The Weeknd and Daft Punk is a true match made in heaven, and as always with Daft Punk, we have some really cool funky guitar chords that Thomas demonstrates in this lesson. It's great if you want to improve your funky chops!
We are using very specific 'little' chord shapes for this track, to help us get that funky groove! The are all based around triad chorsds, which are just our baisc major and minor chords. Here they all are:
The rhythm for the chords is based around a 16th note pattern, and is best played when you keep your hand moving up and down on every 16th note. The rhythm itself is this:
During the bridge you have a very slightly different rhythm pattern, which is shown here.
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The Weeknd is at his synth pop best here, with another great 4 chord masterpiece. For us guitar players we can learn a relatively easy was to strum through this track, as well as learn that really cool pentatonic melody.