Guitar Chords and Strumming for Beginners

1. Guitar Chords and Strumming For Beginners: Hi, I'm John Chamley and I'm going to show you how to play all of the basic guitar chords. Now there's one thing that you have to recognize is that you're not playing these in isolation. Playing chords is a dynamic thing. So the most important thing is that you can not only play the chords, but that you can be able to change chords nice and smoothly. My approach to teaching chords is first of all, teach you the easy chords that only require one finger. That way we can get used to being able to change chords and Strum at the same time. And then we build on that and start introducing two fingers and then three fingers. And finally, we'll use four fingers. Then the other thing we'll be going over is strumming patterns and being able to recognize what other people are playing. And then we'll be looking at the different chord types. And there are five major chords we'll look at. And then we're going to build on those by changing one or two notes. We can have minor chords, seventh chords, major seventh chords, and then also suspended chords. So if you're a beginner at guitar and want to learn the important chords used by most popular songs, let me show you step-by-step how to do it. Come on in, let's get started. 2. Simple Chords Exercise 1 - Lesson: Now the first thing we're going to be doing is taking a look at what I call simple four string chord exercises. Now if you print out the packet that comes with the course it starts with chords that only use one finger on the fretting hand. And then it, then it has some two-finger chords. And then at the end it's got some chords where you need three fingers. On the next sheet, there are some exercises. The first exercise we're gonna be doing is changing between chords that are called G, G7, and E minor. This might look simple, and if you've already played some chords already, you might think this is a waste of time. It may not be. The principle here is something that you really want to try to use for all of your chord playing. And that is to be able to be as efficient as possible with your finger movements. So before we get into that, let me just explain that, when you press your fingers down on the frets, what you're doing is you're stopping the string at the fret. So you want to be as close as possible to that fret so that you need the least amount of pressure. And it's more likely that you're gonna get a nice sound from the guitar. So if you, you, probably, if you tried this already, you might find that if you move your finger away, you get this kind of sound because you're not quite, not quite holding the finger, the string down against the fret. So a good habit to get into is always have your fingers close to the frets. So the other thing is, which fingers do you use? Well, we've got four fingers that we want to train to be able to use the frets. And with these cords, generally, what you want to do is use what we call the first finger. These are number 1234. Use the first finger on the first fret, second finger on the second fret, and the third finger on the third fret. And the exceptions to those explain to you because there are some times when you changing chords, it makes more sense to use a different finger. Now we're not going to be going for these, for this course. We're not going to be going past the third threat in terms of which frets you're pressing down. We are going to use four fingers though. But for this first exercise, what we want to be able to do is to change cause between these three chords. And you're going to need the third finger and the first finger, and the second finger. They're all pressing down on different frets. Alright, so the first chord is like this. I just strong through it. It's like that. And then the second chord, we want it to be as efficient as possible. We want to have this first finger ready so that when you play, this thing is ready over here to press down. Alright. Now, one beginner mistake that I've seen over and over again is that caught me just lift a finger off and go like that. Well, you notice that actually the note change, right? Because I'm kinda pulling away from that string. When he blamed the chord. You want it to keep, you want the court to keep ringing, can tell you ready for the next chord. Right? So so keep that third finger on there and then get this first finger ready. You can even have them both press down at the same time so that when you when you switch over and just lift up this one, then you ready for that next chord? Alright, So that's going from the G chord to the G7 chord. And then the next chord is an E minor. So you need to reach over with that second finger, while that first finger is still holding that, that first string down. And we're going to reach over to the fourth string. I'm not sure I mentioned this, but this is string 1234. So reaching over to string for threat to which you will see these are codes that are on the sheet. We've got the G, the G7, and the E minor. So let's just try it right now to play these chords and to make the changes. Alright, so what I'd like you to do with the right-hand is just strum from the fourth string, right? Counting 1234. And all I'm expecting you to do is to Strom these chords. You can strum once or twice for each, each one of the course. It's fine. So what you wanna do is just draw everything ring and just trim nice and nice and clear like that. And then make the change. Then when you get to this E minor chord, the idea here is that that second finger is hovering over that string. I need just do that. And then it goes back to the G7 chord. So you go from this one. So you want to hold down this, this finger here. Why do you put this other finger down ready? So you kinda have to, because this is a change of chord where you, where you need to let that string ring. And you also, you also letting that first string ring. You don't want to put your finger down too soon so that you change the note until you're ready to play it. So it's kind of, you're kind of doing this kind of seesaw type thing. So you're going from that one to this one. I missed the fourth string there. Right? So in the next video, we're gonna go through the exercise of playing through these chords. And then let's try going through this in the next video. 3. How To Strum the Chord Exercises: I just want to mention about strumming the cords because there are a lot of exercises that follow before we start looking at the actual strumming patterns. What I suggest for this first part is to just do a very simple strum. And you can either use a pick or you can use fingers. If you use a pick, what you want to do is place it on the fourth string, and we count the strings from the bottom, 1234. So we place it on the fourth string, allow the pic to go over the strings lightly. You don't want to be holding the pick too rigid. And just so you just want to hold onto the pick enough so that you're not going to drop it. And then the other thing is the angle of the picky. Don't want that picked to be pointing down so that it's, it's all, it's almost impossible for the pictograph through. So you can either have it, have it straight or I tend to, I tend to start with it's straight and allow a little bit of flexibility. As I'm pushing this pick through the, the strings, I allow a little bit of flexibility there. Now there's an alternative way and that's using the fingers like this. And that's probably the most effective if you have a nylon string guitar right now I'm playing a steel string guitar. So what I would suggest if you have steel strings, particularly is use the back of the fingers because you have fingernails which are actually quite an effective pick. You know, you can, you can hold your fingers like as if you're playing with the picker and just let the fingernail slide through the strings. And that way you won't have the problem of getting blisters. So this is the way I often play and I sometimes use different fingers. So I just want to emphasize that the first part of the course is about making effective and most efficient changes. So that's why we don't want to focus too much on the right hand. We can put most of our attention on making really good chord changes. Now the exercise is coming up are at different speeds. Typically the cause might be one for each bar and each measure or bar is typically 44 times. What that means is that you're counting 12341234. And for each group of four notes, there'll be a different chord. Let's say e.g. I. Have this court. And that court goes on for four beats. So it might be 1234 and then change chords like that. So you only really need to do one and then let the court sustained right up until the next one. Now, if you just happen to want to put an extra strong, That's fine. So you can just, wherever you feel inspired or comfortable to do, that's fine. But again, the importance of this first part is really get you playing those quads and being able to make the changes in the first exercises. These are all chords on for strings. So really, you just need to be strumming from, from the fourth string down. And then in the quads that follow, we'll be doing chords that use five strings, six strings. So in those cases then what you want to do is to strum from the fifth string, from the sixth. And that's really all there is to it. So in the next video, we can get started with playing some chords. 