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Bring Simple Chord Progressions to Life - Cropper, Hendrix & Mayfield-Inspired Soul Rhythm Guitar (Patreon)

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2026-05-09 16:12:04
Edited:
2026-05-17 08:21:32
Imported:
2026-05

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Hi all!

The new video is up and this one is about adding fills, connections and melodic ideas to a simple chord progression in the soul style, all loosely inspired by the playing of Cropper, Hendrix and Mayfield.

It's a subject I find myself returning to from time to time as there's always more to explore. I work through four choruses based around the 1-4-5 chords in the key of A, with each time through introducing new ideas - major pentatonic fills, double stops, sixths, spread triads and more. Tab and a backing track are below.

I'm off to Italy in the morning for the first of this year's guitar workshops which I'm massively looking forward to. It's going to be great to take a little break from the computer screen and do some in-person teaching and playing for a change. I have, however, filmed some extra content in advance, so look out for that in a week or so's time.

Hope you enjoy the video; any questions just let me know in the comments.

-Adrian

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Bring Simple Chord Progressions to Life — Cropper, Hendrix & Mayfield-Inspired Soul Rhythm Guitar

In this video I work through a simple 1-4-5 based chord progression in A, building it up over four choruses with fills, connections and melodic ideas in the soul style - loosely inspired by the playing of Steve Cropper, Jimi Hendrix and Curtis Mayfield. Each chorus introduces new ideas: major pentatonic fills, double stops, sixths, spread triads and more, all designed to show how you can take a simple chord progression and make it more musical and expressive. Tab and a backing track are available over on my Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/anyonecanplayguitar Chapters 00:00 Hi 00:39 Performance 01:58 Understanding the chord progression 03:57 Chorus 1 04:12 Simple arpeggios 04:54 Classic soul fill ideas 10:39 Chorus 2 10:50 major pentatonic fills 14:15 Chorus 3 14:30 Sliding 4ths 16:11 Spread triads 18:09 Chorus 4 18:20 Embellishing chord shapes 18:55 Country 6ths 20:44 A Hendrix-y final lick 21:46 Gear 22:48 Bye 🎸 Patreon (tabs & backing track): https://www.patreon.com/anyonecanplayguitar 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/acpgtr/ My in-depth course library: https://courses.anyonecanplayguitar.co.uk My latest album: https://zodiactoys.bandcamp.com/releases SUBSCRIBE for more: https://bit.ly/3Efy0W3 Check out my website: https://www.anyonecanplayguitar.co.uk

Comments

Noel Shrum

Excellent video. So many ideas. Thanks for playing the chord progression. I will use it to practice with a looper...slowly.

Paul

So much useful stuff and not hard to get the head or fingers around it. Beautiful piece and a masterful lesson. Adrian. Thanks!

NB

Thanks very much Adrian - enjoy your Italian excursion - hope to participate in one sometime!

Jim Moore

A very useful lesson. Thank you for sharing, Adrian.

Peter Beck

Love it ! Simple progression with lots of useful ideas. Thank you for the references to other lessons throughout .

Philip McDonagh

Loving this lesson, I'm trying to pick a progression a week to really nail a nice selection of them in my inner library, combining these type of exercises into that keeps it entertaining

Scott

Bon Voyage. Look forward to some Fellini inspired sound track video upon your return! Ciao

Sparkles

Excellent lesson Adrian, this is really working for me to help me improvise!

david kelly

Thank you for this. It’s my favourite lesson to date. It brings together so many aspects I need to work on in a lovely tune that I really want to play well.