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1. Introduction: Always want them to
learn the guitar, but didn't know where to start. This class is for you. This is guitar learning my
AT for absolute beginners. Hi, I'm Anthony pellet, guitar teacher who's taught
thousands of lessons to hundreds of students in my
hometown here, if Melbourne, Australia, as a guitar teacher was 30 to 40 weekly students, I use my diverse musical
experience and music degree. It's entitled listens
to individual students from all levels and all ages. In this beginner guitar class, you're going to learn
how to play strand and pick the central chords
using popular songs. These chords form the foundation
of guitar playing and can be used in thousands of
songs and various styles. I'll teach you which fingers
to use for corn chips and had effectively changed
between these shapes. You will also learn how strong these chords with
strumming patterns, rhythms to make these
songs come together. Finally, I will show you how to pick the individual strings of chords to create
beautiful arpeggios. As written songs such as
nothing else matters by Metallica and House of the
Rising Sun by the animals. These lessons include
17 well-known songs, that's backing
tracks and you can download and practice
with these songs will be demonstrated
in broken down into steps in each lesson video. Your class project will be
to record audio or video of yourself strumming
and picking along to your favorites from the
provided backing tracks. In this class, you will
learn the parts of the guitar with essential
accessories and practice tools. But now it's a music. How to tune your guitar,
how to hold your guitar, the guitar pick, how
to play a major, minor and dominant seven chords. How to change effectively
between these chord shapes had his drum and time while learning various
drumming patterns, you will also learn
how a Keiko can be used to easily change keys. Isn't the chord shapes shown in the class play open-end movable power chord
shapes using hard rock, punk rock, and metal. How to read guitar tab and pick the individual strings of the
guitar to play out patios. Once you've mastered
these codes and skills, you will be amazed at how many of your favorite songs
that you can play. So grab your guitar
and let's get rocking.
2. Parts Accessories Holding Practice: Hi, I'm Anthony. In this first lesson,
we're going to look at some basic concepts and to get familiar with
what the guitar is before we start
playing any music. So here we're going to look
at parts of the guitar. What types of guitars
there are out there, accessories and practice tools. We're going to look at
how they hold the guitar, how we hold this good topic, and also how they can get into an effective daily
practice routine. I fessed up for the
parts of the guitar. We have the headstock, which is where the tuners are placed, where the strings
run through the tuners all the way along the fretboard or the fingerboard
here based on the neck, which is obviously this
whole long thing here. We also have the
strings run through, holding the strings through
here on the headstock, all the way down to
the bridge, which is the opposite end of
the guitar itself. On an acoustic guitar, we have the sound hole
here which projects the sound of the guitar body. I also have a pick out here, protecting the guitar body
from any scraping on the body. And you get these obviously
on electric guitars as well. This guitar also has a cutaway where part of the body has been chopped away so I can access these highlights
more easily. There are three main types
of guitars you can consider. There is the nylon string
acoustic guitar or the classical guitar
use obviously for classical music and flamenco
music and some other styles, such as bossa nova,
resume guitar playing. The other acoustic
guitar type you can look at is a steel string
acoustic guitar, which is what I have
here, used a lot in rock, pop, blues music, and
folk music, of course. The third type of guitar
is the electric guitar, which you hear
obviously a lot in rock music and other styles, jazz and things like that. The idea of an electric
guitar is that you can plug that into an
amplifier and be much louder than the acoustic guitar. And he's effects like
distortion overdrive to give you a more
sustained sound. Accessories from
playing the guitar and put the good topic, which is this little thing here, I use the strumming chords and playing individual
strings and notes. I recommend getting
a good topic that is 1 mm in thickness as anything
is thinner than that, can be a bit hard to
pick individual strings. Guitar tune has come
in various styles. There's the clip
on the top tuna, which uses the vibration
of the guitar tune. Or you can also get
these more old school, choose whichever microphone
built into them. You can also get an app
on your phone which uses the microphone on your
phone to tune your guitar. Or you can also get
guitar pedals which people plug their electric
guitars into as well. We'll work on the
same principles which we'll go through shortly. Also consider getting
a guitar strap to hold the guitar up as you're standing or to hold it in position as well
as sitting down. Other guitar accessories
include a footstool, which you can use to raise the guitar body lake
when sitting down. Final accessory I might
mentioned now is the KPI, which we can use to
change key on the guitar, which we will go through
in a later lesson. Practice tool I would highly recommend getting
is a metronome. You can get these as
apps on your phone. I mentioned, and it gives you a steady beat that
you can practice strumming and time with or
playing notes in time with. You can also consider using
a drum machine as an app. Or you can find drawn lids on YouTube and Spotify as well, which are a bit more fun than just a click
of the metronome. When sitting and
holding the guitar, there are two basic positions. There is a classical
position where the guitar is placed
on the left leg. And my case been a
right-handed player. And the body is in-between your legs and you
use a footstool to raise this leg on this side, the left leg, and
to hold the guitar. The idea of this position
is that this will hold your hand in a
position this way. So when we're playing, these awkward stretchy code shows which you generally
play in classical guitar, your hand is more
flexible for that. But in terms of most
people playing guitar and contemporary settings,
rock, pop, blues, etc, the guitar
will be placed on the right leg for a
right-handed player. You can also use a
footstool again to raise that body like if you
need to or otherwise, you can just have a low chair to the floor so that your leg is fairly flat so they could tell what slide off your thigh. So another thing to
be aware of when holding the guitar
is that a lot of the guitar body weight
is positioned or held by this arm
here in particular, it's actually holding the
body of the guitar so it doesn't fall out of my
hands and would take my elbow off here. It's going to just
pull out that. I'm not actually holding the weight
of the guitar with his hand. It's all on this arm. So I'm not locking my
hand trying to hold this guitar because I'm
trying to move chords around. You can also use a
guitar strap to hold the guitar and place
when you're standing. And obviously you can also use it when you're sitting too. I don't mind having
the sum over the top of the neck because like, gee, we'll look at in future
lessons. It's okay. I also have the sun
behind the neck pointing upwards as well. But I just watch out
for the sound going sideways as you can see
in the photo there. But we'll show it here as well. Otherwise, if you're
having a thumb over net position pointing away, sideways, you will
find your shoulder will come up in the hand, will be very tense
and very hard to actually hold good clear chord shapes with your thumb going sideways or creeping
under the neck. Holding the good topic. So the recommended way to hold the good topic is shown in
this photo is they have a fixed shape and the thumb flat on the top
of the guitar pick there. And that gives you
could surface area of pressure on the
top of the peak and the curvature of the
finger here to hold the peak. Well, so the pick one, swivel and wobble
too much as you're strumming chords and
picking individual strings. If we just hold the
pick casually like so, you'll find very quickly, it'll start wobbling
out of your hand and fly out onto the floor
and then you're in trouble. So this grip gives you a good firm hand-held as your
strumming chords. When we're playing, it's
also very important to think about what
fingers are we using? The finger number
system is fairly easy. Finger 123.4. So we want to first finger, second finger, finger, finger on the fret
board, et cetera. And we'll use these
finger numbers. Woman playing the sport
shapes in future lessons. I playing the guitar,
it's recommended to practice a little
bit every day, especially as you're
starting out, you're going to develop
muscle memory and calluses, enhanced drink ten
to 20 min a day at least to get started, to try and get into a
routine you can use or practice log here,
which I'll supply. You can lock in how many minutes you're doing every day as you practice and just try
and work on those exercises. So set a time in the morning
or the evening where you know that you can practice
consistently every day. So to summarize
this first lesson, we've looked at
parts of the guitar, thompson guitar, guitar
accessories and practice tools. How to hold the guitar,
how to hold the guitar? Pick your course and I've given you some daily
practice tips. Next up, we're going to
look at what the notes of music and how to
tune your guitar.
