Composing with SMOOTH Voice Leading | Inverted Chords Guitar Composing Tutorial

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In this video I'll show you how inverted chords can be used to achieve smooth voice leading in your guitar composing.
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⏱ Content Outline for This Guitar Composing Video

0:00 - About this inverted chords guitar lesson
0:38 - What I'll cover in this video
1:25 - What is voice leading?
2:27 - Progression in G with open chords
3:00 - Progression in G with voice leading
7:16 - Level up with adding melodic connections
11:02 - Progression in D with open chords
11:44 - Progression in D with voice leading
12:49 - More melodic connections
14:44 - Recap / how you can use voice leading
15:04 - Chords with Color (FREE PDF)
15:49 - Watch next & outro

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🎸 Video about shell voicings
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💬 Lesson Description

If you like arranging and guitar composing, or if you just want a deeper understanding of how chord progressions can work all over the fretboard, then I think you'll find this week's lesson fun and helpful.

In this video we talk about guitar composing with smooth voice leading and chord inversions.

One of my favorite things about making my weekly videos is getting to compose the little intro music examples that I play at the beginning of the lessons.

By request, in this inverted chords guitar lesson, I take one of my intros from a couple years ago and I break down the compositional concepts used in it.

Detailed sheet music and tabs are included on the screen to help you follow along 👀

I hope you enjoyed this lesson about inverted chords guitar composing and found it beneficial. Let me know what you thought in the comments.

Thanks! :)

- Jared