Night Moves by Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band features some unique movable chord forms. These unique forms serve as alternatives to full form barre chords you might be used to hearing, using scale patterns as scaffolding.
Carrie Underwood puts her signature spin on country songwriting with this upbeat tune featuring simple chord progressions – perfect for practicing alternate strumming and chord switching techniques!
A minor
Although some may argue otherwise, the Beatles chords weren’t particularly unusual. Their repertoire included stock chords, major and minor triads and dominant 7th chords; diminished triads or extensions beyond a 7th were rarely employed.
“Hard Day’s Night” begins with a simple D chord; however, this is often written as Dmaj7 due to Paul singing the major 7th prominently in Paul’s vocal line. Meanwhile John plays his standard doo-wop Dsus4 which can sometimes be called Dmadd11.
The chord progression in this song is relatively straightforward and contains only three major and one minor chord, making it easy for any guitarist to learn. There are a few minor key changes as well; they shouldn’t present too many difficulties.
B minor
At first, learning the B minor guitar chord may prove challenging for beginners due to its unconventional fretting method, known as barre chording. Your index finger rests across each string except low E and mutes it so you can play all six strings with full force simultaneously.
Beginner guitarists may find the B minor 7th chord difficult, but learning it will help build up strength in both fingers and wrists for making clean chord changes in future. Consider practicing it along with variations such as B minor add9 for added variety in chord progressions.
C major
The key of C is an extremely versatile major key, offering many beautiful chords to use in your songs. You will often see that many popular songs use C as their starting point.
Once you have your basic open C chord down pat, try adding some variation by learning a barre chord in eighth position – it gives an entirely different sound, yet is easy enough for beginners.
This version of C chord may be slightly more challenging to play because it requires moving your fingers more. With practice and repetition however, this version will become second nature and make switching between C and G chord progressions simpler and faster – saving on finger movement time!
D major
One of the more familiar chord shapes for beginners, D major is featured in numerous songs by U2 (Desire) and Demi Lovato (“Let It Go”) as well as Rush (“Fly By Night”). You will want this versatile chord shape in your arsenal!
Open D major chord is an ideal place for beginning guitar students to begin, due to its close spacing of notes which makes it simple for most newcomers to gain confidence under their fingers. By practicing strumming this shape and transitioning quickly to other open chords such as G and A, muscle memory will develop quickly to allow swift switching between chords.
E minor
Professional guitarists of United Guitar have recently developed Guitar Chord Tabs for Night Moves by Bob Seger in E minor key, using three 3 chord progressions that create its chord-bass melody – higher than any average song that uses our system; therefore it requires additional chord bass melodies than most. Our current BLOGoZON highlights how increasing usable 3 Chord tricks by replacing difficult Bdim chord with alternative choices can increase usability; please refer to table below for details.
The natural minor scale can produce a predictable series of 3 chord tricks using note scale chords that we refer to as 3 Chord Tricks. Here is a table listing 15 such 3 Chord Tricks derived from this scale.
F major
F major is a barre chord and requires considerable hand strength to perform properly. For beginners just starting out, this can be one of the first chords they attempt and master – but that shouldn’t be an insurmountable obstacle! With practice comes mastery – don’t give up just yet.
There are easier ways to play this chord. The key is not simply relearning its shape but learning to use the appropriate technique for barring chords. Watch this video for an example and practice slowly with a metronome until your chord changes can happen without stopping and starting; this takes time but is well worth your investment!