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Folk, country and Spain

Folk on guitar: chords and rhythm.

Folk is played on acoustic guitar, on open chords that let the open strings ring. The sus4, which swaps the third for the fourth before going back (Dsus4 then D), is its favorite ornament. The thumb plays the bass, then the hand strums the chord.

I – Vsus4 – V – IVLevel · Beginner

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 · 100 BPM
  • G
    G major213
  • Dsus4
    D sus4××134
  • D
    D major××132
  • C
    C major×321

The rhythm

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

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2
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3
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4
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  • the bass, with the thumb
  • strum down
  • strum up
  • the alternating bass

In the collection

4

Songs in this style, with their chords or the scale of their solos.

From the same world

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