6. Simple Chords Exercise 2 - Lesson: Now in exercise two, we have some new chords. Two of these chords were in the previous exercise. And now we have a G major seven and a C chord. Now I'm using the fourth finger for this first chord, you can use a third finger, whichever you feel is most comfortable. So we come in from the G chord. I'm using the fourth finger and then go into the E minor chord, which is the same as we did last time. Now, the next one is a G major seven, where you need to place a finger on the second fret. So if you can see this, the second threat there. So I'm going from that one to this one and I'm using the third finger this time because when, you know, when you're going from one chord to another, the idea is that you want to let the strings ring right up to the time when you change the chord, right? So you go from this one and then switch over to this one. And then the next chord is going to use these two fingers. So from here, it's convenient to put these two fingers down. Now, the idea is that you want to be able to put them down together. But if you think about which, which should know, you're going to need the first from this. Since we're strumming down here, I'm strumming from the fourth string here. So that's string. The note is going to change because we need to put the finger on that threat. So we should be playing that note. So that means that this finger has to go down at least first before that once, rather than trying to put that one down first. And then this one is better if you think about putting the second finger down first. When you putting your fingers down, what you want to do is try to have them stand up fairly vertical from the fretboard. And another thing that I didn't mention is that if you have long fingernails that can really prevent you from, from pressing down the way that you need to do on the frets. My fingernails are pretty short on this hand, so that allows you to be able to stand your fingers up fairly straight. Alright, so from this one to this one, the G major seven, to the sea. And then when you're doing the repeat again, coming from here, I'm going to use the fourth finger again to do the second time through G major seven and then to the c. So that's exercise to perhaps n and neglected to mention this in the last exercise when you see a symbol like this, this, this actually means that you should do a repeat. Now, it doesn't say the number of times you can repeat. Sometimes you see a number that tells you how many times you're going to repeat this. So again, I suggest just try and get comfortable making those changes first and then going to the next video and try and play along with the track. 9. Simple Chords Exercise 3 - Lesson: Now in exercise three, we're gonna do one of the chords with three fingers. The other cause we used in the previous exercises, and those are the G. And we've got the E minor, and we have a C chord. Now, when you go from the E minor, E minor to the c, you should keep that one finger in place. Because all you have to do is put down one finger for the C chord. And the same thing now that we're going from the C chord to the D7, this finger, the first finger, doesn't have to come off. That can stay right where it is when you playing the C chord, you let the strings ring. Then when you're about to make the change, you can lift this finger off and just move it over one string. And at the same time, you want to take this third finger and tuck it under there so that it can go on top of the second fret of the first string. So being able to do this well is all about being able to control those two fingers. And really you can, you can kinda pivot around that first finger. So again, give those a try, make sure that you make sure that you're comfortable. Again, I will go from using the fourth finger on that one, E minor, and then to the C chord. All you need to do is have that finger hovering over their, place it down. And then just pivot on that first finger and put these two fingers down. And of course you want to make sure that every one of those nodes has come out nice and clear. That's the goal. So that's exercise three, try the playthrough and the next video, when you're ready. 12. Simple Chords Exercise 4 - Lesson: In exercise four, we using some new courts. And it goes like this, will be playing an E chord. And then we pick that. And then here's a finishing off within the cell. So it's a little bit of a bluesy kind of thing. So the first chord is an E chord using two fingers. Now we're going to see these chords again when we get to the next section playing 5.6 string chords. But for now we're just using for strings. And this first chord, you play like this. You'll notice that the second core, the A7, we can keep that finger in place, the second finger on the fourth string, and then put down the third finger on the second fret of the second string. Asap. So you're doing is, you're alternating between these two fingers, fingers one and fingers three. So again, this then back to the ear again. Now the B7, you're going to have to do some switching. And what I would do is I would use finger one for that, and I would use fingers 3.4 for this one. Now you could actually use fingers 2.3 would still be okay. So then the last one is you just moving their finger back and it's only one finger that you need to put down. So that's exercise four again. Just go through those, make sure that you're comfortable, practice those and then try try it with the play along in the next video. 15. Basic Chords Exercise 1 - Lesson: In this basic chords exercise, number one, we use in three chords, a, D, back to a, and then to E. Now, as I mentioned before in the introduction to these basic chord shapes, Here's the fingering that I recommend to use for this a chord. You put the second finger on the fourth string, second fret, the first finger on the third string, second fret, and the third finger on the second string. Second fret. Okay, so it's like that. And you playing through from the fifth string is basically a five string chord. Now, when you change into the D chord, you find that you have one finger here which is the same, so you don't want to move that. So one of the advantages of using this fingering is that you can, you can keep that one finger in place. And here's another thing. If you take a look, if we were lithos finger off, you see that there's the third finger is already on the second fret. So all you need to do, instead of taking everything off, just slide that one up, one fret and let it sit on the third fret. And then at the same time, move this second finger over so that you can place it on the first string. So it's like that. Then when you go back to the a chord, it's the reverse. You lift this one up, slide this one down to the second fret, and then move this over the fourth string. So if you can do that, then you can, you can make a really small change between these courts. So it's kinda, kinda little mechanism that you need to get going. So that's the first pair of chords that we're changing from. Now. The other chord in this exercise is going to the E chord. Now, you don't have anything down here that's, that's common between the two cars. But what you do have is this first finger, which if you move that down one fret like that, you can move these two fingers over like that for a very efficient way of switching between these chords. So this, when you have one finger, at least one finger down, that doesn't change, then it makes the change very stable. So what you can do again, going back from the E chord to the a chord, is you can lift these two fingers up. And ideally, you want to keep those two fingers together, slide this up and then, and then place these two down like that. So this, if you notice, it's almost the movement is very small. Right? So that's the ideal. Try to avoid the tendency to just lift everything up and then have to figure out how to, how to put it down again. See if you can get those little mechanism's going. And then in the next video, try the play through. 