Super Beginner R&B Guitar

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Some of my acoustic R&B guitar videos are called “Easy R&B Neo Soul progression” or “Beginners Neo Soul Guitar” and so on. I often receive the comment that they’re not really for beginners because they include bar chords, 7th chords, fingerpicking patterns and embellishments. So this time I wanted to make an actual Super Beginner friendly R&B Guitar lesson! And this is really for beginners, even for complete beginners. And it includes fingerpicking patterns, percussions, embellishments and even 7th chords! If you’re a more intermediate/advanced player head to the end of the video for the more intermediate version of the chord progression! Check out the tab and music notation for both versions - including a music theory analysis - on my Patreon.
▬▬▬▬ Content of the video ▬▬▬▬
00:00 Easy R&B Guitar Lesson for Beginners?
01:05 What is tricky for beginners
01:34 Key and chords needed for this lesson
03:14 Fingerpicking pattern
07:20 Embellishment
08:25 Full R&B chord progression for beginners
09:56 R&B Neo Soul Acoustic Guitar course
10:40 Intermediate R&B chord progression
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[@TheBeardedGuitarist]

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[@imosdefinite]

Is this good for beginners?

[@TheBeardedGuitarist]

Late beginners, early intermediate. Check the requirements in the description

[@scottjones6624]

I am not a complete beginner, but found this lesson fascinating because your teaching is so crystal clear, linear, polished and laser focused. Also I had not thought about a progression like this with open chords - hey why not! Lastly since I am new to percussion moves, this was really nice and basic so I could start at the beginning. Your teaching skill and polished presentation is extremely rare. Thanks so much for your work. I uspect a packaged complete course for the rank beginner would be a big hit. I'd take it!

[@TheBeardedGuitarist]

Thanks so much

[@FadeMaster251]

This video encourages me to keep learning the guitar! Thanks bro! I need all of the beginner lessons.

[@AfterWorkMusician]

Really enjoyed this lesson! 🎸

[@razvanv339]

amazing, thank you! more progressions like this please!

[@Pabloplays98]

I started last night, this is for beginners and this is absolutely perfect. Thank you🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@jamiladivine117]

This is a fantastic lesson.

[@NalaBalenciaga]

Thank u thank u thank u . I really wanna learn guitar but it's always rock chords which are cool but I wanna play soul funk rnb and neosoul and all the others tutorials are more advance beginner intermediate. Finally I can learn the guitar and enjoy it. Plz make more of these ❤️

[@TheBeardedGuitarist]

Definitely will! Thank you

[@loudpipes9711]

Thanks for this! It’s been a great help..

[@therealnkaytv]

Thank you soo much for this lesson sir

[@awitlang.]

Thanks for this bro

[@willbanks6039]

Hey Bearded guitarist thanks for this lesson, I feel this easy enough for me to learn, looks and feel fun

[@TheBeardedGuitarist]

That’s great!

[@mmmolin]

Thank you! That was great, I'm going to keep practicing this.

[@TheBeardedGuitarist]

Awesome!

[@Gheiss-]

Love it!

[@TheBeardedGuitarist]

Thank you

[@TheBeardedGuitarist]

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[@nickowen1480]

Thanks Simone- enjoying your Udemy course 👍

[@TheBeardedGuitarist]

Thank you

[@evolvo_e4129]

Thank you so much for these lessons, hope you can continue this into a short series

[@TheBeardedGuitarist]

I will indeed!

[@evolvo_e4129]

@@TheBeardedGuitarist thank you 🙏 so much I deeply appreciate I’m a beginner and noticed there no beginners videos for neo soul

[@minicou972]

Niceeeee job thank youuu 🥰

[@TheBeardedGuitarist]

Thank you

[@sonnycerff2168]

Thank you dear freind

[@azraelfirstofhisname8695]

This was good 🔥🔥😎

[@TheBeardedGuitarist]

Thank you

[@charliebrown-np1tv]

this looks interesting to me and maybe easier than trying to learn some rock or complex blues stuff. im older and never really learned to play properly so this makes me hopeful lol

[@worshipforlife7745]

I don’t know what level I fit in but I was able to follow both versions (my pinky hammer ones aren’t as fluid and my bar chords aren’t as clean sounding) but thank you for the lesson and I will keep practicing!

