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The melody note won’t always be same as the name of the chord. Most chords are made up of three notes, and some have more. The C chord you mentioned includes a C, E, and G. The E melody note is part of that C major chord. This song is in the key of G major. You can use other chords in the key of G major, but the standard chords in this key are G, Amin, Bmin, C, D, Emin, and F#dim. Except for one or two spots, most of the chords in this example are taken from that collection of chords. If you are looking at guitar music that only shows the melody but no chords, a lot of times you can find the chords for the melody with a Google search. The chords you find will often be in just a lyric/chord format (no notes), so it will take a little bit of trial and error to figure out how the chords line up with the melody. That’s a lot to think about if you’re just getting started! This will start to make more sense once you get to the point where you can start learning some theory. If you’re new at guitar, I don’t recommend trying to dive into theory right away. Just have fun playing. But if you do eventually want to get into the theory side of things, I recommend first learning to read standard notation, and then learn your major scales (not just patterns, but being able to name the notes as you play them).

Thank you so much!

Thanks! I have a similar video for 7th chords coming out next week.

More commonly, you'll see the 3rd raised to a 4th for a sus4 chord (which can be labeled either "sus" or "sus4").

I prefer to keep the 3rds and 7ths on the 3rd and 4th strings as shown in this lesson for smoother voice leading. The bass notes jump around as you would hear in most bass lines, and the 3rds and 7ths resolve properly. This also helps to avoid chords sounding muddy (with too many low strings), but you can definitely play the 6th string root shell voicings as you described. The shapes will be the same, so they’re all easier to learn, but you sacrifice good voice leading.

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That’s a great video idea! It’ll be a few weeks before I can record a lesson for this. I’ll describe it here and add another comment when the lesson is ready so you can watch some examples. If you want to play 0-2-0, you would play the open string (0), hammer-on to 2, and then do a pull-off with the finger you hammered with to play “0” again. Here’s a lesson on hammer-ons if you need to learn about that. ua-cam.com/video/Ga4U2Jncvcc/v-deo.html I’ll do a video showing how to combine hammer-ons and pull-offs.

@@GodfreyGuitar yes but I am not able to understand how long should the time sustain you know what I mean? I don't exactly understand if 2 is supposed to be just touch and go or should I spend half second or something on there I recently started learning over the hills and far away by led zepline and there's this thing happening which is not giving me exact sound. Anyway I will be waiting for your video and just wanted to let you know your channel is so amazing. I look forward learning more from you and keeping in touch with you

Thanks so much! I really appreciate it! I updated the book a week or two ago and made a handful of minor fixes, so you have the newest version. Let me know if you have any questions or if you find an error. Thanks again!

I'm glad this helped! I'm planning a new series that I'm going to call 3-Minute Theory, where I go through music theory from the beginning and break it down a little bit at a time. That series will be coming soon. If you're looking for a deeper dive, I've posted a series called Guitar Theory Modules. It follows my theory book, but you don't necessarily need to get the book to follow the videos. Thanks so much for your comment, and here's a link to the Guitar Theory Modules playlist. ua-cam.com/play/PL7EWn0NDNJx90kNaiqF6f-4vVNRKSekFb.html

@@GodfreyGuitar thank you so much!! Looking forward to your new channel!!

Thanks so much!

I'm glad this helped you!

Thanks! I'm glad this was helpful.

yes we want tutorial

​@@InvestingEducation I"m working on a tutorial right now.

Thank you! I'll record a tutorial and post it in a week or so.

I just posted the tutorial. Here it is: ua-cam.com/video/uZmOw5r4V3A/v-deo.html