18. Basic Chords Exercise 2 - Lesson: So now let's take a look at exercise two of the basic chords. Now we're using chords G, C, and D For this exercise. In the moves between these chords is nothing that you can really hold on with any of the fingers. Because in all cases, all of the fingers are moving to a different location. So being able to do this effectively, what you need to have is a flight plan for each one of the fingers. If we take a look at the change between the G chord and the C chord, what you'll find is two of these fingers are going in one direction. These are going over here like that. The third finger, if you use the third finger for this chord, is going to be going in this direction. So let's look at those moves independently. Fingers 1.2 are on strings, 5.6 on threats, 2.3, and they have to go over to string two, string four respectively, right? So we've got those two fingers making this kind of a move. Now this, if you look at my wrist, what you notice is the wrist is turning slightly, right? So when you turn the risk slightly, what you find is that you have a tendency for these two fingers to separate. So that means these two fingers don't have to do too much. But it's the turn of the wrist and you just bring in those fingers over there. Now, at the same time, we wanted to try and always keep your fingers coming straight from the, from the fretboard. Try not to let them go flat because that can, that can cause problems with touching other strings. And then you find that your, your, your damping strings that you don't want it. So let's just practice making that move. They go from this, we lift up very slightly. Now, what I've seen with beginners is that you just take your fingers off like that and then you have to put them all figured out where they're going. So what we wanna do is to do it the more professional way, which is to make the least amount of movement as possible. So you take those two fingers and just pick them up off the strings and try and keep them. If you can keep them a quarter of an inch, a centimeter, or something like that away from the strings. That's ideal. So once you've got that, what we want to do is take a look then at either the third or the fourth finger. Now if you're using the third finger, What's happening there is you're going from the first string on the third fret, and it's got to move over to the fifth string on the third fret. So that finger has to move in that direction, right? So just, just practice that for a little bit. Now this may take a little bit more than this video to become proficient at doing this. But this is the start just, you just want to have this idea in mind that you want to be as efficient as possible with these moves. So when you play this, you want to, you don't want to have a break in the sound. So you have to build to do this comfortably to make it sound the way you want it to sound. Now let's take a look at an alternative fingering for these chords. When you playing the G chord, often I like to use the little finger. And what you can do then is there are several ways. One way is that you can use fingers 2.3 on the fifth and sixth string. And that would, that would make it so that when you change from the G chord, you could just move these two fingers over to the fourth and the fifth string. And then you need to put the first finger down. So that's actually less movement because this little finger you could just leave where it is. You need to do is lifted up and move these two fingers over and put this first finger down. So that's an alternative way if you're comfortable using that fingering. So I'm comfortable using any of these, but use the one that you feel most comfortable with. And then if you feel like it, you can try the other one and another time. Okay, so that's those two cause now let's take a look at the other move, which is from the C chord to the D chord. If we analyze this, these two fingers, fingers, 2.3, they need to move over. They need, they can just stay in the same position and move over to strings 1.2, right? So you're going from string 4.5 string to string 1.2, right? So that's the move that those two fingers are making. Now, in this instance where we're changing these two chords, those two fingers kinda move together. And the first finger is the one that's going to have to move from the second string to the third string. So it's moving from the second string on the, on the first fret to the third string on the second fret, right? So we've got two independent types of moves, right? So you need to do this. So if you practice going from the sea and then go into the D, once you're comfortable doing that, then you should be ready just to try and try and play through these exercises. Just one other thing before you start this, there are different speeds of the play along videos. Now, if you don't want to do the fastest one of any of these, it's okay because the main point of this is just to get used to moving those cords around and getting to know the chord shapes. So if we accomplish that, then that's great. Now, if you can do the fastest speeds, that's also, that's fine. You'll be actually in better shape when we start to do the strumming in the later exercises. So for now, just have a go, make those code changes as efficient as possible. So once you've done that, give the exercise of trying the next video. 22. Basic Chords Exercise 3 - Lesson: In exercise three, we've got these courts. We have a, G, D, a, C. Now let's, let's look at the changes here. What I recommend, actually, with this, with a G chord. So far, you've done this using three fingers. Now, if you feel like you can do it, I want to show you a four-fingered cord where you replace the fourth finger on, on the first string, on the third fret, and the third finger on the third fret of the second string. And then the other two fingers are the same. We've got the first first finger on the second fret of the fifth string, and the third finger. Second finger is on the third fret of the sixth string. So you've got this kind of a chord. Now, this is going to help with this exercise if you can do this. And it's also, the cord is also a little bit brighter. I like this chord. Here's, here's the regular G. Just using the three fingers, which is, which is also fine, but this is just a little bit different sound. Now, the advantage of this one is when you're going from a G to a D chord. You can leave that finger in place and then take these two fingers over here and bring those over to where they need to go on the second fret. So the first finger goes on the third string and the second finger goes on the first string. Like that. So then that's a very smooth change if you can do that. So remember that when you play these chords, important thing is that you get them in place before you start to strum through that particular string. So you've gotten from this one. So you have a little bit of time, you can lift this up. Now, here's a little trick. When you, when you move in this fingers away from here. Rather than, rather than lifting up and getting that kind of sound. If you can, you can lift these two fingers up here so that you actually stop the strings. So you kinda muting the strings with those two fingers here. How I am muted those strings. So that leaves it a little bit cleaner when you're playing this plane. And then you move into the next chord. Don't worry too much about that. Just be aware that these techniques exists. Then you can gradually work those things into your playing. Now when we go from the data that a cord. So then this chord change. We did an exercise one way we can keep, keep the first finger in place. Slide the third thing that down and move this second finger over the top. Now, when we go to the C chord, we do have one finger. So you should always look for one finger that's that you can use to pivot on. So in this case, you have the second finger where you can keep that finger in place. And incidentally, this is, this is how you can play without, how you can play chords without even looking at the fret board because you've got one finger to anchor you in place. But the C chord, we've taken this third finger, which was on the second string, and then moving that over to the fifth string. And then the first finger will go on to the second string, first fret. So again, when you do this, remember that that third finger has to get there first because that's the first one that you're gonna, you're gonna hit with your strumming hand. Next chord change is from the c to the d. So this one, It's a little tricky because there's actually nothing you can hold onto, right? But that doesn't mean that you don't want don't want to go the most direct path to get to the notes that you need to press down. You can just try this. Even without pressing down. Just try and make the movements so that you take these three fingers and that second finger right there. There has to move over to here, right? And then this first finger has to move over there. So we could try that first, just try these two fingers like that, right? So, so you take in these two going down like that. Alright, so take it there and then this third finger is going onto the threat right there. So make it as smooth as possible. So give those changes a try, then, then check out the track that follows and see if you can play along with that. 25. Introduction to 7th Chord Types: Now we're going to take