3. Music Notes & Tuning: In this lesson, we're going
to look at the notes in music and how to
tune your guitar. So now let's have
a look at music itself and how it works. So the notes of music, I, B, C, D. And then the next step following GI guy
up this scale here is so we do the alphabet all
over again for my BCD G. And that will repeat going all the way up the guitar neck. So that would be the
same on a piano, violin, and trumpet,
any instrument. That's how people can play in bands and orchestras together. So the role-playing A's
and G's together or notes at harmonize well, giving you codes and
beautiful sounds. At this stage, you don't need to know all the notes
on the guitar neck, but you just need to know
that there's no XCode, there's no hatred scale, anything funny like that. But we will need to know what the notes are, these
individual strings. So the guitar is tuned to
these particular nodes, B, a, D, G, B, and E. And this is
65431 strings as well. So it's sort of upside
down in terms of counting. So that is a, so everything is flipped upside
down in terms of pitch. So the trick to learn what these open strings
out when we're tuning your guitar is a dynamite. By. If you memorize that, that's all you need to
know as you're tuning your guitar to this
particular nodes. So the guitar tuner
I'm going to use here is a clip on guitar
tuner placed on the end of the headstock
here it picks up the vibration of the guitar string through the guitar body. If I then pluck the
first string here, you'll see that the
needle will go to the middle here and show
you that it's in tune, goes green on this
particular model. So we've got an E in June
there be on the second string, on the third string, D
on the fourth string, on the fifth string, and then E on the sixth
string, then inside, then if you want to
tune your guitar, if I put this festering
down the bottom here, slightly out it down a bit, you'll see that the needle will move slightly to the side. And so I'm trying to get
it back into the middle. It's a bit like the
spirit level when you are putting your
shelves have at home, trying to get it right in
the middle. I'm in tune out. So basically the charitable work like that on every
single string. So one thing to be
careful of is not chewing your notes
too sharp notes. So if I had the G string here, that's in shame,
but then I might deliberately turn
it up too high. They sit a little hashtag symbol this to appear on the side here, which is going to
turn it to a G-sharp. So if I keep going,
what unit here? I think I'm treating
Okay, But I'm actually changed to G sharp, which is a wrong
one night too high. And if I play this G chord, this will sound very weird. Sounds a bit wrong, doesn't it? So this string here
shouldn't be G-sharp. Should actually be G or
the called G-natural. There's normal genes. So I need to go down. And we'll flip back there. You can see that little
sharp thing disappeared. Sister g of x normal. Then I can play J and it
should sound nice now. So in this lesson, we've
now learned about the notes of music and how to
tune the guitar. Except we're going to learn
in your first three chords, a, D, and E Major. And I'm going to lead
to tune out of it, which is going to be wild thing.
4. Diagrams A D E Chords Wild Thing: Here I'm going to show you
how to read chord diagrams. Basically, when you
look at the picture of the chord diagram here, the lines going down the strings and the law is coming
across the frets. And then the black
dots are going to be the fingers, whether
you're on the fret board. And when you see
the zeros there, that means you can pluck
those open strings, but if you see a cross on
top of one of those drinks, it avoid hitting that string. But as a beginner, I'm
not too worried if you accidentally hit that
string occasionally. The first three chords
we're going to learn here, a major, D major, E major. And I've picked these three
chords because they've probably the easiest
to change between. As a beginner guitar player, these three chords
using heaps of songs including wild thing, desire, bye you too, bye bye. Loved by the Everly Brothers. Free-falling by Tom Petty, Gloria by Van Morrison. I can't explain. By the WHO, Louie, Louie by the Kingsmen rock
and ROC k in the USA, by John Cougar, Mellencamp, little birds by Bob Marley, and heaps of other songs. To play the a chord, we're going to start
with my first finger on fret of the G string, the third string from the floor. My second finger will
now also go on fret too, but it's on the D string, one string higher up
towards the ceiling. And then my third finger here on the video you can
see squeezing in on the second string on
the fret too as well, but underneath, so I
have three fingers on a rope, but
they're all mixed up. So you can see the
diagram here popping up. We have the finger
numbers of 12.3, all in a row there in
the open zeros above the a string and the
Eastern on the bottom there showing that we can play
those open strings as well. There's an x on the top
eastern you can play it, but it's preferable not
to again, send bit mushy. But as a beginner, if you
strum that by accident, that isn't a major issue. So then once you have
your fingers in place, press down fairly hot
and we're going to pick our way through all of those
five strings from the, a string to the floor. And so hopefully you have a
nice clear sound like that. If you're finding that
any of the notes and muted, not quite working, it's simply because
either pressing down hard enough or your fingers not
quite in the right spot. One of the keys to getting a good sound is to
ensure that the thing is as far forward as possible to the threat towards the
guitar body itself. So if you're back here, it can be much higher
in the press down. Good, Stay with
this version of a, makes sure that
these fingers are as far forward as possible, especially this first finger
which can be left behind. So you really have a
bunch of those things in place and also make sure we're not leaning on the adjacent bottom stream
with the edge of the fingers, things like that as well,
which can also cause problems. There is an alternative way
of playing a with fingers 123 in a row, which
is okay as well. Like so which is the
same that we've got? Obviously those three fingers, 123 all lined up without the mixture
of one in the middle. I do prefer this version. I was one in the middle, second on top, third underneath. Because then the next
chord we're going to learn for Wilding and
lots of other songs where AND is stuck together is involving the idea of this
first thing got not moving. So now we're heading
towards D. So first thing is their
second finger underneath, third finger in front, we've
got this triangle shape, five strings to the bottom. Watch. So again, pressing down hard, making sure we're not leaning on the adjacent strings and things
like that as we go along, you have to also try and avoid
planes top string as well. Otherwise it can get
a bit mushy sounding. As we practice this code. A lot of pressure. Again, one of the main issues I see with people playing
this quote is that this top figure here can touch the adjacent
string underneath. So make sure you're
not leaning over and getting in the way of the
bottom stream, reaching it. So I can show we have
a nice clear space under there as we play along. Other things to watch out for Tuesday spawn finger is also well pressurized to balance that out because you can
stand out if you do find that your fingers are
collecting too much like this, that should really be on their tippy-toes on
that side angle, you can see it's really on
the tips of my fingers. That will give you
a direct sound. This is leaning over sideways. If you find that that's
hard to get those things to stand upright with your
thumb on top like I have. Bring the sun down behind. So he's pointing
upwards like that. That will help a bit as well to get those fingers extending off. It's like having good posture. The chip, having those fingers very upright will give
you a nice clear sound. The third quarter of Goodall
wild thing is E major. And the magic of
this, which is again, the reason why I picked
these three courses that start with the first
finger doesn't lift off. These two will, I'm going
to slide this specimen, get back one frame across
towards the north here for it, 12 things up second and
third on the top there. And this is now E
major six drinks. All those guys together. Again, making sure
we're nice and upright. We're not leaning on adjacent
strings on the tippy toes, my fingers looking like so
and it's small shop there. And then in the song
we just reversed back to the slide back. Second thing on the bottom, food and the front
triangle times the chord. That's the final
chord of the song, where it goes round and round
in a circle is back, home, back to a firstName is
their second on top, underneath all
squished in together. And then I'll say chicken each
string, it's working well. So as a beginner, usually you
