I don’t really play the guitar much however I did as a child. I was given a nice acoustic guitar the other week from a coworker so I decided to make some use of it. I figured that I could use my Piano music knowledge to work out chords on the guitar. It does help to some extent, however I am unable to visualize and work out new chord on the guitar like I can on the keyboard. I am having to Google chords and various fret positions. I also noticed that most simple guitar songs are written in the keys of Gmaj, Emaj or Amaj, the keys which I dislike on the keyboard. I prefer keys such as Abmaj, Cmin, Gmin etc and they flow with the natural position of the fingers.
Below is a simple chord progression I played on the guitar, Dmaj, Cmaj and Bbmaj. The guitar I have is acoustic but it has an electric pick up jack so can plug it into my audio interface. In Ableton Live I recorded it in clip mode and had it on repeat. I just play the same chords over it using my Nord.
Sounds smooth. I didn’t know you played the guitar, cool.
Love this jam here mate. The guitar goes well with the chords. You should make a full track.
Thanks, and I probably will.
Hey man, nice stuff. How are you recording the Acoustic guitar into Ableton Live real time like that.
It’s actually an Electric Acoustic type. It may be difficult to see but I have a cable connected from the base of the guitar to my Audio interface. Set it to record 4 bars then repeat. Not as clean as using a good mic with guitar setup but decent enough.