a look at seventh chords. Now there are several kinds of seventh chords. There are major seven or dominant seven and minus seven. So we're going to take a look at in this course. This course is not really for theory, but let me just explain very briefly just so that you understand what the different kinds of sevenths or a chord is made up. If you take a major scale. Now, you take the first, third and the fifth note out of those scale, scales, and that creates what we call a triad, a major triad in this case, because it's a major scale. Now, if you take also the seventh chord, 1234567, that is called a major seventh chord. But we have another kind of seventh called a dominant seventh. And I'm not gonna get into the reasons why it's called a dominant seventh. But a dominant seventh is basically a flattened seventh. So if I got 1234567, you'll notice that, that, that, that note does not sound like it's from your major scale that we've all come to know. So that is what S7, a dominant seventh is now a minus m. You actually need a minor chord. So if I buy a minus K, then you take the first, third, and fifth, and then you add the seventh from the minus scale. So you get that kind of a kind of a cell or either. So that's seventh chord. So you'll notice that these shapes are similar to what we had before. So in the case of the C chord, we add this. Now on the third fret, which is that's the flat seven. And then the case of the a chord like this, we take out that that finger, and that's the seventh note of the flat seven of the a. And then we've got the G. She's like that. And this note, this note here, we replaced this note here. With that. I want to get it G7. And then the code like that, take off this finger. And we get that one, the DSM we've already come across. So instead of that note replaying that one, That's the seventh. And then there's one more that's, that's easy for us to play in the open position, which is the B7. So that's the B7. So let's compare dominant seventh with minor sevenths. If we take a major scale like we have here, which has all of the natural notes. And I take the first, the third note, and the fifth note. And then what I'm gonna do is I'm going to, I'm going to add the flat seventh. The seventh note will be, that will be the B. But that's our dominant seventh. Now if we take this below, we've got a minor scale. The, a minor scale, if I take the first, third, the fifth, and then I take the seventh note of that scale, then that would be a, an, a minor chord. So we have a C seven or C dominant seventh, and then we have an a minus seven. Now just to compare, if I take, if I take this profile here, here that we've got, this is gonna be the result. So here you notice you've got C, D sharp, or E flat, and G. Now this would be a minor triad, and then on top of it you have a seventh. Just to illustrate further, if I, if I put a scale like this, they go like that to their first, third, first, third, and fifth, and then the seventh, that will be called a major seventh. And hopefully not to confuse you even more. One chord that we're not going to do in this course will be a chord like this, where you have the minor third, fifth. And then we would have the major seventh that will be called a minor, major seven chord. And that is a chord that does get used, although it's certainly not such a common chord for popular music. In conclusion, here we have four types of cause based on the root note C. Now if you look at the scale degrees, which are the notes in yellow, you'll notice that the notes that are not changing, or the first and the fifth degree, what is changing is the third degree. Now we either have a minor third or a major third. And we either have a minor seventh or a major seventh interval. So hopefully knowing this will help you when you look at the chord shapes and you see how they change between the major and the minor and the different types of seventh chords. Now take a look at the five chords on the screen. The first chord, the a major chord. You'll notice that the third string is stopped at the second fret. Now when you go to the A7 chord, you notice that that chord has that string open. So that note is actually the flat seven. But now if we move over to the a major seven, you'll notice that there's a, there's a finger on the first fret of that third string, and so that's the major seventh interval. Next, if we take a look at the a minor chord, you'll notice that it's got the same two fingers on the second fret of the third and fourth string. But you have a minor third that's on the second string. Then we move over to the a minus seven. You notice that we still have that minor third. And then the third string is opened with the minus 7th. So hopefully with all that background information, this will make sense now. So now that we've been through an example of all the records, I think there's no need to go through all of the other chords. And you will be able to recognize where is the third and whereas the seventh and each one of the cords and be able to figure out which are the notes that are changing. So now that we've done that, let's just go to the next section and play some chords. 26. 7th Chords Exercise 1 - Lesson: So in this first seventh chord exercise, we've got a slow blues. Now seventh chords are really good for the blues and rock. They just have that. That's what gives gifts actually this blues sound, you just need to Strom this one, but this would be, would be good with that. Actually, you could do some stamps, what equals steps. So you could do that kind of a thing that would work really well with this. I would say for this right now, just concentrate on the chords. So let's take a look at the chord changes that we've got here. We've got the A7. Now I suggest as, as we did before with the a chord, playing with this configuration for the fingers, where you've got fingers 3.2 on the outside of the court and then the first finger would go in-between. So with the seven chord, it's actually easier because you don't have to put the first finger down. Alright, so the first chord is like that. And then we'll move into a D7. So it's actually quite convenient to move those two fingers over one string and then put this first finger down. There's no real anchor finger there. It's quite easy to just move between, just, just moving over one string and then next one is back to an a chord this time. So he playing the a called first, taken out the first finger, and then back to the d, This time the D chord. So this is a same kind of change that we did before. And you've already got that, essentially playing a seventh chord, you've already got their finger taken off. You just need to slide this one up. Move that, move that second finger over to the first string and place this finger down on the third string. Now we're going to, we're going to flip the D chord to the D7. So none of the fingers, they're going to stay put. I guess she could do something like that, but I don't recommend that. I suggest is go into this. This is the shape that I usually always used for D7. So you kinda have to move these fingers. All have to move together like that to make a smooth change. Okay, so that's the D7. Now we're going from the D7 to the a. So it's basically the same shape that you're moving over one string. And then you placing, instead of having that finger on the first fret, you got that first finger on the second fret. And then their feet. Then again. Here we have a going to E7 are ATE seven. You got one finger there that you can move down. That finger can move over there. That's the sixth string cord. Then the A7 that follows it. You can pick up this second finger, put it down on the string next to it, and then put the third finger down for that cord. So once you feel comfortable with making those core changes, try the next track, going through the slow blues. 27. 7th Chords Ex. 1 Playalong 55 bpm: Oh. 29. 