Welcome to the bonus bonus lesson, what I'm going to teach you how to do or help direct you to learn how to do is experiment with the concepts that you've learned or simply to make music with the concepts that you've learned in the course whether that be a chord, or a scale, or, or whatever. My instructor always would say with whatever you do learning a scale or anything, always make music from it right learn that scale. And then make music from it just I'm just kind of messing around there just using the notes in the scale kind of, you know, thinking of a melody now. What I'm gonna do now is show you from just one chord, all the different things that you can come up with. Now let's pretend that I don't even know anything else. Let's pretend I've some random person taught me a D chord.

So I know that this is a D chord here. And that's it. All right? Well, let's make music from it. Now that might initially be hard to just well, making music well. Watch, just experiment with different things.

Experimentation will lead to making music. So you can, for example, add a finger on to the court. And remember, I'm just I don't even know what I'm doing. I'm just gonna pretend Okay, well, I'm just gonna add this pinky finger here. Remember, john Mayer's saying he would, you know, he would learn a simple chord and be like, Well, I have these other fingers I could use let's see what I can do with them. So So that's actually a thesis for, but let's pretend we still don't even know that we realize, Oh, that's a pretty cool sound.

Really cool sound. Okay, got that we know. Now we can kind of go back and forth here. That's definitely used in songs. But it's like we figured that out without even having to to learn a song. still learn songs because learning songs will actually help you with experimentation and making music and making your own music and that sort of thing.

So, okay, so let's, let's take away a finger. Let's take away the middle finger here. Now, we already know you and I know that that's the DSS two from one of the first chords that we learned in the course. Let's pretend again, we didn't know we all we knew is the D. And we just played this for the first time. It's a pretty nice sound like going from the D And then that's back to the D. Like strumming that's really pretty. I mean, you could go ahead write a song with that, write it, write a hit song just just using that.

I give you full permission. This is all just from experimenting, right? Hey, try try taking away the the index finger. Okay. All right. So let's try I don't know shifting the ring finger up here.

Probably not so much. It could serve its purpose. That sound I would just go with at this point. I would guess that you're not digging that sound so much. So we know. We know to not do that.

Right? experimenting as well, you learn also what not to do. Learn what sounds good, what doesn't sound good. Alright, so also you can now explore, you know, any area on the neck of the guitar to without even knowing what all this is here, or what's going on in here. So what the core idea is, there we go, we just know the D chord. That's it.

And we know that we can shift our hand around. So you can just start just strumming the same strings and just start going up and see what you might like. If you're just jumping the tree here, you're actually playing what's called a triad. The three notes, those are the three notes within any with the particular core, they say you didn't really know that baby Doing this so you're like, Okay, I mean any of those could sound good at a particular point, right? If you're just like playing this strumming those three strings. Let's try adding the D string in though and see what sounds good.

That can have its place. Let's just keep going higher. Kind of cool. going up and up. Just experiment. Might Rick recognize that this does actually sound pretty good.

So with a bunch of experimentation is going up and down, you'll probably come across some different positions. Here. Let's call this seventh position, index fingers and the middle finger on the seventh fret. So, you recognize that that sounds good, and then you play Over that D string that sounds good. That's pretty cool. You can pick that up.

This is all this is all just coming from experimenting, like not even knowing what that is. Let's pretend we are all pretend like I don't even know what that is. It just sounds okay. And maybe from experimenting more you'll find that this will sound good. I already know that sounds good. You know, doing what we're doing.

Now you have something that can be really cool here. So you can use that when you're just hanging out with friends or by yourself or whatever. Like You start playing around with that at a camp or something. So that's. So those are things that you can think about when just sitting down and you know, say you're like, done working on the exercises, or working on a song and you just like just kind of playing around. I mean, experiment with those sorts of things.

And again, like my instructor said, make music with the concepts that you learn. So I showed you how to do that with a chord. You can do that with, you know, a lot of the chords actually worked. If you shift them up and down, you can find where there's other cool other cool sounds from that cordon. Change, change chords using that same, same shape. So I'm just doing the G, the G shape here.

Now you can do that with what's called the caged chord system, C A, G, D, so the C chord. This is this would just be a starting point, I'm not saying you have to do this, this would just be a starting point with experimenting with chords. C. Do that with a could do that with G, showed you e with do what we just did. So you can do that with chords, just experimenting, just going all around. Now, I'll just explain to you a quick what we are doing here. In D. That's the one chord now actually, when you go up here you are playing a G chord.

This is what's called the GG If you're just playing the three strings, G, B and E string, that's called the G triad. If you add that D there, then it will kind of imply that you're in, you're playing in the key of D. This one here, so that's actually the A chord that's like going. And hopefully just from lots of experimenting, and, you know, somewhat from this course, and from, you know, learning more notes and scales and things like that, you'll start to understand, you know, the names of what you're playing. So I'll just show you is it somewhat from this course because we learn the scale we learned, for example, the G scale So we know on these last three strings, we know, for example, that B, C, D, this is a D note. So when we play the D chord here, the root note, which is important to start to recognize where the root note is in the chord, the D note is right here.

When you play here, that's a G note. So that's the root note of the triad. So hopefully start to recognize it also from say, for example, a diagram where it has all the notes on the fretboard and now you're not, don't go and try to memorize that. But just when you're playing around and experimenting and you find stuff that sounds good, it's not a bad idea to look on a diagram like that. And just recognize what note what notes or notes that you're playing. So you'll recognize Is that that's it, because this, the root note for this D chord is in the middle here.

And you're like, oh, that this sounds so that's the name of the chord D, right? This sounds really good. Well, I know that the root, the name of the chord is going to be this one right here because it's the same Monday. So you can look up on the chord diagram with that notice it's a G, that's a G. Now there's a cool thing that you can do is instead of So here, if you're learning a song, like D, G, D or something like that, then you can just experiment and go like back to the way to do this. Okay, so I just showed you a bunch of things that can happen, just from experimenting with the one chord to start with lots of different things happen. You can make all sorts of, you know, different sounds and really make your own music.

That's, to me, that's one of the goals. One of the main goals for learning music is to make your own. Now the other thing you can do is practice using or experimenting with scales. So for example, we know the G, the G scale. So let's just start for example, playing a G. So this will be like a two string, experimentation experiment and what you can do on two strings Sir, no nothing else. I just started pressing down.

Now I know where to go. But say you didn't know that. Then you would you, you know you, for example, you'd go. Okay, that's a little more safer and you start to recognize where the safe places are like here is Fred This is Fred, This is Fred would be safe one. This one is. Since I'm playing against the G, no, they're the G string.

It's actually playing in line with a G scale. So for example, someone's playing something in the key of G. You experimented with that little thing, just just having the knowledge that plane over that G. Note that constant G note or G string. Where you've worked out here is going to be something that's safe in the key of G. You could just start doing this sci fi play at the same time a bit. So my sounds something like that and they switch to see just some fun things you can do. So, congratulations, first of all if you made it to the end of this, but I hope that that gave you some ideas for experimenting to make your own music with and really just to help you understand the sounds and sounds that work well together in the context of the concepts that you have learned and will continue to learn.

So, take a D chord and go wild with it. See what you can do.