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Folk, country and Spain

Country on guitar: chords and rhythm.

Country rests on the I – IV – V, G, C, D, and adds a seventh to the chord that leads home (D7). The picking hand alternates a bass note on the beat and the chord on the offbeat: the "boom-chicka".

I – IV – V – V7Level · Intermediate

The progression

Pick a key: the charts change right below. "Listen" plays the progression with its rhythm; a click on a chord plays it alone, the arrow opens its page.

Key

In G major · 112 BPM
  • G
    G major213
  • C
    C major×321
  • D
    D major××132
  • D7
    D 7××213

The rhythm

One bar of the strumming hand, beat by beat. While it plays, the stroke being played lights up.

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  • the bass, with the thumb
  • down, cut short
  • strum up
  • the alternating bass

From the same world

The acoustic guitar, its open strings and alternating bass, then the Andalusian cadence of flamenco and Gypsy rumba.