7th Chords Exercise 2 - Lesson: Now, in the seventh chords, exercise two, we're looking at something that's more like a country style piece. And this is going between G, the G7, C7, back to the G, D7, j0. So that could be something like that. Now, when we play these changes, you've got something you don't have much to hold onto when you make the changes. Because with the G chord, this one, and then everything has to change. But here's a little trick that you could do with a G chord going from a G to a G7 because she moving like this, right? So you're gonna have to switch two fingers over there, then this one has to go with there. So they all have to travel a certain distance. So I'm using, I'm using the fourth finger over here. Then. What you can do is get this other finger ready and replace that one. So I get this third finger ready on that string and then you can pivot around that one. Put the second finger and the first finger like that. So it's kind of trick that you can just get that one in place quickly. And especially if you don't, if you're not holding onto this that third fret with the third finger. You can have that finger already to put down there. Which is another reason it's good to use the forefinger if we can do that. Alright, so that's the, that's the G to the G7. G7, c is not bad actually, because what you're doing is you're contracting. You keeping the same kind of finger order. But this is moving over one string and that's moving inward one string, right? So they all kinda moving inward to the C chord. And then you keep this fourth finger ready to put down on the third fret of the third string, the C7, and then back to the G chord. If you, if you use that fourth finger, then you can just move these to over like that, and then move that little finger over there to play that G. Now with the D7, moving from the G to the D7, you can actually hold that there. And then get these two fingers, get these three fingers ready over here to play the D7. Then back to the G. So this one, these two fingers over here are going to head over to the sixth and the fifth string. And then you're going to put this one down there like that. So those are the changes for exercise two. So give those codes to try then check out the track that's coming up. 32. 7th Chords Exercise 3 - Lesson: Now, in exercise three of the seventh chords, the one chord that we didn't do so far is the B7, and that's this one. Now this chord, you need to have this kind of a shape which, which you might think of as like the D7 share, but on different strings. So he playing this on strings 54.3. And then you need a little finger to go off on the second fret of the first string. The other changes, I think of these as being not so difficult, right? So we've got the E7. She's a chord like that just with two fingers. And then come in after it is the A7 where you just need to lift up this finger here, put it down on the adjacent string, and then put this other finger on the second string. Then you have this other fingers, this first finger, ready to go back down again for the next E seven chord. Now we're going from the E7 to the B7. You just need to move over this finger, one string, and then bring this third finger around so it can go on the second fret of the fourth string. And then you're going to place that little finger on the first string, second fret. Now when you go from the B-cell to the A7, they've already got two fingers like this. You just need to move those over one string, the A7, then back to the B7. You could put that little pinky down there, bring these back over. Going back to the a again. So again, lots of practice playing between the a and the B7 and then the E7. So see if you can get your fingers around that and then check out the track. In the following video. 34. Minor Chords - Explained: Let's take a look now at minor chords. Now so far we've done the CAG ED chords in the major form. So what we're going to take a look at now is how we convert those to minor. Now, if you know anything about cord theory is very simple, that you take the notes of a scale. Now in the case of a major chord, if I play this, play a C scale, what we're doing is taking the first note, the third note, fifth note. And that will be our Major triad, what we call a major triad. Now in the case of a minor chord, what we're gonna do is take the first, third and the fifth of a minor scale. So a minor scale is going to sound something like this, right? So you notice that that's a little bit darker. And the, what actually happens there is the third note is different. So if I compare them, major triad with a minor triad is actually one note that's different and that's the third note, so 123, and that's a half-step or a halftone difference from from the major. So what, what we would do if you want to play a minor chord to be a C chord. You could play a C minor chord like this. Now that's actually a little bit awkward, and it's actually not so practical for strumming because we're streaming typically your strumming across four or six strings there. The problem here is that the first string will be the third of a C major chord. So when you play these chords, you might think you playing five or six strings, but actually you're duplicating some of these notes. In the case of a C chord, the plane to 2is to ease, right? So that's that third note of the scale. You can make it flat there, but you cannot play. You cannot make that first string flat because you've got nowhere to go. It's tuned to that note with a C chord. The minor chords don't work so well if you're strumming. And also for the G chord, now the G chord might play the G chord like that. So you can take that. You can take the third note of that scale. So it will be like this, which is fine if your finger picking and you want to pick those notes. But if you're strumming, the problem is that the second string, B is the third of the G major chord. So, right, so he can't make that string flat either. Now there is an alternative which she could do, and that will be two. To hold down on this frame, which is a legitimate G minor chord, but it's kind of awkward. And it's not one that you would typically use for strumming. So what we're left with our three chord shapes, we've got the E, the a, and the d. Now those costs we can convert to minor chords by just moving that third note. So in the case of, let's just take a look at the a. So here's the, there's the third note on the second string, second fret. So if you move that down one fret, then, then that would be a minor chord shape. Now with the D chord, same thing, laying like this across four strings. And the scale you can play like this. So you move that note that's on the second fret, which is an F-sharp there, and move that down one fret to an F, and then that will be your D minor chord. With the E chord, you play cross six strings like that. You can play the major scale like this. So that third note, we can just leave that finger off and then play the core like this. So that's our E minor chord. So those are the three main shapes that we used for the minor chords. 35. Minor7thChords Explained: So now that we've got our three minor chord shapes, minor, minor and the D minor. We're going to take a look at how we turn those into seventh chord. So we'll have an E minor seven, a minor seven, and a D minor seven. Now what you find with these chords is that if you know the note that you changed to add the dominant seventh to the major cause that's the same note that we're going to use for the minor chords. It's actually a flattened seventh if you compare it with the major scale, but you don't need to worry about that. All you need to think about is just adding that, that seventh note in the case of an EE core just said they're the major chord. You remember that we just take off this one finger. So we'll leave in that fourth string open. It's the same thing with minor chords. If we play the E minor, just like that, we just take off this fourth string open. And that's an E minor seven chord. Let's take a look at the a chord. A chord is like this. Before we took off and left opened that third string for our A7 chord. So with a minor chord like that. So what we do is take that finger off and leave that third string open. That's an a minor seven chord. With the D chord. What we did was we took the note that we got on the second string, and we played instead the note on the first string. So to get our seventh chord is like that. So that's a D7 chord with the minor. Since you've got this shape. We changed the same fingering of the second string from the third fret to the first fret. So we got, we've got this kind of a shape. Now I'm using a bar across here and I have a separate course on barcodes. But for this course, you don't need to use the bar. You could use three separate fingers. But if you can do this with one finger across two strings, it's actually good practice for later on where you want to develop your bar chords more. But for right now, those are our three chords for the minus seven shapes. The minus seven, minus seven and minus seven. Now that you've got an idea how to play those, let's take a look at the exercises to get used to using some of these chords. 