9/17/23 update!
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Hey, YouTube informed me that they might have messed up this video in early 2023. If you notice anything weird please email me at [email protected]. Thanks!

6/29/23 update!
I can't believe this little video is still going and GOING! Guys, thanks for watching it means a lot. I've 500+ videos but this was one of the first and I didn't even originally make it for YouTube. I know it looks like it was made in 1984 instead of 2012, believe me. But the content is still very cool.

Please join me on Saturdays at 5pm ET for my free YouTube Guitar Q+A livestream. Just text your questions about learning the guitar and I'll answer as many as I can in about 2 hours. If you can't make it on Saturdays, the livestreams are available to watch afterwards and soon I'll be making them into podcasts as well. I look forward to your questions!

And if you're serious about getting better at the guitar, check out my website www.songbike.com. Lots of great content and PDFs stuff NOT AVAILABLE on YouTube.

I do online lessons too. Email me : [email protected]

By the way, I wrote an ebook to go along with this video. You can download THE DCG Trick book here ! www.songbike.com Get a copy now before the price goes up!

Full of great songs, riffs, exercises, TAB, photos, Pro Tips and 30 audio examples!
This is a GREAT book and I'm really proud of it. Good for beginners and intermediate guitarists alike. You can download it and print out the pages if you prefer a hard copy.

And I made a NEW DCG Trick video to go along with the book and you can see it here: www.songbike.com. I have LOTS of videos at www.songbike.com available to members please check it out !! And please subscribe to my YouTube channel!

UPDATE : I just posted a video of yet ANOTHER song that uses this trick: "Small Town" by John Mellencamp. Check it out here:    • "Small Town" Guitar Lesson Video (Joh...  

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Here's how to take your 3 favorite chords and turn them into something SPECIAL! So many songwriters and bands have employed the trick found here, and you can't really play a lot of famous tunes WITHOUT this technique. it's a MUST for your Bag of Tricks! It's not that it's hard it's EASY but you wouldn't think to do this DCG Trick without someone showing you. So it's a quick way to sound pro, and to learn a handful of famous tunes in the process. This DCG Trick has been used by acoustic AND electric guitar players, both with fingerpicking and flatpicking. If you can play your basic D C and G chords these might even feel easier. But these modified chords have a different musical tone than the standard D, C, and G and that's the trick! **ALERT: there are a few times in the video when the acoustic guitar takes on a sweet distorted tone which was unintentional, but delightful. Please don't email me to let me know, ok ? Thanks.