In this tutorial, Anders Mouridsen will be teaching you how to "embellish" your open chords. This is called "suspension", which is a big word for a very simple thing: adding a finger! Anders will demonstrate a good tone to use for this, then show you how to add a finger to spice up your open A, D, E, and G chords. To conclude, we'll put it all together and apply it to an easy practice tune.

In this tutorial we'll look at some super cool and useful embellishments that you can add to your basic open chords. Think of the open chords as the cake and the embellishments as adding icing or decoration. We'll go through some of the most common examples of open chord embellishments

Shows how to approach playing various single note embellishments within barre chords.

In the following lessons, we'll learn about sus2 and sus4 chords, and how to add them to open and barre chords, as well as outline them with double stops and triads. We'll play through examples of each concept, and finish up with a practice tune that combines them all.

Basic chords in a few keys are used to show some basic country embellishment techniques.