spend the first week or two just pick any way
through these chords, pressurizing, fudging notes, not pressing hard enough or leaning sideways and
then sliding pair up. And as you're doing this
exercise round and round, you'll get better and better. And you'll learn to
memorize these shapes. You're already at
the point where you started doing this in time. So these three chords are
gonna be used to play the classic song. While thing. The timing for this in the
streaming is very simple. I just basically the two
strands and down, down, down, down, down, down,
down and ran it out. There's a little gap
before the D with me Click to give you time
to get to the day. Count here, if you're
into accounting, it's in 44 is most
rock music is 33343. And back to the demo
Draco credit there. And there's a backing track
you can play along with, is that 70 bpm is, the aim is to practice up to that speed and see
if you can play along following the baseline. Then the other part of the
wild thing with the stops. And you really based around
the a and the G chord. But as you're just starting
out in the guitar, we will show you a cheating, easy or hit play and
g was no fingers. So we have the big break, which is the a chord. But I want to know for sure. And then to go from ga, ga, we're going to play G is three
are constraints which are the DDB strings to
these three guys. The GB, which the strings
43.2 from the floor. To make our life easy, we've got a big eye hanging out in space and then we've
got the open strings. I dreamed. That little riff is like an on and off thing
of the a chord. Basically, the big
challenges beginning here is to try and avoid
hitting the wrong strings. But if you do, it
doesn't matter too much. Extra sounded like punk rock. Give me some attache. In this lesson, we've learned
how to read chord diagrams, how to play the
three chords if a, D, and E major, and how to efficiently
change between them while learning how to
play the song Wild thing. Then the next lesson we're
going to learn another code, the G chord, and some
basic strumming patterns. And we're going to learn the
song warning by Green Day.
5. G Chord Strumming & Warning: So in this lesson,
we're going to learn a new cord, the G chord. Set to play this chord. We have our first finger
here on the fifth string, the ice stream from two from the top or far from the floor. Second finger now it
goes to fret three on the sixth string and
the top, your head, that third finger is
down the bottom on fret three on the first
string knew the floor. And then we've got
all six strings. Again, just making sure
everyone's really pressurizing. As a beginner, I do
find quite a lot of people happy issue pressurizing
the bottom finger. That's a bit of a stretch. For the first time. For some people, it is a
doable shape to get going. With the G chord here,
we're going to use this G chord combined with the D and the a chord to
play a new song which is wanting buy grain day. And strumming pattern to
this song is very simple. It's just down, up,
down, up all the way. So, so far with wild thing, we just had basic downstrokes, but now we're going
to practice just trimming down and up, creating a more exciting
with them on the guitar. So first off, we're going
to look at the idea to strumming down on the beat. So whether you have
a metronome going on the click, or in this case, we're going to use a
drum machine playing a four for rock beat for,
for, for rock song. We're going to strum
just on the downbeat, which will sound like this. The seizing the G chord. So this is 90 BPM, which is the same speed as
the slow version of the song. So here we go streaming
to stand down Trans three for every struggling just
on the basic strongly. An African instrument on
the offbeat as well with an upstream to the next
level is going down, up, down, up, down,
up, down, up. So the idea here is that we want the strumming
to be even paste. Our downstream should
be the same speed as that abstract at a
consistent tempo, keeping in time
with the drumbeat. And another thing to astronomy
is to have the rest relax, but a good firm grip
of the peak with that thick holding as we
talked about earlier on, I feel on how to
pick the right way. This is where it starts
flying out of your hand and start switched twisting
around anything, just having a nice,
good, firm grip there will make
this much easier. For me if I caught
painting the wall, the paintbrush not
digging into hard, but you're not too limp wrist is going to be flying
all over the place. So we have a good, good fabric, but I'm not pushing
hard and I'm just naturally brushing over the
strings with microscopic. So we'll try it
again, three and 4.1. And now we're going to look at some basic
strumming variations combining these two concepts of the down and the down,
up strumming patterns. Here is a fairly common
strumming patterns, which is down, down, down, down a lot strumming pattern for this little
section is going to be down, down, down. So you can combine these throwing patents in
various ways and various songs at
various temperatures to make them sound more
interesting and very. Sit in quotes we mentioned
before such as D, What we want to avoid storming
the top Eastern here, otherwise it can
sound a bit mushy. This is just my spirits. That was six strings
versus five. So we really want
to avoid hitting this top string otherwise
the courts can sound a bit muddy and mushy
Sandy sort of factors that I actually leading
the guitar back slowly. And when I come
in from my Strom, I'm actually going to dive
bombing on the ice cream. And when I come up, lift off. So I already believe
might be strong for streams instead of five, it's much safer to not hit
it and hit that top stream. So I'm coming in and then it's like I'm taking off and landing my playing on my
driveway of streams. This top guy as much as possible versus being more straight up my way through all
those drinks that's sort of been aware
of that for me cause I codes and
other codes later on, we'll make a big
difference to how quickly your chords will sound. So the courts for
warning by Green Day, a major, D major,
just one wealthy. But then we jump to g. Let me jump back to D. So
as you can see, the jump from G to
D involved with three fingers jumping
two different strings. A little bit harder than
the a to D connection. You might have to
practice that again. And ultimately we want to have
the group going together, group coming back together
and we'll take a bit of work. You probably find as beginner that you'll probably
get these two guys and this one might be
laid down that way. Or some people tend to go the bottom finger
first and the other to light as we go
through from D to G. But ultimately, you want
to be able to play what I call a guitar shape. Here's my a guitar G chord
and then land it as a group. Hello Ninjas launching onto
the floor or whatever. The same as the devil
and try and get that triangle shape in space
and let it as beginning, you will probably tend
to get these two guys and this one might
be if you'd like, but just sort of like
Hey, starting out. But ultimately we want to
practice going backwards and forwards like that
Reimann space for change. But for now, that's okay. And so this song, ultimately, it's fairly quick. So I have a slow version
and a fast version, slight version is that 90 became speed with this practice
for those coming exercises. So the strumming,
that is very simple. The idea is basically
down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down. Every code, the same thing
that goes around, that around. So let's do a few
more refined I, down, up, down, up. So you can see it's
a great exercise in trying to connect. New code changes. Constantly strumming
the same things. Ultimately, this streaming
becomes non-stop, like imagining that as the beginning you will
probably find you're going to have to go down a, D, G and so forth,
which is quite fine. And if you want to
try experiments drumming along with
either my slope, my fast backing tracks, all with green dye track itself. You can even experiment throwing away this drumming
initially and just going okay to seek and keep up the slow version or the fast version just
hitting one chord each. You might find that
it's a bit too quick initially to try and get this drumming and the
core changes altogether. Another middle step between
those two versions, between the fulcrum and the singles Trump is
to do two strands. So you can go through this down. That's not allowed to
develop. And you read them. In this lesson, we've
learned how to play the G chord and how to play that in the song
warning by green die, while learning some basic
strumming patterns. In the next lesson,
we're going to learn the difference between
major and minor chords. And we're going to
learn how to play the E minor chord and
the C major chord. And combining that with
the G and the D chord, we're going to learn
how to play the song, Stand By Me, by Benny King.
