean.

[RobertFunderburk-fc]

What acoustic Guirtar are you using? It sounds nice

[kristanbenson]

I’m kinda new to acoustic although been playing electric since I was 16.. (I’m 43 now) I’ve currently got 12 guage strings, which I’m finding a tough adjustment, what do you use?

[noimspartacus]

How are you, bruv? Thanks and keep up the good work.👍🙏