Playing chords and strumming patterns makes up part of the guitar rhythm for a song. Adding colorful embellishments to your chords will make your rhythm playing more interesting to listen to. It can give the song just sparkle it needs.
Although it’s really cool to experiment with embellishments, try to use them when it’s appropriate. Use embellishments here and there to lift your music.
In the two videos below I explain how to use and apply embellishments using a basic strumming pattern, open chords C, D, E, F, G, A, Am, Em, Dm, adding sus2 sus4, add4, 6sus4, sus2sus4, dom7 and hammer-on tricks to chords and progressions.
Let’s spice up your rhythm playing.
very, very nice.. great job!
Hi Tony,
Glad to hear the lesson is useful to you.
Thanks I appreciate it.
Enjoy!
Best regards,
Marcus Chen
Very interesting lesson. I have already worked out some of these moves without knowing the names of the chords but this takes me on a lot further and I particularly like how you turn your guitar towards the camera so we can see both hands.
Thanks a lot
Martin
Hi Martin,
I’ll keep that in mind for the upcoming guitar lessons.
Thanks for the feedback!
Best regards,
Marcus Chen
Just stumbled on your site and loved the first lesson on chord embellishments. Thanks keep up the good work.
Musicians that share their knowledge just for the love of music…wonderful!
So appreciate the chord embellishment lesson, exactly what I was looking for.