How To: Play percussive guitar

Play percussive guitar

Check out this instructional acoustic guitar video that shows you some basic techniques to play percussive guitar. This is a series explaining some of the basics of percussive playing. These are the chords used in this lesson:

First Chord is E Major with a 2nd instead of an octave all moved up to 12th fret area -

E A D G B E
0 14 16 13 0 0

The Second Chord is E with a major 7th and an additional 5th instead of the 3rd.

E A D G B E
0 14 13 16 0 0

This tutorial covers some more complicated beats and two hand techniques. Learn a few percussive techniques and improve your acoustic guitar playing skills!

(1) Part 1 of 2 - How to Play percussive guitar, (2) Part 2 of 2 - How to Play percussive guitar

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