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。
其實會注意到是因為一開始的前奏。那個大鼓莫名讓我想到貓王版本的《You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling》，一首又更加顯得老派的歌，即便在那首歌裡前奏是Bass，而且速度又慢很多。但其實又不只因為大鼓，是因為那跟著的三響鈴鼓，好想敲醒了什麼似的。吉他一下之後那更加篤定老派的tremolo讓我決定聽完。其實雖然表達上稍微迂迴，但應該是整張專輯裡面一首對情感比較坦率的曲子。這裡感覺可以告訴樂團中的鼓手，不要覺得想出好記、好聽的旋律、Riff是其他樂手的事，你們也可以。