6. C Major E Minor Stand By Me: Here we're looking at
the difference between E major, E minor. So all I've done to go from E major to a minor is
take the first thing God gives you that sat at Dhaka sound versus the
happy major sound for E major. A minor chord is
simply changing. One of the Knights of the
core to make it sound setup. Another I play E minor
is use fingers 1.2, which is what we're gonna do in this upcoming song
of Stand By Me. Because it will
make it easier to connect to the other
cores and the song. So first finger is
now beyond fret two and second fingers
also in fret too on the neighboring string
underneath side on the a and the D at the fifth
and the fourth strings. A mnemonic or again, just make sure we don't lean on the edge of VJs and streams or the bottom of the
hand is not touching the bottom string to get a
nice clear E minor sound. The other corner
we're going to need for this standby Mason, and the second is
the C major chord. So we're going to play
this with my first finger here on Fred, one of the second string, second finger on freight
to the fourth string, fourth string, third finger
on fret of the fifth string. And we have C major
five streams of the floor on this chord,
giving you that subnet. And again, this one's
a little bit more challenging because we're
gonna make sure we're not leaning over here squashing other strings or
adjacent neighbors. And we have an octopus
down to try and make sure that the thing
that is standing upright, as you can see here, my little closed shop
there, that's C major. Here's a demo for standby me, and we'll run through
how we do that. The first quarter in
Stand By Me is G freeway, previously in the
morning Green Day song. Then a second chord in the
song is going to be E minus. So we're going to
use the trick of having this first
thing in the same spot here on threat to the fifth string slide over just a little bit, two fingers. E minor. So now from E
minor we need to go to see, keep the second thing, ugly face when it comes down there. Second, sorry, 50 going out on the fifth string API if
five strings to see. And then we're gonna go D chord, which is the triangle
shape as we did before. That code there. Spinal cord going back to G, goes around and around. So you might need to
practice. I've changed a few times to make
them really smooth. So here we are applying
one of those strumming patterns we looked at earlier
as well to the whole song, which is this down,
down, down, down. Strumming pattern all the
way through the song. So we're going to
obviously use that throughout each of the
chords of the song. But for some of these chords, the patent is played
twice as its 2 bar of a g and 2 bar of
mine at the start, there's also a double
bar j at the end. When you're looping this
song around and around, There's a lot of g. So let's
have a rough run through the strumming patterns
with the chord changes. So we had GI and we're going to go to
C and D, Same stuff. Started going on j. So
make sure we have two g's at the start and do GZ
at the end when it's living. So when instrumenting the
courts have Stand By Me, Be aware that we shouldn't
really be hitting the top E string except for one month playing the G
and the E minor chord. With that D chord, we want to try and avoid
hitting this top E string. Sound like that. Basis this same
with the C chord, which is five strings. This is hitting the six,
which can be a bit mushy. Really try and work
on avoiding that. Top the string for the same
day codes as we're strumming. In this lesson, we've
learned the difference between major and minor chords. How to play the E minor chord, the C major chord. And we've learned the song,
Stand By Me, by Benny King. In the next lesson,
we can learn how to change between DC and G major cause and how to develop faster changes
between these chords. At the same time,
we're going to learn the song werewolves of
London by Warren xenon.
7. DCG Chords Werewolves of London: In this lesson here
we're going to practice a combination of DCG chords. It's play the song werewolves
of London by Warren's even. The song here is D, C, and G. Three chords go around and
around for the entire song. So there's a few
tricks here to help make these chord changes
nice and smooth. One of the big things is
changing from D to C. So one of the tricks to change, well from the D chord to a C chord is to ensure that
when we make the change, all three fingers are
jumping together as a group and landing as a
group as you can see here. So trying to avoid thing
that's been left behind, what a lot of people
do as a beginner. They tend to put the
first finger down here. And then these other two
guys that have come in a bit later with d, c. So these guys are a
bit late to the party. So we want to try and
practice change by leading with third finger because your third
finger up here first, you'll find that the other thing is often come along
for the ride anyway, that's sort of just hanging
there naturally anyway. Practice. So I think yeah, and then the other two guys will all there anyway joining. So the unit with this
DC change like that and then see that g is also another challenging
challenge because everyone has to jump again here. So in this case we
have the C chord. And then we're going
to jump everyone to G. To make that work again, as I might have mentioned previously, we want to try and form
this G chord shape in space and landed as a group. This is sort of
having one finger go, that one, that one, and that one button that will
take a bit of work. It's going backwards
and forwards. And if also going to practice
going from G back to C, which will happen
in other songs. We also want to enforce this idea with the third
finger leading the way, or the other two
guys dropped down, get back to C. So again, they're not being bombed. The first fingering
bank, the other team, so we want to make
sure that the group. So there's my little tips on practicing sports in particular. So one way you can
help practice, let's say your D to
C change is to use a drum machine or a metronome
to give you a steady beat. And your challenge here is to be able to change
smoothly from D to C on the beat without
leaving anything is behind. So starting off, you
might go D to hide, it might go 34. And then probably go
backwards and forwards. And once you feel you can get to see smoothies can go faster too. So don't bother trying to speed up until you can
do it at a slower pace. This song is a great time
to practice those changes because DCG chords
are often together in lots of songs from Bob
Dylan and other people. So we're going to now in
practice, the streaming here, which is down on Monday, lab on C and then G, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up. So it mixing up
the rhythms here. Of course, we haven't
done previously, so we've got 1245. But don't worry if you
can't do the count. It's more about
just getting those down, down, down, down. In this lesson,
we've learned how to change between DC and G major chords and how to practice foster code changes
while learning the song, way wolves have London. In the next lesson,
we're going to learn the a minor chord and
we're going to use that. And a new song, Knocking on
Heaven's Door by Bob Dylan.
