This song was released on Septemeber 12th of 2011.  It is the second single from ColdPlay’s fifth studio album entitled “Mylo Xyloto“.  This song was the best selling rock song of 2011 in the UK when it sold 410,000 copies.  Learn more about this song over at Wikipedia.

This is a fairly easy acoustic guitar song to play.  Marty designed this lesson so that you will only need to know one barre chord.  You will need to use a capo on the 3rd fret for this lesson.

The chords you will need to know for this song are:  E Minor, G Major, D Major, A Major, B Minor

Watch the video tutorial below to learn exactly how to play this song.

Paradise Coldplay Guitar Lesson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH9gnWN5748

A big thanks to Marty Schwartz for sharing this video lesson. Marty is an amazing guitar player and one of the best guitar instructors online. If you are serious about learning to play the guitar, you should definitely check out his website and sign up to receive his free beginner ebook or make a small investment for his Members Only Club and get access to over 640 of his online video lessons. I can’t recommend Marty’s Website enough.

As Performed by ColdPlay

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6ZWlDks0nQ

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The Dm7 Guitar Chord – Advanced  Voicings

The Dm7 is a beautiful sounding chord and often used in jazz guitar. You are welcome to scroll right down to the chord charts below or stick around for a little theory on how this chord is formed.

We must first look at the D Major Scale: D, E, F#, G, A, B, and C#.  All the notes needed to play our Dm7 chord can be found in this scale.  All we need to do is apply the following handy formula to this scale to find our notes.  That formula is: 1, b3, 5 and b7.  This gives us the notes: D, F, A and C.  The “b3″ symbol means that we take the 3rd step of the D Major Scale and flatten it by 1/2 step.  When we do this, our “F#” note becomes an “F”.  The “b7″ symbol is essentially the same only we are doing it to the 7th note in the scale, so our “C#” becomes a “C”.

D Minor 7  Chord notes: D, F, A and C

I have included 4 different versions of this chord below.  This is definitely not an easy chord to finger if you are a beginner.  It involves advanced techniques like Barre Chords and string muting.   Good Luck!

Here is a key that will help you read the charts:

Everything on the above chart should be self explanatory, except for the last three in the third column. They may need a bit of explaining. The O, or open symbol, simply means that you do not press down on any notes on that string. The X means you do not strum that particular string. The Barre symbol means you need to barre that particular fret. When you barre a fret you are pressing down on multiple strings at the same time with one finger.

Dm7 Video Demonstrations

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-Y6shPSZs4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEw5egGi-vM

If you would like to learn how to play this chord right now, you can scroll down to the chord charts below.  If you would like to learn a bit of theory behind this chord first, then read on.

This chord is formed from the D Major Scale: D E F# G A B C#.  As you can see, there are 7 notes found in this scale.  In order to find the notes that make up the D Dominant 7 Chord, we need to use the following formula: 1, 3, 5, b7.   This means that we take the 1st, 3rd, 5th and b7 steps of the D Major Scale above, or the notes: D, F#, A and C.   The “b7″ symbol means that we take the 7th step of this scale (C#) and we flatten it by 1/2 step giving us our “C” note.

The notes of the D7 Chord again are: D  F# A C.

Here is a key that will help you read the chart:

Everything on the above chart should be self explanatory, except for the last three in the third column. They may need a bit of explaining. The O, or open symbol, simply means that you do not press down on any notes on that string. The X means you do not strum that particular string. The Barre symbol means you need to barre that particular fret. When you barre a fret you are pressing down on multiple strings at the same time with one finger.

This second D7 chord is technically a chord inversion because the D note is no longer the bass note or lowest pitch. The A note now becomes the bass note.  It is still referred to as a D7 chord though.  If you play it, you will notice it sounds just like the D7 chord.

Chord Playing Tip: Be sure that you are pressing down on the string hard enough. You should play each string one at a time to make sure you have a nice clean sound. If any of the strings buzz or sound muted, then something is not right.

