Techniques From Songs - Open Feel Barre Chord From Love Yourself

This time “technique from songs” is going to use Love Yourself by Justin Bieber to talk about open feel comping with barre chords.

Since there are already quite a lot videos are helping you to play this song, I am going to talk about this song in different way. About how to get the open feel comping in the verse.

Here is the progression of the verse.

As we can see, if we just play what we see on the chart, it will just be some barre chords with an interesting rhythm.

But we get an idea from the song, we play only the 5th and 2nd string, to achieve the open feel in the song!

Although, we can see most of the chords as a combination of root and a 3rd one octave higher, it’s actually easier to just skip some strings when you are trying to come up with a rhythm p art like that.

So let’s put this concept to a different chord progression and change the rhythm a little bit. I will use the chord progression form That’s How You Know by Nico & Vinz.

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這次 “technique from songs” 要用Justin Bieber的Love Yourself來討論開放感的封閉和弦伴奏方法。

由於網路上已經有很多不同的影片在做這首歌的演奏教學，我想要討論一些比較不同的面向，也就是如何談出主歌中那種有開放感的伴奏。

以下是主歌的和弦進行：

我們假若只是照著譜例彈奏，就只會彈出有著有去節奏的一串封閉和弦。

但我們可以試著向歌中一樣，只演奏吉他第五及二弦來得到那種開放感。

雖然可以解釋多數的和弦為根音與高八度的三度音的組合，但若想成以後在彈封閉和弦時，若想要得到那種開放感，可以省略掉中間的部分弦，會相對容易一些！

我們將這樣的概念放到其他的和弦進行，並稍微改變節奏。這裡我將用Nico&Vinz的That's How You Know這首歌的和弦進行來做範例。