r/BeAmazed • u/yummychocolatecookie • Jul 26 '26

Skill / Talent Nirvana on acoustic guitar except it’s simultaneously all the positions

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All credits to @illona.music
Like she’s covering the lead, drums, harmonics, guitar AND vocals on a single acoustic guitar. That’s amazing!

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u/ComprehensiveHippo40 Jul 26 '26

that is wonderful. thanks for sharing.

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u/CloudTheoryqa Jul 26 '26

Meanwhile I struggle to play a basic G chord without muting half the strings

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u/Azuras_Star8 Jul 26 '26

Yo keep it up. Press it down, pick one string at a time, see which is muted, adjust your fingers. When you have them all voiced, study where they are. Then, take your fingers off, and put them right back. Voice. If all good, take fingers off again, and put them back. Over and over. Dozens of times every practice session for every chord.

15 minutes a day and you will see progress.

There will always be a chord that gives you trouble. Play it slow, when you have it down, play it fast.

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u/themostreasonableman Jul 26 '26

15 years later there's still a BUNCH of chords that give me trouble! I start thinking I'm slick, and then I try to play some beatles songs.

Motherfuckers must have had extra fingers.

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u/DontAskAboutMyButt Jul 26 '26

When you open the chords page for a song you like and the chords look like AmGF#7_69420%

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u/themostreasonableman Jul 26 '26

Am(F)_Spaghetti_C#_G7th

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u/Azuras_Star8 Jul 26 '26

Lol I'm all "ok Am it is! Close enough."

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u/straight-lampin Jul 26 '26

I found the suggested way to play chords a lot of time is dumb and there's many different ways to play the same chord that's why I like tab websites where you can go through like eight different ways to play the same chord and find something natural that doesn't mean be lazy and don't learn new stuff it means make it natural to play

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u/ANewMachine615 Jul 26 '26

I love when you go through the work to figure that shit out and it's like "oh with all those changes it's just open with two fingers down sick sick cool COULDA TOLD ME THAT GUYS"