D7 Guitar Chord Video

The video below will demonstrate how to play the D7 Barre Chord on both the 5th and 10th frets.  Thanks to the folks over at Howcast.com for sharing this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS9TqzxB3VA

In the following post, you will learn how to play several advanced voicings of the Em Guitar Chord.  Follow this link for an easy beginner version of the E Minor Guitar Chord.

To form the Em Guitar Chord, we take the 1, b3 and 5 positions of the E Major Scale: E, F#, G#, A, B, C#, and D#, or the notes E, G and B.  That little “b3″ symbol  means that we take the 3rd step of this scale and flatten it by 1/2 step, giving us our “G” note. When we flatten a note, we go back 1/2 step in this scale, so the “G#” becomes a “G”.  Pretty easy stuff right?

E Minor Chord notes: E G B

Here is a key that will help you read the chart:

Everything on the above chart should be self explanatory, except for the last three in the third column. They may need a bit of explaining. The O, or open symbol, simply means that you do not press down on any notes on that string. The X means you do not strum that particular string. The Barre symbol means you need to barre that particular fret. When you barre a fret you are pressing down on multiple strings at the same time with one finger.

There are 4 advanced voicings of this chord pictured below in the chord charts.  These chords are advanced because you need to know how to both mute strings and play barre chords.  These are techniques that only come with practice, so hang in there and keep at it…

Just like all other chords, make certain that you are pushing your fingers down firmly on the strings. Play each string one at a time to see if the strings are producing a clean sound.

E Minor Guitar Chord Video

Below is a video demonstration on how to play the E Minor Barre Chord on the 7th Fret.  Thanks to the folks over at http://www.mahalo.com/ for sharing this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ4u0q9Fn3g

Learn Great Tunes Then Improvise

Listen to your favourite tune and try to memorize the melody and the chord structure.

Get a feel for how the song works, how the chords fit together and the bass line of the song. Learn the song exactly as it is.

Once you have it mastered start improvising by changing little bits here and there. If something doesn’t sound right you can always go back to the original, or try something different.

Learn Guitar Scales ‘Crabwise’

This is a great way to learn a bunch of different scales in one go.

Simply, play a scale downwards. When you reach the last note play the next scale in the series on the upwards movement.

This is easier to explain with an example.

Let’s take the C major scale. You would play the C major scale downwards then the C# major scale upwards then the D major scale downwards and so on.

Get out of the box.

This is a great tip form Joe Cefalu.

When you learn scales in different positions along the fret board you tend to learn in one position, then the next, then the next.

Your playing can sound very ‘boxy’ and movement between the different positions loses fluidity when you learn this way.

Joe’s neat trick is to learn in string pairs instead of box positions.

So, for example you would play all the notes of the scale in the first two positions, but you would only play the top two strings. You would then play the first three positions but only the top two strings.

You can repeat this up the fret board including more and more positions but only playing one pair of strings at any one time.

Embrace Repetition

Scott Henderson talks about this in one of his videos.

I won’t go into it in detail now but when you’re playing solos it’s important to have a certain amount of repetition otherwise the listener can never get a ‘feel’ for the song.

Play in Key and Over Chords

Although most guitarists play one way or another it’s important to practice both techniques.

• When you play in key you will only play the scale of the key the song is in.
• When you play with chords you change scales every time there is a chord change. When you do play with chord changes it’s important to land on a common note as you change scales.

Learn the scale both in terms of notes and in terms of intervals

A key point to understanding guitar scales is to learn them both in terms of notes and intervals.

You have to remember that a scale is defined by the intervals between the notes, not by the notes themselves. Learning a scale in terms of intervals will give you a greater ‘feel’ for the scales sound.

Take notice of bad notes.

Sometimes when you are playing a scale over a chord you will hit on a note that although theoretically correct sounds wrong. It’s a good idea to keep tabs on notes like these for future reference.

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Dave Thomas is a guitarist and writer for http://www.learnguitarblog.com

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