8. A Minor Knocking on Heavens Door: In this lesson,
we're going to add a new color to the mix, which is a minor. A minor chord here is
basically the E major shape. Hayley, your own for wild thing, we've done one stream. So the first thing is now on fret one of the second string, second finger and
third finger in the middle on the D
and the G strings. Give you a minor version
of the song here that we'll use this a minor chord is knocking on Heaven's
Door by Bob Dylan. So the core seconds from
Knocking on Heaven's Door is G major, D major. Going to now the a minor chord. And then we go back
to the G major, D major, the C chord. Now you can see that
these codes are beginning to mix and overlap. So once you've learned
a handful of chords, you can play thousands
of different songs. Knocking on Heaven
stories or slower song, which uses a 16th note
strumming pattern, which sounds like this. Down, down, down, down, rest, rest, rest, rest. There was a double
strumming pattern for the a minor in the C
major chord in the song. And the count for the
strumming pattern is one, which is perfectly fine. But all you really
need to know as a guitar player at
this stage is that it is down, down, down. Then just to be
aware of the big gap between the first
two downstrokes. In this lesson, you've
learned the eye Monaco it, and how to play the song knocking on his
door by Bob Dylan. In the next lesson, we're
going to learn how to play the E7 cord or the E dominant seven chord,
and we're going to use that. And another new song, Hey job by Jimi Hendrix.
9. E7 Chord & Hey Joe: The next time is Hey Joe, famously played by Jimi Hendrix. And here it will introduced
the seven core to you. So it's basically from the E major shape with a finger taken out of the
middle of the patent. The E major shaped like so. Take a middle finger
out of the pattern, which is our third
finger in this case, does that make sense? So we now have a hole between
these two fingers here, giving us an open.
These streams. That guy, we have this fall, the bluesy sound going on which fits that
Jimi Hendrix sort of vibe that he has going on
through all of his music. The courts for Hey Joe, C, G, D with aids now will
get back to a major. We haven't done that for awhile. That little trick for data. Imagine again that first
finger just saying they're E7, we can slide over like we did for normal eating wild things. Second finger coming up there. Yeah, E7, strumming of the song. I'm also going to use the same strumming pattern from knocking on Heaven's Door, which was that down, down, down, up patent. But as we get the E7, cool, what I'm going to vary it to
make it more interesting. Say I B7 out. What about two-fold bars here? So we have a long time. I'll repeat that one. So he is the E. Well, the counter that last bar, E7, there were changes a bit
is technically three, which is the daps, and that's how you count these 16th note
these double lines that, but all you really
need to worry about here is the idea of down, up, down, up, down,
up, down, up. Building tension and
excitement as it will go back to the C7 chord for the
next round of the song. In this lesson, you've
learned how to play the E seven chord and
how to play the song, Hey job, by Jimi Hendrix. In the next lesson,
we're going to learn two more dominant seven chord, A7, D7, and how to play them in a 12-bar
blues in the key of a.
10. A7 D7 Chords & Blues in A: In this lesson, we're
going to learn how to play a 12-bar blues in the key of a. There were a lot of old-school
rock and roll songs from people such as Chuck
Berry and Elvis, based around the 12-bar blues. And of course, blues
players such as BB King and Steve Ray Vaughan played a lot of 12-bar blues songs as well. And this format is also used in jazz and in some
salt music to it. So it's very handy
pattern to note. Here we are dipping
our toes into the basic structure
of the 12 bar blues. In this example,
we're going to use seventh chords are
dominant seven chords to give you that bluesy sound. And the first chord is
the a, it's seven chord. A7. It's basically
a major shape. First finger off and we have a little hole in
the middle of it. On the fret, on the D string, which is the fourth
string from the floor. And my other third thing
goes now down here on the second fret of
the second screen. So we have five frames. A second chord is D7. So the three quality, but all dominant seven or seven chords as they're
called this D7. This is like a backwards D, So the triangle, but
we're doing it backwards. From the regular DCFS is fret
one on the B string here, second string, second on top, third underneath making
this triangle shape, but the reverse, an irregular D. The third chord we
just talked about in, hey Joe previously, first
can get second thing. He is image again with a finger missing out of
the middle of the shape. Ie, seven quarters
to two-finger. Call it fairly easy code shapes. The basic strumming
throughout the sequence is down, down, down, down. Keeping it very
simple. Take it out wide through the sequence
without getting lost. Another thing you can
hear in this tune is the idea of the swing beat, or the swung eighth notes, where the first pair of the fence is slightly
longer than the second. Hit this out of the screen, we shuffle beat versus
the straight. I have my machine now playing. This one feels amazing
for the blues. And so the field is
suddenly A7 chord would be coming down in Springfield. If you compare that,
he's got his district roughly a lot more
straight ahead. He's the difference
between field, between those two types and
styles that this ring beat is used in lots of other styles beyond this blues
and jazz songs. You'll hear it in songs such as crazy little thing
called loved by Queen, money by Pink Floyd, and high ground by Stevie Wonder and many other songs. Of course. Here's the basic structure
of the 12-bar blues, starting with 4 bar if A7, 34, and thinking about Second by seven by seven. And there are little variations
within the structure, but this is the basic structure
for the 12-bar blues. In this lesson, you've
learned the A7 and D7 chord, and when combined
with an A7 chord, how to apply them
in a 12-bar blues in the key of the next lesson, we're going to learn the D minor chord and
we're going to learn a very commonly used down, down, up, up, down,
up strumming pattern. And then we're going
to learn how to play the song Black Magic Woman, most famously played
by Carlos Santana.