36. Minor Chords Exercise 1 - Lesson: In exercise one of the minor, minor seventh chords, we're gonna be using some familiar chords and then we're going to be adding some minor and minus seventh chords. We know already that the C and the G will then be going to an a minor. So in terms of efficiency and making this as smooth as possible, this is actually similar to going to a C chord. Because when you go like this from a G, you have two fingers like this going moving from there over to the a minor, similar to the C-shape. And then if we think about the third finger, third finger is going from, from here to there, that's a minor. A minor chord is fairly straightforward because all you need to do is lift that one up and take these two fingers and move both of those fingers over. One string, going from E minor to the D minor, what you can do is put that finger down on the first string and then use that to guide the other two fingers, just moving them over from the fifth and the fourth string over to the third and the second string to play the D minor chord like that. And then the following chord is an a minus. But from the D minor, you have two fingers like this, and you just need to move those over one string. They have the a minus seven. So then we're going from the a minus n to the e minus seven, which is fairly easy because all you need to do is take that second finger, move it over one string. And that's the only thing you need to put down for that court. Then we're going back to the a minor, which in this case it's not an a minus seven, so you need three fingers there. So then the last chord is a minor, Going to a G7. And this finger is going to be going over one string. And then these two fingers, they're going to have to switch around to go there. So then we go back. And going from this, of course you've gone from the G7 to the sea again. That's exercise one of the minor and minor seventh chords. So in the next video, you'll be able to give them a try. 40. Minor Chords Exercise 2 - Lesson: Now in exercise two of the minor and minor seventh chord exercises, There's actually a couple of fingerings that you can use. I'll show you both ways, but one of them, you have to do a barcode, barcode across to two strings. So here's with the barcode. Now we're going from a D minus seven, which is this shape. What I can do is I can reach over here and just move that finger over one string to the first string instead of being across two strings. The other way, if I did it like this, this is the way I usually like to do. If I'm using that shape, is because the way I would do that with the first finger on the second string and the second finger on the first string of the first fret like that. And then we go for this one, and then you just lift up this finger, move it over one string for the G7. And then another change that we've done before, the C chord, C to the C minus seven is very easy. Just lift that finger up and that becomes a C minus seven. And then the d minus seven from there, you already have a finger. If you're playing this with the bar chord, then use need to lay that finger flat and put second finger down on the second fret of the third string. Like that. But if you're using the other, the other way fingering this, do that, leave that finger there. Put the other second finger at the side of it on the first fret of the first string to the d minus seven. And then same kind of core changes as before. Now with going from a G to an a minor, we're just taking that finger over these two fingers and moving over like this, like that. Now the next change is a minor to the C7. Just leave those two fingers where they are. Take this third finger and move it over to the fifth string, and then put this little finger onto the third string on the third fret to get that seven. That's seven. Note that she a C7 chord. So that's the exercise. Two fingerings, give that one a try in the next video. 44. Major7ChordsExercise Explained: So we're going to look now at major seventh chords. So what we'll do is we'll compare the major seventh with the dominant seventh chords that we looked at earlier. Now, we know that the, the dominant seventh, the seventh note in that chord is actually a flattened seventh. So what we need to do to get the major seventh is to make that note sharp a C major scale, e.g. that was the flat seventh. So what we can do is just make one fret higher, a half-step higher, which is actually the same as the open string. And that's how we actually get our C major seven chord. We just leave that second string open. So that's a nice, nice, easy cord. Use neat to think for that one. Now let's look at the a major seventh. So we know that already that the dominant seventh, we're leaving that third string open. So if we make that sharp, then we just need to put a finger down on the first fret on that third string. And then we got this kind of triangle shaped like that. So that's our a major seven. So let's go through the cage chords. We had a G7 like this. With that for the dominant seventh. So that, that seventh note will be there. If you make that sharp to get the major seventh, then that will give us a note there on the second fret of the first string. So that's a C major seven. Now if we go to the E seven, so the E7, so the E dominant 7th had that fourth string open. So what we need to do is make that note sharp. And then we put in pointing a finger down on that first fret of the fourth string. So that's our E, E major seven. So the D major seven, let's take a look at that. The D dominant seventh chord was like this. We had, we had our seventh note there. So if we make that sharp, what we'll do is go up one fret to the second fret. And then what you end up with is, is a chord that has, has the strings press down all the way across the first, second, and third string on the second fret. So you could either use a single finger for that or are you sick? Separate fingers. Now I've also added one other chord with the F major seven. I've just added this in there because it's a nice, easy cord that you can use on for strings. And they have the first, third, and fifth. There's the major seventh of the chord. So that's a nice, easy one that you can also use. So that's our major seventh chords. So in the next video, we'll go through the exercises for the major seventh chords. 45. Major 7th Chords Exercise 1 - Lesson: As we move into these major seventh chord exercises, your core vocabulary is now increasing. So you have to be a little bit careful because some of these chords are not major sevenths then mixed in with the other chords, the seventh and the minor sevenths. So in this first exercise, we have a C major seven going to be going to a minus B7, back to the B7 minus seven, and then a G major seven. In that progression. This first changed from the C major seven to the B7. There's not much you can hang on to. You just have to move all of your fingers in the most efficient way like this. Now there is one trick that you could do with this, since you are playing a C major seven, you could use fingers 2.1 on the fifth and the fourth string like this. Well, that would allow you to do is just move these two fingers down. And then those two fingers apart of that be B7 chord. So you just need to put down the third and the fourth finger. That would be a nice smooth change. You could do there. Personally, I might not even think to do that if I'm just reading the chords, might just do that by habit and then go to this. But that is one way. One way you can make it a little bit easier. Alright, so from the movie Sam to the A7, you have two fingers like this. Move that finger over one fret with the second finger over one frame. And the first finger, you move it over to the second string. And then back again. Those two fingers would go together. You put down the third and the fourth finger. On the second fret. Then you back to the CCF. You do this again. And then a minus seven again. And then to the G major seven, you got these two fingers together. This third thing is not down, but you can just move those over easily to the fifth and the sixth string. And then this first finger will go over the second fret of the first string. So that's the chord changes in exercise one. 49. Major 7th Chords Exercise 2 - Lesson: Now in major chord exercise number two, what we're looking at is a lot of finger switching where this is really good exercise in finger independence because all it'd be fingers have to kinda move in different directions. Going from the E major seven chord. What has to happen here is these two fingers have to switch around the first and second finger going from this switching strings. And then this third finger needs to go over onto the second string. So it's good to practice those, those moves to get them as smooth as possible. Now the next chord is a C major seven. So there's a finger there that you could keep in place, which is the second finger. And then you have moved this third finger over to the fifth string for the C major seven. So he could do that chord like that. And then the D major seven after it. Personally, I think I might use one finger across three strings, but you could go from, from that. You could put three separate fingers on there if you want to do that and then go into the E chord, you just have to make your way over to those positions that you need to, your fingers need to be on the E chord. Now going from an E to an E major seven, you have to switch your fingers around. Every one of them has to be, has to be moved. So you want to try just practice making those changes as smooth as possible. Again, go to the E major seven. When you go to the a major seven, you're switching around again the way I do this as I put the first finger on the first fret of the third string, and then the other two fingers go on the second fret. Now here's where we're going from an a major 72 and a minus seven. So what I do is I would move that first finger over to the second string and take this third finger off, and then go into the D major 7 h would tend to use a bar across those three strings, but you could use separate fingers for that with no problem. And then go, you have to make your way over again to this E major seven. So it's good to practice just changing between the chords first before you go into the exercises that follow, then you'd be been a little bit better shape. So give the exercise of trying the next video. 