Chord Voicing Concepts Every Guitarist Should Know

I'm going to show you an approach to voicing chords on the guitar that's been very useful for me over the years. This is for folks who already know open chords and barre chords and want to go further with chord voicing.

First, start with a familiar chord progression. We'll play 4-5-1 in the key of C: F to G to C.

Here's the challenge: take that progression and voice it so that it's only on the low three strings of the guitar. How would you play it if you could only use three strings?

Then move up to the next set of strings and play the same progression. Keep going up the string sets.

By limiting myself to just sets of three strings, I get all kinds of interesting situations and voicings that have to happen. For me, that's a really interesting way to approach chords.