How To Make Your Fingerpicking Sound Like Blackbird By The Beatles - 10th Harmony
by Simon Candy
In this video, I show you how to create a great fingerpicking sound using 10th harmony.
This is the harmony the song “Blackbird” by The Beatles is built on and almost exclusively uses throughout. The 10th harmony is also a great concept to integrate with percussive fingerpicking. What you are about to see is an expert from a live masterclass I presented in Chicago.
In it, I take a simple chord progression and show you how to spice it up by applying 10th harmony to it in a fingerpicking context.
First, I show you how to easily find 10th harmony on your guitar by relating it to common bar chord forms.
It’s super easy!
Next, I show you how to use 10th harmony by applying it to a chord progression, adding the drone of open strings just like in the song Blackbird.
You also learn how great 10th harmony sounds with percussive fingerpicking. I show you a percussive fingerpicking pattern you can use anytime with 10th harmony for a cool groove.
Watch the video below to learn how:
10th Harmony
10th Harmony Shapes: Root 6
The following are 10th harmony shapes that can be found in the root 6 bar chord forms:
10th Harmony Shapes: Root 5
The following are 10th harmony shapes that can be found in the root 5 bar chord forms:
10th Harmony: Droning Open Strings
Droning open strings sound great with 10th harmony shapes.
Here is an example:
10th Harmony: Percussive Fingerpicking
Adding a percussive fingerpicking pattern sounds great with 10th harmony shapes.
Here is an example:
10th Harmony: Masterclass Example 1
The following is the 10th harmony example from the masterclass using droning open strings:
10th Harmony: Masterclass Example 2
The following is the 10th harmony example from the masterclass using a percussive fingerpicking approach:
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