53. Major 7th Chord Exercise 3 - Lesson: In exercise three, we're going from F major seven, which you can play as a fourth string chord. Or you could also, because I have that in the base, It's also notes, also part of the chord. And then going from the F major seven to the e minus seven, you have one finger that's already on the fourth string. You could take that one down and then just put the second finger beside it. And then you have your E minor. Now the following chord is a minor. What you could do if you, if you use the configuration I like to use, which is having the third finger reached to the farthest fret. I will just move those two fingers over like that. Now there is an alternative. Alternative changed will be like this quote from the E minor and then just moving that, keeping that third finger on the fourth string and then moving this second finger over. And then doing the a minor like that, which is, you could, you could do that. There is another advantage to that because the next chord is actually an F major seven, where you could move that finger up to play the F major seven so that, that would actually, it would actually make sense. Following the F major seven is a C major seven. C major seven. You just have to move these two fingers over this finger off. And then there's, uh, you gotta be careful here. So D minor seven. D minor seven is this shape. Our tend to use a bar, but you could use separate fingers for that. Before and then followed by a G. So I would probably use the little finger there going from this one. And then a minor, which I think I mentioned before, similar to go into a C code where you just move in this third finger like that. So that's our exercise. Three chords. Have a go at that. In the next video. 56. Suspended Chords - Explained: We're going to take a look now at suspended chords. So what is a suspended chord? Well, in classical music, a suspended chord is basically a cord where you're holding over one note from a previous chord. And I'll give you an example here. If I play a G chord and playing this as a for forefinger code here, just because it works better in this example. So I play a G chord there. Now if I'm going to a D chord, what I can do is I can play a chord like this, which is, which is a D suspended chord and then called resolving it back to that, that, that note that I just played here, the F sharp. So I'm playing this suspended Kobayashi, suspended from the previous G chord, D. Now I can also do, if I went from a C chord, I could, I could do the same thing where if I go from C to a D, I could go like this. Where this note here will be held over from the C chord, this E. And then I would resolve it to this F sharp. In the same way. Now, a suspended chord is neither major or minor. The reason is because it doesn't have a third in the chord. So this, these courts can actually go from, from from a suspended to a minor chord or from from a suspended to a major chord. So that's kinda from an older, an old pop song. I can't remember the name at the moment. Now, in music today, suspended chords don't necessarily have to be resolved and they're used very frequently in jazz. And you may just have that suspended chord and not be resolved. So that's where suspended chords got their name from. Now, we'll be taking a look in the exercises at various types of suspended chords. Now on the sheet that comes with the course, you'll find suspended chords of both suspended seconds and suspended fourths on each of the cage chords. So let's take a look at some of those chords in the next exercise. 57. Suspended Chords Exercise 1 - Lesson: In exercise one of the suspended chords, we using a sus4 and an ace us to along with an a chord. So we're going from the source for the a chord to the a two and then back to them. Now the way I recommend that you do this, and there are certainly a number of ways that you could do it. I recommend that you use the fingering that I, I mentioned before. This is the finger and the I like putting the second finger on the fourth string, first finger on the third string, and the third finger on the second string. And then using the little finger to play that suspended note there on the second string, on the third fret. Then you would lift going from a source for that finger off. And then lift one more finger off, which will be the third finger. To play the ace us to. Now, you could do that another way. There's another way that you could do it was for me to just, just like that third finger gone onto the third fret and then come back to the, to this one. But I think that's a little bit more messy and it's more chance for you to mess up when you strum in those chords. So it's some more definite and more definite, clear change if you use separate fingers for this. Now the next cords or the E suspended cause now what we're doing here is we're starting off with an a and an E suspended fourth, I like to use this shape for the E as, as, as, as we did previously. And then put the put the little finger down for the suspended note and then lift back off to go back to the e. Now there's another chord here which has an E, s2. And the way we can do that is to slide, if you're using that little finger, is sliding that one up there and I'm putting it, putting a finger down there like that. So the suspended node will be this one actually. Have, you actually have unison. The same note there on the third and fourth string, which, which works out fine. So you're going from sus4 to the e two. So that's the chords in the first exercise. Give it a try. 61. Suspended Chords Exercise 2 - Lesson: In suspended chord exercise too, because we're using a G to a D. So if I'm playing this G chord as a fore finger, forefinger cord. And then the de sus two is easy because you can just move a finger over to the third string. You've already got these fingers down. The D chord. Now, the next one is a C2 or a CSS2. What that is, it's like a C chord, but instead of, he had first, third and the fifth, the notes of the scale. So I set up the third, we're playing a second. So I believe in that fourth string open, sorry. So that's a C suspended core. But because the third, the third of the scale will be the e, we also have an E on the first string. So instead of playing, I played that way. If I played that with an E, that would not be a true suspended chord. So what I'm doing instead is I'm, I'm putting fourth finger on the third fret of the first string, so I'm playing a G there, so then that would be a true C suspended second. Alright, so we've gotten that one and then that goes to, in this case goes to a D. So moving fingers over there like that so I can keep that one to pivot on that one. So I get, allows me to bring those fingers over here, D chord, and then back to the G. So I can, I can keep that one. Put this little finger down over here, and then bring these two fingers over there. The g. Now we're going from next chord is going from a minus. So we've got this a minor shape, but it's starting out with an a sub two. So that one will leave them, the, the second string open and then go to the a minor. And then again we're back at the DCIS, uses for going to the d. And then it goes to another C, C2, which is like this. And then that goes to the C chord. So he can, I can either leave this one on like that to give a little bit brighter sound and use, use these C chord. It's still a C Corp. Whether you have that finger on there are, despite that play with the open string. Then it goes back to what's now a G sub two. So the way we get a G S2 is by playing. We can play the G chord like that. But this finger, since that's the second note in the scale, 12345. So that's the second node, right? So I can leave that one off. So that will be a G suspended second. But because that we usually plays a b and the second string is also a b. We can, we can, if I played it like that, that wouldn't be correct. So what I'm gonna do is I'm holding down the third fret of the second string, as well as the first string. So, right, and then finish off with a G, So like that. So those are the chords of exercise to give those a try. These maybe these are a little bit different. So you probably have some new course to learn here. So I'll just go through the courts first, just big tried to become familiar with it and then