11. D Minor Black Magic Woman: In this lesson, we're
going to learn how to play the song Black Magic Woman, written by Peter Green
from Fleetwood Mac, but made more famous
probably by Carlos antenna. This time we'll also introduce the new code of D minor chord. So now we have a sad version
of the play that we have. First finger here on Fred, one on the first string, second finger on threat
to the G string, and third finger on the B
string and the filtering it. And this is four or five
again, just like D major, but it's out here
as we go along. In this song, I've also included a commonly used
drumming pattern, which I used a bit off in werewolves of London previously. And destroying patent is
used and take it easy by the Eagles Brown Girl
by Van Morrison. And I call this
strumming pattern. That down, down, up, up, down, up strumming pattern. So starting off with the first-quarter of Black
Magic Woman being a minor, the strumming is down,
down, down, down. And 3.3. So we're going to double
up in the middle. And I'm skipping beat
three of the bar. So I'm not strongly
on beat three. That's the up. So
basically you're having a fake missing down from, I suppose so you can
think of is down. Then I'm going to go back down. That's trimming down, face it or having an instrument
if that helps you in-between the patent system. But it does have
really nice group to which fits lots of styles. Some sort of contrary to the
Latin feel at this on head. Here's the code structure
of Black Magic Woman in the key of a minor, down, down, down up to E7,
which is the first thing. The second thing that here up on the fifth string, 2 bar again. Never going to go back to
a minor again. D minor. Now first thing comes
down, second finger, that third finger
sticking out on a fret on the B string, 2 bar. Again, I am on a fishing gear up to
the middle graph. Second finger up again. Back to where we started. In this lesson,
we've learned how to play the D minor chord. If let that super handy, down, down, up, up, down, up strumming pattern, and how to play the song Black Magic Woman. In the next lesson, we're
going to learn how to play the F chord and use
it in the song, Let It Be by the Beatles.
12. F Chord & Let It Be: In this lesson, we're going
to learn how to play, let it be by The Beatles, the song, but also introduced
to you the F major chord. There's a few different
ways of playing F major. And the first version
I'm going to show you is the F major seven chord, which is the easiest
way to play F. So we have first finger here on
Fred, one on the B-tree. Second thing on fret,
on the G string. Third finger on fret
on the D string. So for strings we've got
an open E on the bottom, hiding under their little
bit jazzy sounding. So you can use this particular
F major seven chord. In this song, the F major
seven chord can sound okay, but in other songs that can sound a bit too light and airy. So I'm also going to show you a more proper way
to play F-major, which involves a double squash. First finger on the two
bottom streams here is where the challenge
comes in with double squashing
two strings here, my first finger down
the bottom and that stays white glue here, double one on the
bottom two string, second finger again,
it's the same spot. Fresh at 200 fears during their finger on fret three
on the fourth string, and then we have four strings. This sound. So the challenge here is we have this little tunnel
under these two fingers incorporating the pressure here without leaning or muting
or anything like that. So f a fun as I
tell my students, trying to get this guy to work. So that's that version of it. Another way I'm
playing if is to have two fingers further up,
you get five strings. Or the final one
is for f backward. To worry about light of time. This one I'm having
enough just doing this version of F and this
is what I use in the demo. Let it play the other chords in this song as C
major, done before. G, F cos, we just
talked about that guy. Back to C, a, G, F. And to say, strumming for this song is
the same pattern I used for Knocking
on Heaven's Door. And hey Joe, which is down, down, down, up, change g. And then if the course
is the same chords, but they're in a
different order. I minus sign strumming down and see me again. In this lesson, we've
learned how to play the F code and use
it in the song, Let It Be by The Beatles. In the next lesson,
we're going to learn how the courts have C, G, a minor, and F form the basis of what is known as
the four chord song, which is the basis of
hundreds of songs. And we're going to learn
how to use it to change keys and use these four
chords to play other songs.
13. Capo & The 4 Chord Song: So in the previous lesson, we learned how to play,
let it be by The Beatles, which used the
chords C, G minor, and F. These four cores also formed the basis of what is known as the
four chord song, which basically means
there are a ton of songs using these
same four chords, including obviously
letter B by The Beatles, No Woman, No Cry by
Bob Marley with, without you, by U2. I'm your host, Jason
morays, safe tonight, eagle-eyed Cherry
under the bridge by the red chili peppers and land
out under, by men at work. And there's lots and
lots of other songs torn by Natalie and brilliant I
could go on and on this, which probably hundreds of songs using these
same four chords. But one of the
tricks is that often these same four chords
that sit in the same key, which means that won't
be based around say, C chord or the key of C
might be based around say, in the case of under the bridge by the radar chili peppers, in the key of E, based
around the E chord. And so if we're going to plug those same
four chords shifted around to match this E chord as the foundation of that key. This bunch of codes, we'd
end up with an E chord, a B chord, which is a
backward C sharp minor. There's also another blackboard, and then you go back to a. So now you can send similar
but a little bit different. But the challenge
here is that now we have to learn how to play
these backwards shapes, which can be a bit
hard as a beginner. To get around that, you can use basically a KPI, which will solve that issue. So this magic device here, which we will clamp on in this
case behind for it for on this petal here will now allow me to play the same
basic shapes I use, but let it be to change the key. So basically now I'm
using the C chord shape, E major sounding chord. And then we have
the G chord shape. Play a B major sounding chord. We have the a minor shape, C-sharp minor sounding chord. And then we have the F here to now playing a
major sounding chord. So we're sort of
cheated a bit by basically using the same
basic shapes we've learned. And now we've shifted key. So on piano, we'd
have to worry about what black and white
notes will change too. But you can work a k by one and use the
same basic shapes. Change the pitch of
these particular codes, making your life much easier. So you don't have move
that all the way up to E, which is the key that
the railroad chili peppers do under the bridging. So another example is land
on under by men at work. And so here I'm going to
place the keto at fret too, because the song now
is in the key of D. So we have the
same chord shapes. We just use the letter B
and for under the bridge. But now we're basing our Keiko here at threat
to this chord here, using the C-shape is a D chord. Then we're going to
jump to the G shape, which is now an acorn, what we're hearing in
pitch, a monocyte here, typically now a B minor chord, and then the F is a G. So we end up with come
from the land down under etc, all around that case. So the magic is again, I've just used the same basic
chord shapes. And in this case I've
eliminated the need to play B minor sounding
chord as a barcode. So it does make life
a little bit easier. When you are looking up
songs online checkout, what KPI position might be required to play those
songs in the correct key. In this lesson, we've
learned how to use the Keiko that
easily change key. In the next lesson, we're
going to learn how to play power chords using rock, hard rock, metal and punk music. And we're going to
learn the songs while theme, but play it differently. And real wild child by epoch.
