Hi all,
I have some basic knowledge in guitar (Let’ say that when I play autumn leaves it looks like the Level 4 alternating ii-V-I 7 chords and melody) but with a blues-rock focus.
However, I never spent much time polishing my basic open chords and folk guitar. I struggled with chords as a beginner, so quickly spent more time working scales and riffs, and when I came back to chords it was all the fancy chords and basically when I play rhythm, it’s either power chords or 7/9 chords. So I end up sucking at the simple open a songbook, play open chords and have people singing. Actually, I can’t even play wonderwall (Well, I could do something like A-Dm-G-C with some DDUDUD rhytthm and yell someday it’s gonna be the day nobody would notice it’s not the song :) )
I am looking for some resources (which could be paying) on how to work a bit the acoustic folk technique, including common pattern and accents, common chords substitution and filler licks, and all these little things which make the difference between strumming some chords at the campfire and actually playing the song
A thing that helped me a lot understanding the acoustic guitar was playing without a pick, just with my fingers.
You’ll probably struggle a bit in the beginning, but this exercise really helps you to find out rhythmic patterns that just sound good.
Once you get good with that start adding percussions with your wrist or nails.
You’ll start playing open chords in a different way once you’ll go back to playing with picks