Layering Ambient Guitar Chords: how to get lush harmonies by blending chords together

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In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to blend ambient guitar chords together to create rich harmonies for your swells.
All based on this concept:
If we can stack 3rds at the note level, we can stack 3rds at the chord level, but harmonizing chords a 3rd apart, a 5th apart (and more!).
Hope you'll enjoy the lesson!
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This is the Ambient Guitar youtube channel of Canadian multi-instrumentist Antoine Michaud. Through original ambient music, chordal guitar lessons and tips on guitar pedals, Antoine is looking to educate and inspire aspiring ambient musicians to learn everything about the world of ambient guitar and chordal voicings on guitar.

[@jaydevmukhia]

Thanks for this trick...never thought about it..🤘🏼

[@adamboehm]

Ah this is a great lesson! Thanks for sharing your knowledge, Antoine.

[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

My pleasure!

[@silverhandle]

*mind blown*

[@oliverschellenberger7697]

Awesome! 4:30 made me wanna sing "Boys don't cry" ;-)

[@BradLongCo]

Nice tones, Antione!!

[@veeks1]

Great lesson. Thanks 👍

[@robertclarkguitar]

Great work man. This is alot of what I enjoy playing.Layers then solo how I feel.

[@softpillow9596]

Awesome lesson! 👏

[@claudegodcharles1790]

Just learned something... again! Merci Antoine

[@keshabbose5447]

Great lesson 👌

[@Sanjeet_1810]

Beautiful tutorial. Could you also make a video which talks about distortion tones for leads used in ambient songs?

[@ardisaja1244]

Great lesson antoine 👍

[@joseluque03]

Thank you!

[@KurtLorenz]

Nice.

[@MS-nj7id]

I have listened to various atmospheric artists in the past and always thought it would be a good genre to learn. I sub’d to your channel to see what you were offering. I watched a few and liked the instruction you gave. My question for you is how do I start learning this stuff? I play guitar already and am well acquainted with theory but watching you create all the layers in some of your songs gets me very confused. Any recommended road maps?

[@acousticfolkpassion776]

Great video, cool technique! Looking forward to sitting down with your mini course. What effects/pedals did you use here?

[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

Thanks :-) I'm using Delay (Strymon Timeline) and Reverb (Neunaber Immerse Mk II)

[@krokus5714]

The Best!

[@idontgivea1769]

How do you make the looper sound so good? On mine, the more stuff i add on a loop, the more blurry it gets, to the point where i can’t hear some of the stuff i’ve put on it!

[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

I use a looper that has 3 different channels, so sometimes it's great to have independent control on your loops to fine tune the volume. But honestly, it's all in the way you play it. You have to listen to what is already recorded and adjust the velocity of your picking or chord swells to fit what's already there. Looping is an art that takes practice, for sure, I was not really good when I first started!