14. Power Chords & Palm Muting: In this lesson, we're going
to learn how to place them that power chord shapes
are the five quarters it's known because it uses
the fifth interval from the root to the
next note in the chord. So these are just
to note chords. But this is the sound of punk, hard rock and metal
guitar playing, but you can also
obviously play this on the acoustic guitar as well. One of the advantages
of playing the chord shapes is that it's
very easy to shift from one color to the other because it's
all the same shape. I started off here, we're
going to revisit wild thing. So instead of displaying
the whole a, D, E code, whenever I'm just going to
play these little to no power chord shapes here at Fred five, I got my first finger at Fred seven on the adjacent
string below, on the string, and string five. I had my third thing,
Get out of here. There's plucking
these two strings. So then we have this
simple to note. Powerful fiscal derivative
of the quotient. Sorry, I'm directs and simple. Really good for punk rock, Green Day to Nevada and
all that sort of stuff. And it works well for
unit for heavy rock, Guns and Roses and
Metallica and bands like that use it
literally sounds good. That sounds great with
distorted electric guitar. As I said, you can also play this on the acoustic
guitar as well. So now in this position here, this is a because
this note here, my first thing was playing day. If we want to play the D, we just simply drop
it down a string. And that becomes a
day they're on Fred 5.7 now to get to the
e which is going to shift the same shape
to for it to cross the knee on frame 7.9 on
these two strings here. Again, I'm just plucking. Things are touching. And so with this in mind, one of the challenges
is the Newton factor. And if we start hitting
straight streets, sounds good with even
might sound funny. One frayed out. What we
want to do is try and either not pick any other strings and saved
the tube you want. You can also help by
muting the string below. Or if you can squish
this finger here, squished down to strings,
you get an extra note. Well, which is perfectly fine. By a little advanced
tip is I will mute the top of this
six right here on this particular shape
with the tip of this finger touching the string that you might be able
to just see that. So then if I do hit it by accident and wide renown
and getting messy, especially if I'm back here. Bringing out muted there
to make it a bit cleaner. Another tip to get
a good sound out of your basic power chord
shape is to keep the sun behind the Nikki can
see mine is hiding here. It's roughly behind
the first thing that giving pressure
first finger. So it's for me, it's
like the first ring or the thumb touching each other. But now foot obviously
the stream and the ketonic in-between and to help the pressure on
this first finger. And then that will also
allow my hands and naturally stretched my first finger and my third finger,
two frets apart. My thumb comes up. It's very hard,
as you can see to try and get my third
finger across. So to make that third finger
stretch two frets away. Dropping the thumb will
help stretch that hand. If you're more comfortable, shape hold for your
power chord shape. Then the simplicity
of that is of course it resound
very punk rock. This moving this shape
around up and down. So once you get that shape,
if you think that you can do lots of Nevada songs, Green Day songs, Sex Pistols, any sort of punk rock
sounding sort of band. One of the other cool
things about this shape, if we're shifting
between G and a and the original
version of Wilding ahead at the start
of my lessons here. This guy, I've been DD, be strings, nothing down with normal ACO
check which is okay. But it can be a little bit
fiddly because you're trying to get precisely three strings. And the whole thing is
a coming on and off, which can be a bit funny, trying to read land that a cord. So what you can do
instead is do the g at Fred three IFM is
going up and down. My other example here using the power chord shape
is the song real wild that child as recorded
by he popped back in the 80s, again, very sort of punk
rock sounding thing. And so now here
we're going to add in some open string power cords where we're going to play E. But now I'm just going to
be the top beatString. And my first finger
here on fret, on the a string, I'm just
picking those two base stream. An open E power board visit
at high while we had wildly before two versions of E. So
now we're gonna go for a, but now we're going to use an open string version of that. I've been a first finger
here, I'm for it too. Of the D string or the fourth
string from the floor. So those two extremes. So I've got an e and an a in this tree called rock song is
the first finger here. On for it to third finger here. It's the same shape we
had for wild thing, but now shifted over here. That's a mean. We had. This song is eighth notes
down strumming again, very punk rock is doing that. One of the little tip
I can give you to make this sound
more authentic and more tightly controlled
is a technique called Palm using which you can
use it in lots of contexts. But it works really well with
these power chord shapes, especially it's
sort of hard rock, punk rock or the sound. So what's happening
here is I'm actually muting the base end of the string with my palm
here back near the bridge. So I went on down. I'm using the strings
just very slowly. Having my hands free floating on a Monday
when I'm playing, I don't want GCC calling
this meeting just slightly, so I'm just touching the very back into the
strings down here. Just a little bit with my
hand to give you that sound. Tend to be more
under control, etc. Again, old damping on the way, the microcosm of thing. But that time anything
is a great trick. You can use it for whole E
codes and other codes as well. If you're doing that sort
of vertical chugging down strong picking thing. And a lot of hard rock, punk and metal songs uses pion meeting technique,
face Taco Shack. Your officer. Really good to help train
your fingers to learn how to play the full
block would later on. Because they're very
much a similar shape. In this lesson, you've learned
how to play power chords, to play the songs, while
thing and real-world child. And also how to use POD
meeting with power chords. In the next lesson, you
can learn how to play out PGA is while developing a
good picking technique. We're going to learn about
the sixth time signature. And we're going to learn two
songs everybody hears by REM and nothing else
matters by Metallica.
15. Arpeggios & Guitar Tab: Another way to play chords
on the guitar versus just strumming them is to pick
each note individually. And this is called an arpeggio. So now that we're looking at individual strings and nodes, it's good to look at
how guitar tab works. Guitar type is a system of six lines showing you the
six strings of the guitar, but it is upside down. So when you're looking at
the top of the page here, That's the first string, second string, stream, 4th, 5th, and 6th going down. So 1123456, that's
backwards in a sense. So you're looking at it
upside down like that. So then e.g. here on
this little demo, we have an example here of
zero on the second line, which means, okay,
I'm going to pluck the open second stream. The next note there
in the combination of numbers here is number one, which is behind fret one, the third string here, and then apply that string in particular. And then the other one is Fred 30123 on the sixth string here, which is the one named my head. Obviously, the top bits on
the bottom of the shape. Is that not there? Sorry
if that makes sense. So then when we look
at the songs here, we're going to follow which
string we're going to pick. And that will also show you what chord shape I'm using to play these particular codes. So the first one here is
everybody hits by REM. So first off here
with this song, we have the D chord in the base. I'm going to go down on the day, shrinking down the G string, down on the B string, up on the E string, up on the beach, drink on the G string, or 4 s up on the first, second and third Street,
round and round. While this whole shape. When we go to the G chord shape, or when to use one
finger on the bottom. So I can use the top
two strings at all. So we leave that third finger down it and
we're going to pick the same strings
round and round. In the timing used here
is a timeline called 68. We have six eighth notes in
the bass, so we have 12. 345-612-3456 does a great salary for a lot of ballads
like this song. Then the big exercise challenge here is to be able
to go smoothly from the D chord shape to the
G-code shape and back without stopping picking the correct strings
and not getting stuck. So to practice changing between each chord shape
without getting stuck, I like to use a metronome here. So the click in the
background here is the speed of every
node I'm going to be picking as an exercise to try and connect these
two chords together. We should be able to do this
with a bit of practice. Check back. You should be able to do
that without getting stuck. And it can be a challenge as a beginning to make
that very smooth. One of the recommendations
I have for you here is to really get this
chord change for the d, one finger G automatically. You don't need to look at this handle and you can just watch the picking hand
as the beginning. Ultimately, you will get
to a level where you went look at either hand
hopefully down the road. It's an exercise I recommend
to make this code change or nomadic is to practice
to strumming them. But watch what's
happening over here, really close to what you
feel that is reliable. See if you can look away and see if that doesn't
get to arrive. Funny, they not stuffing it up. And then once that works,
then you can stop. Now I'm going to stop
watching the picking hand. And then making sure on street. Once you do that, you
can look at the crowd, the words out in the
song, anything else? But have an isolated system, action guy and
sleep for changes. In the course, we have
the E minor chord. We're going to pick
on the top E Street, skip them the G string
to down the bottom. We're going to jump
to the, I call it my first finger and
the middle at least you think that's surrounding
Daphne ice cream, three down, tree out
from the ice streams, two neighbors, the bottom. And then we're going to go backwards or forwards
to treat E minor. And this one has been
more challenging here versus the D and
the one finger G, because we are changing strings. With big topic, It isn't
the same picking pattern. So we're going to watch
when we change the monitor, I measure that we pick
the correct streets. Also changing when we get back. You might have noticed here with the a minor, I'm actually Illustrates where
the fingers are. So you could also get
me mine hands-free. Like so. But I do find it,
It's a good exercise. Also practice changing
E minor to a major. Having these
thinkers here anyway in deed and you
can't necessarily picking those strings in. Nothing else matters.
