Learn to play Steve Lacy's "Helmet" with a breakdown of the eight-bar loop and chord progression: Cmaj7, A major, D9, Dm9, and Bm7. The instructor shows finger placement and a seven-stroke down-strum pattern for each chord.
Hey guys. Today we're gonna be taking a look at Helmet by Steve Lacy. This is one of my favorite tunes off the new album and I'll play it once and then I'll show you guys how.
Oh, I'm thinking soon. I'm not for sale. Well, what the hell, I've been with you but this won't last me forever.
And then it just repeats like that. Okay, so this is an eight bar loop. And the fortunate part is that there's only one chord difference between the two loops. So the first chord is going to be something I'm sure a lot of you are very familiar with. This is going to be A C major 7 chord.
Top on the screen there.
And so for each of these chords, we're going to do a down strum seven times. Going to sound like this.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun. So that's going to be the pattern for all of them. So we've got our C major 7. And then after that we're going to play an A major chord and then you'll, you'll do the strumming pattern. So it'll sound like this.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. 1, 2, 3, four, five, six, seven.
After that we've got a D7 chord. Sounds like, or more like a D9 chord.
4, 5, 6, 7.
And then all we're gonna do for the next chord is we're gonna bring it our pointer finger down a half step to this D minor 9. And that's the first half of it. So just to review, it's gonna go.
C major 7.
A major, D dominant 9, D minor 9. And the next time is the same C major 7Amajor D 9. And then this one's gonna be, this one's gonna be different. We're gonna play a B minor 7 and then that 8 bar loop just repeats the whole time. So I'll just play it one time in completion just so you guys get the idea and yeah, have fun with it. Awesome. Enjoy guys. If you want the bass line, I could also do that in another video, so leave a comment if that's interesting. See ya.