give the exercises a try. 65. How To Play Strumming Patterns: Let's take a look now at strumming patterns. Now on the screen, we have the sheet that comes with the course. And you'll notice that the first line has, first thing on the line is it says 44 times so far for time, I'm assuming that you don't know anything here. It means that you have four quarter notes inside of a measure or a bar. Now what's a bar? A bar is, you see these lines here. This is actually a repeat sign. It's a type of bar, and here you have another bar going up. So between those two lines, we've got four coordinates. So those quarter notes, you can count 1234, right? And that's one measure. So high you a play that is, if you're strumming some chords, you just strum like this. Simple as that. Now, notice that each one of these coordinates here, it's a slash, and then it has kind of a stem on it. Right? On top of that, you see this is this thing here that looks like, I don't know, it's like an upside down U what that means is a downstroke and I don't know why that came from. I'm assuming that when you when you're looking at the pic, if using a pick, you see is if you can just imagine, that's kind of a downstroke. Because what is an upstroke is over here, which is like a v. So if you look at the pic, you see the PIC, It's kinda looked like a V. I'm not sure if that's where it came from, but anyway, basically downstrokes and this is an upstroke. So let's take a look now at exercise two over here. You notice that you've got you got two of these. And here we've got two notes that are tied together with this bar across. So what that means is these are actually not coordinates. These are eighth notes. And an eighth note, you can get to eighth notes inside of a quarter note. So the way you would count this is if I clap, it's going to go 123.4. So of course, you would strum that 1234 like that. So now we use in upstrokes, incidentally, if you're using your fingers, what I like to do is go down with one of the fingers and then come up with the thumb. So that's an effective way to do that without, without wearing out your fingers, especially on steel strings. That's an example too. So I just wanted to go through the other examples because the exercises that follow actually what happens is this symbol here is a repeat sign. So that means that you repeat when you see those two dots, that means it's pointing, is pointing this way. We see the two dots there is pointing that way. Alright, so between here and here, when you get to the end of this and you hit that, that repeat sign, what it means is repeat from the previous repeat sign, right? So each one of these lines is, each one of these lines has repeats like that. So you repeat every line. Okay, So let, let's just talk about some of the other things that you're going to come across in here. Here is on this exercise five. You got the first note, which is a quarter note. You got the second pair of nodes here, which are eighth notes. And then you've got this line here that's called a tie. What that means is that you join together the duration of those notes. So why would you want to do that? Well, the reason is because here if you're counting this and this is how you should count all of these. You should count 12, and then this will be 3.4 and right? But the way you play this is you play 12 and then you let that note sustaining to that one. So you wouldn't actually you wouldn't actually play on the three. You just let the, you let the chords ring for that, for that three count. And then you would play an upstroke there on the end of three back clap this. There'll be 12.3 and 4.5. I'm just strumming this. I'm going to Strom, Strom strum. Which brings me to another point about how you play these now that we're strumming, the best way to Strom and keep good time is to keep your hand moving. Even if you don't. Play a particular strum. You can keep time with your hand by keeping it in motion. So let's consider a count of 1.2 and 3.4. And if I count like that, what I'm gonna be doing is I'm gonna be moving my hand to each one of those counts, 1.2 and 3.4. And now in the case of example five over here, what I'm gonna be doing is I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be hitting the strings going down. I'm going to be skipping the up, right? And then the next one I'm going to be playing down and, and then skip for the three and then do the, and, and the four. And so it will be something like this. And 1.2, 3.4, that's how you count and play the notes that have the other chords that have ties on them. Now, the last thing that we have here is this is actually a rhythm slap or you actually stopping the, stopping the strings from ringing. So in this case, if I'm going to play this chord like this, I'm gonna go 12 341234. That's what the big X is, four. So let me demonstrate now how to do the first four exercises. I'm gonna do the repeats to her when to do them quite fast. Don't worry about that. You're going to get chance to practice these nice and slow. I'm just doing it so that we don't spend a whole lot of time doing this. Here's from exercise one, so I'm going to count 12, 341-234-1234, repeat 23123, second line, 123, 41234. And repeat 23.4, 1234. I exercise three. Repeat. Exercise for repeat. I think I got that last one wrong. Anyway, it should be four beats in each bar. Let me just do exercise five through seven. Here we go. That's how those go. Now another thing I want to mention is the reason I didn't put quads with these is because once you get used to playing these with one chord, try the exercises with two chords. Now, I've put some suggestions for different chords that you might want to try. And what that will do is you're going to get used to reading and playing a different rhythm for a different chord. Let's say that you have a little trouble playing from between the a and the d. Exercise three plane with those, those two chords will be like this, 1234. So that way you can take any two chords that you want to practice and also get used to playing those rhythms. Changing the rhythm a little bit with each time you play. So it makes, it makes your playing a little bit more interesting though is that they exercise is. So don't be shocked that there's no music. You're just gonna get a click in the next tracks. And you're gonna get the graphics of the strumming patterns. So give those a try and give you a chord changes. A good workout with these strumming patterns. 73. Hanging Out Rhythm Explanation: Let's take a look at how we strum hanging out. You'll notice that this is written in 34 time. Now, the reason I wrote this in 34 time is because it has a very strong pounding bass that's going on each one of the counts. But on top of it you've got this syncopated rhythm, which uses eighth notes. So the way you can count this, you can actually account this in 68 time. So let's take a look now at the actual note values that are written down here. The first note is what you call a dotted quarter note. This, this is a slash notation, so it's a slash. Without that, it will be a quarter note, but it's a dotted quarter note. What the dark does is it increases the value of it by half of its value. So you can count 123 and put the end in-between to get the eighth note, so one and 2.3 n. So in this case where you have, we have this dotted quarter note, you count 1.2, right? So that's your three counts. So 1.2, and then this next note will be on the end of two, right? So you've got 1.2 and then this is, this is an eighth note and it's tied to another eighth note. So that would mean that on the count of three, then you would just hold that note, right? And then the last, the last drum in this measure will be on the end. So actually what you would get is you get 1.2. Then this will be the next strum and three, and then this will be the last one. So those would be the 3s drums. So we go one and 2.3. And now let's take a look at the next measure. The only difference here is we can have the same counts, right? So you've got one, and I can just draw this with a mouse one and 2.3. And the only difference here is you don't have this tied note. So that means that you are counting. You'd be counting one and 2.3. And right. So that will be your strobe. So one and 2.3. And so the total sequence goes like this. You got one and 2.3 add one and 2.3 and 1.2 and 3.1 and 2.3. And so that's the rhythm pattern. Now I'm doing, I'm using a ukulele for this just for just for convenience, just because I have it handy. And it's, and it's easier to show you the strumming pattern is like this. We've got 1 and 2, and 3, and 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3. So we alternate between those two. And it's like that through the whole piece, the course change, but that's basically the rhythm. So once you've got that rhythm, he just changing the courts. So in the next video, can try it nice and slow, and then you can bring it up to speed for the final track of hanging out.