By Metallica, we're playing our way through an E minor
chord here again, in the demo, you can play without any fingers,
which is fine. It's actually the same pattern
I used for the REM course. The top eastereggs skipping down the GI tract from
the bottom again, saying 6869 patents, as in the area and
everybody has song, but obviously the minor fingers there or not
doesn't really matter. In this case, next chord, when we get into the burst is D, The cutting down
on the D string. On the bottom string there, backup on the second string. And then we get to
C code down on it, the scene that they end up
in the bottom two again. So we have this little
three chord sequence in the base of e minor. Hands-free. Feel like d. Two up. See this guy on stream
512 or three times. You can see this in the tech
how this works as well. Following the lines, zeros, my fingers in the numbers. Please cortex. The end of the secrets is
the G chord, the bass note. Skip down, shake
up on the bottom. Three genome, which is this guy, B7, another new code, which is first finger here, second on top, third
finger creeping in here, making a little backward
triangle like a D7. But now in this spot is
the B7 on the strings. Little finger is now touching
down the bottom there too. Picky here is down
on the iostream, down the G string, up
on the bottom training. So that little
thing from G to B7. B7, different chord,
different strain, same strings on the Internet
that one more time. Going back to the
3D model as well. In this lesson,
we've learned how to play out pgs about reading guitar tab 68 times in nature, how to play a B7 chord. And two songs using
these elements, which are everybody hits by REM and nothing else
matters by Metallica. In the next lesson, we're
going to look at some more on pages to link to other songs, which include an easy
version is Sweet Home, Alabama by lunate scan it, and House of the Rising
Sun by the animals.
16. More Arpeggios: So here's a couple more I PTA songs you can learn as well. There we have my basic version
of Sweet Home Alabama, which is actually
the same chord is werewolves of London that
we looked at earlier. Another DCG song. So D chord down, down the middle to
the bottom one, up on the G string, C code. Now on the history,
family, history, them to G chord, down, down, up. So fairly simple, but again, just trying to
coordinate your fingers together to play that in
time is a good exercise. So one more time, down, down, down, down on the fishery, up along to G2 basement, the two top things in your head, down six up here. This is also going to
reinforce the idea of D, and that C was the third
finger leading the way. This thing is like you can
have a missing or muted notes. So if I do it deliberately, wrongly, because the bad change, it's
going to sound like this. Let's take this
finger wasn't leading the way I went fishing
at first sight, it's very important to
make sure that this guy is leading the charge
from the dean. So the sacral chain,
especially when my biceps, which is what
happens quite a lot. They sort of picking patents. Final picking song here is the classic House
of the Rising Sun, most famously recorded by
the animals in the 60s. So this version, again
is slightly simplified, but it's the same basic
core shapes that they use. So starting off here, we're back to that 68 feel
again six eighth notes in the bar, six chord, essentially. So we've got a minor down, skipping down to the G string, down again, free up
from the bottom. So that's the aim on a patent. That as one of them. Then we change to see columns sticking the third
finger out here, doing the same strings, strings get to the G D chord. Now we're gonna go from the bottom D, This
is the same pattern, the head and the REM
song, down, down, down. Now the challenge here are the fun part of this is
going to F third finger. It can't be like leading the way to spit back
the C chord change. So now having f with
a double squished. So this is a good
test to have good, You're really is,
hello teachers. Actually sing the
song, so sorry, it's down, down, down, up. That's looking for that one, same as the D chord. Then we get back to a again, Down, skip them down. See you again down with history. Down. Now, skip free
app again. E major. Here I'm gonna go straight to the G string and said My number one finger there is two, the number one factor, that 2 bar of that. I am on it again, same sequence. C, one finger, that's the
same as picking string D, D, string three down,
three up again. We can get that F goes
down, down, down, up. The final part is a minor. Again, stop the seeds
on the a string. And then E major again. This basically check the
whole shape up one string, E string, skip
down the G string. And then I might
on the n times t. We stopped single strings
from the high street. So hopefully all these
songs and listen, strumming and picking
is giving you a good start on getting those codes on your
fingers on the guitar. In this lesson, you've learned how to play an easy version of this guitar lesson. You've learned how to
play an easy version of this guitar lesson. You've learned how to play an
easy vision and Sweet Home, Alabama by Lynn and skin and how surviving
son by the animals. Next up we're going to look
at all the cool to Flint, summarize some of our
strumming patterns and that picking and
bring it all together.
17. Conclusion: Congratulations,
you've now made it to the end of the beginning
of co-taught class. You've now let the
central cause to play thousands of popular
songs in various styles. You've left the parts
of the guitar with essential accessories
and practice tools for notes and music. How to tune your guitar, how to hold your
guitar and Nika topic, how to play 14 major, minor and dominant
seventh chords. Which fingers to
use the cortex and how to effectively
change between them. You've also learned how
strong these chords with strumming patterns
and returns to make songs come together. Also, you've learned how to
use a calculator to easily change keys using
these chord shapes. Plus you've been introduced
to power chord shapes, but Punk Rock in
heavy metal music. Finally, you've
learned how to read guitar tab and pick the
individual strings and corn supply arpeggios in
songs such as nothing else matters by Metallica and
house the rising sun. With all this knowledge,
you can now search online for chords and guitar
tab for thousands of your favorite songs and
have fun learning how to play them by yourself
for your class project, It's now time to record
audio or video of yourself strumming and picking along to your favorite songs with
provided that contracts, simply use the voice recorder or camera on your smartphone. Then upload the
audio to SoundCloud, live video to YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, or
Instagram, and share the links with me via email
or you can upload them. Here isn't a class project
section on Skillshare. Thanks for spending time with, with learning to play
an instrument and pick the central
chords on the guitar. If you've enjoyed this class, please leave a review. Let me know what your
favorite parts of the class and what to
help you the most. And learning to strum and
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I'll see you next time.
Anthony Pell, Guitarist, Bassist, Teacher
