TITLE: SURF MAC MILLER GUITAR LESSON hi it's Tom the posthumous Mac Miller album dropped last night and I've had to
listen to it's really really strongly reminder of what an extraordinary talent
Mac Miller was I'm going to do a few tutorials today I'm going to do one on
surf and I'm also going to go through circles as well with surf I will go
through the advanced chords which I think that the ones played on the track
and I'll also go through the simplified version of the chords I'm going to do
that in the tutorial section and I'll also go through the solo with the chord
progression I'll play through it at a few speeds as well
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so the cause that I have for serf is the first one is a c-sharp minor 7
and the second chord i have is an f-sharp minor 7 and here I'm using that
D minor shape and the third chord is a big dominant 7 or b7 and I'm using that
East 7 shape here
and finally and this is a trickiest chord I have an e add 9
now a less awkward version of the e at nine if you're using a bar chord will be
this one it would be like playing an e sus two and you're going to get the same
kind of feel there as well although I believe the other one is the one which
has been played on the track so I've got the chord boxes there so you can see the
fingering that I'm using there's not much really to say here that one thing
is you want to make sure that you have that little rest after you play the note
so I have to do that strum so it's quite an abrupt strum so if you want to a nice
simple strumming you just strum on every second beat and that still sounds great
now there are some variations during the track and I've kind of got this 11 which
I'm using there to transition back to that c-sharp minor' and there are a few
different ways that that gets done and that's kind of the trickiest thing in
terms of fingering when I do that I'm using my ring finger and that's pretty
much it for the strumming with the basic strumming where you could use if you put
a capo onto the fourth fret you could use an a minor 7 and then a D minor 7
and then a g7 and then if you want a super basic you
could use a c-major here or even better you could use a C at 9:00 and once again
if you're using that version you could Strummer every second beat one two three
four one two three four and that sounds good as well
with the solo this is all being played in the c-sharp minor seven pentatonic
scale you can listen to the track to see how the rhythm is the kind of key things
which a bit tricky is that slide there and back and there's quite a lot of
vibrato there there's also the effect on there so that's kind of like a fuzz
distortion which kind of gets that feel so there's a kind of that gritty feel so
if you want to kind of try to replicate that as well that's kind of really a
part of the tone of how this the tracks being played so hope you found that
useful do let me know if you want to have more tracks from this album and
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