Ballad in G

Jam track · Slow ballad · Ballad · G major scale

Now

G

Next

G
  1. G
  2. D
  3. Em
  4. C

G major scale · box 1

Orange dots are G, the home note.

357F♯GABCDEF♯GABCDEF♯GA

Play long notes and let them ring. On each new chord, start on the orange note under your fingers.

70BPMJam tempo

Ballad in G backing track

A slow ballad in G at 70 BPM, with a ballad groove on drums, bass and rhythm guitar. The loop is 4 bars long and uses 4 chords: G, D, Em, C. Solo over it with the G major scale box shown on the fretboard.

The chords

  1. G
  2. D
  3. Em
  4. C

What to play

Play long notes and let them ring. On each new chord, start on the orange note under your fingers.

The orange dots are G, the home note. While the band plays, the notes of the chord playing now light up. Ending a phrase on one of them sounds settled.

Learn the box firstScale drill

How to practise with it

  1. Play the box up and down once with the band, one note per beat, to hear how it fits.
  2. Make up a two-bar phrase and repeat it. Change one note each time round.
  3. Leave gaps. A phrase, then a bar of rest, sounds more like music than notes all the way through.
  4. Turn the guitar off and play the chords yourself, or slow the tempo down to learn the changes.

Drums: Sonic Pi sample library from freesound.org, CC0. Bass and guitar: MusyngKite soundfont by Benjamin Gleitzman, CC BY-SA 3.0.