[@irbynlegend705]

Thank you so much for keeping the absolute beginners to guitar in mind! I’m playing on an electric guitar. Do your acoustic lessons still apply to electric as well? Please make more videos like this because I am a super beginner but I want to make neo-soul/r&b my main style! 🙏🏾🔥

[@TheBeardedGuitarist]

Thanks, will do

[@beautifulmedicine6219]

I am very new to the guitar but I think I might be able to do this 🙏🏼 gonna try today and see how it goes

[@mahoganysoul1798]

Me too 😄🤞🏾and neo soul and rnb are my favourite genres…plus the blues lol.

[@noimspartacus4357]

How are you, bruv? Thanks and keep up the good work.👍🙏

[@TheBeardedGuitarist]

Thank you

[@JamieR]

Loving your videos! Will definitely purchase the udemy course soon. I'm curious if anyone with some experience would mind answering this; how high should the strings be above the frets toward the end of the fret board? I have a hunch this guitar needs some work to be easier to play. Bar chords early up on the neck is easy, but as soon it is past 5th fret it becomes really hard to keep it clean.

[@sorrybutimnotsorry]

First off thanks for the video buddy. I got a few tips, kinda long, but i hope it helps you help me get better lol 1. I think the biggest mistake teachers make when teaching beginner guitarists is assuming we know the chords and the lingo, in this video alone you're throwing around all kinds of words that i literally have to Google or watch another video to explain. You're saying something whilst saying what we should be looking for whilst also calling out the chords and then guess what... I'm confused!! 2. The idea that this style... R&B might be my first style period, seems to have gone over every R&B guitar teachers head. Almost as if i shouldn't start playing guitar here, in the music i like but in something else i don't like. But i got a question for you, who on earth plays or listens to music they don't like? I want an actual beginner lesson, where you explain how to approach the guitar, how to approach a thing that you love, and appreciate and want to make a part of who you are. I don't want a 13 min video that is just you showing me you're amazing at this and you are! But it would be better if i got music that explains first and foremost why that string? Why that chord? Without it being college lecture and i mean if you say " i play this one it sounds like birds... Believe me when i tell you i can relate to that more than... Play the A chord, I'll learn the chords eventually, but I'm between me getting good and where i am now i just still wanna have fun playing... You know what i mean 🤷🏾

[@edenjodiee]

in the same boat

[@irbynlegend705]

I can agree. Hearing all of these chords and everything can be super confusing for a beginner. But he’s doing a great job demonstrating I just don’t know WHY he’s playing the notes that he is playing yet

[@TheBeardedGuitarist]

This is an R&B lesson for true beginners. Not a complete beginner guitar lesson to get started on guitar

[@tonywang7704]

I feel like Neo soul/R&B can never for a complete beginner, there many techniques in here, muting, hammering, thumbing, weird shape cords… just go for C major song if you’re a complete beginner of guitar.

[@mizzuzmo4459]

Dm7 1:51

[@josefjosef5935]

Top mn.

[@TheBeardedGuitarist]

Thank you

[@bigaltaufetee4933]

I like this, I am a beginner but plays key of G is all I know, lol… So I like this

[@justinray8107]

I want a guitar😭

[@sydh-b3771]

What are some good songs to learn for funk, r&b and neo soul? I only have an acoustic with a pretty high action so more strumming than picking for now

[@TheBeardedGuitarist]

I will break down a song in this style next week! Don’t miss it out

[@convoswithgod2]

🎉❤🎉

[@kaizerrei255]

Is that nylon or steel string?

[@leejackson4671]

If you don't mind me asking you what brand guitar you are playing

[@TheBeardedGuitarist]

Martin

[@ericgarr3331]

which Martin is this?

[@TheBeardedGuitarist]

OM JM

[@pastormikeb1779]

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!!!

[@TheBeardedGuitarist]

♥️

[@therealnkaytv]

Thank you soo much for this lesson sir