Guitar Masterclass - Complete Beginner Guitar Course

1. Introduction: Hello, good to have friends out there and welcome to my beginner guitar masterclass. You've always wanted to play the guitar, but you don't really know how and where to start. Then this course is exactly what you need. My name is Jacob. I'm a professional guitar teacher and I've been teaching for over ten years and I've helped many people are becoming better at playing the guitar. In this course, I will teach you everything that the beginning guitarists needs to know. You will learn the most important beginner guitar chords, the strumming patterns. And it will also teach you how to sing and play songs. In addition to that, I will give you some valuable practice tips that will help you getting faster results. The course is structured in a detailed step-by-step approach to make sure that everybody can follow no matter if you have any musical experience at all so far. If you want to finally make your dream of playing the guitar come true, you need to do two things. The first thing is to click the follow button, but you will find somewhere here on the screen. So you will not miss any new lectures videos that I will be publishing here on Skillshare. And the second thing you need to do is to obviously start this class. I'm looking forward to seeing you inside. Have fun. 2. Strumming Basics 1: Down Stroke: In this lesson, I will show you the basics of the streaming technique. First of all, let's have a look at the shape of our right hand. So the hand at the wrist a fairly relaxed and our fingers are slightly curving. If you want to, you can imagine that you're holding a really light suitcase in your hand. Now I show you the downstroke. And by the way, I'm muting the strings with my left hand. So this is what the downstroke looks like. When doing a downstroke, your fingers hit the strings from bottom to top. Make sure that your fingers stay in this suitcase position. And so keep them gently curved in and don't stretch them away like this one playing. But keep the relaxed suitcase position. Another important thing is that the movement should come from your wrist. When you play. Many people have a really tight wrist. And so what they do is they move the whole arm when playing. This actually takes quite a lot effort and also a lot of time. So especially if you want to play fast, you will be much faster when the movement comes from the wrist. So I show this again to you. Now the wrist is relaxed and the movement comes from the wrist and the arm goes along with it. So allow the arm to move, but the arms shouldn't lead the movement. So I show you the other thing again. Now I have a tight wrist and you see I need to make a much bigger arm movement to get the same results. Relaxed Marist. A good way to practice this actually is by sitting in front of a mirror. And this will make it easier for you to control your movement and you will be able to observe it really clearly. So the two takeaways from this lesson are the suitcase position for your right hand and a strumming movement that comes from your wrist and not from your whole arm. So hope you enjoyed this lesson and I'll see you soon again. 3. Strumming Basics 2: Up Stroke: Now let's have a look at the abstract. The abstract is played by only using the thumb, and it usually comes after downstroke. So let's have a look at that. We go down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up. I show the movement again to you. Now. Now, when playing a downstroke, we usually hit up to six strings. When playing an abstract, this is actually not necessary. In fact, I wouldn't worry too much about how many strings you actually hit with your thumb. So sometimes you might only have one string, sometimes you might hit three strings. And that's all fine. Instead of focusing on the amount of strings that you hit, Focus on a steady beat and on a constant rhythmic movement. I do this again for you. We go down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up. So keep your thumb fairly straight. And make sure to have a steady beat. So now that you know the basics of the strumming technique, you're ready to learn your first strumming pattern, which we will be doing in the next lesson. See you soon. 4. Strumming Pattern 1: In this lesson, you're going to learn your first strumming pattern. The sign that you find on top of each node stands for downstroke. Strumming pattern only consists of downs. It sounds like this. 12341234. So go ahead and try to play and count the pattern. I do it again for you. The 12341234. So this should be fairly easy. Now I have a little challenge exercise for you. I want you to play the pattern number one and count eighth notes at the same time. This is what it sounds like. 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4. So this might be a bit tricky when you try it out for the first time. But I highly encourage you to practice this because it's an exercise that actually makes your voice and your hands are independent from each other. And it's really important to develop that skill, especially if you want to sing and play the guitar at the same time. So keep practicing and I'll see you in the next lesson. Bye. 5. Strumming Pattern 2: In this lesson, I'll show you how to play strumming pattern. Number two. You already know the sign for downstroke. And this new sign, which looks like a V, stands for upstroke. This pattern, you constantly alternate between downstroke, upstroke. I played for you. We go down, up, down, up, down, up, down, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up. Or if we count what we play, it would be 1.2 and 3.4, and 1.2 and 3.4. And go ahead and try to play this. I do it for you once more. 123.4. And as this strumming pattern only consists of eighth notes, the challenge exercise for this pattern will be to count coordinates y plane pattern number two. And here is how that sounds. 12 341-234-1234, half and practicing. And as you soon again in the next lesson, Bye. 6. Left Hand - Position: In this section you're going to learn your first courts. But first of all, I would like to talk a little bit about the left-hand position. To show you the basic position of the left hand, I move my fingers up to the seventh fret. And then a place one finger per fret on the G string. So this means my index finger, my first finger goes on the seventh fret. Second finger goes on Fred number eight, ring finger goes on thread, number nine, and the pinky finger goes on Fred. Number ten. Your knuckles should always be bent like this. So don't place your fingers like that. So keep the NACA, spend all the time. Another important thing is that you should touch the strings with the tips of your fingers. So don't touch the string here. But here. As you can see, it's also important to place your fingers close to the end of the thread. So this means close to the metal piece. So when I place my index finger on the seventh fret, I placed it here and not here. So that's a good place for it. And this is a small but actually huge difference because when you place your finger close to the end of the fret, the pitch will actually be more accurate and you will need less pressure. Your thumb should be fairly straight, and it will be located somewhere between the index and the middle finger. So this is what it looks like. Don't bend your sample over and hold it like this, especially when you have a classical guitar. There are actually western guitarists who use the thumb to play. But for now I would say, let's just leave it as I said it, so we keep the thumb straight and between index and middle finger. Socialists again to you. This is your basic position that you should try to keep in your hand. So these were some basic information about how to hold the left hand. In the next lesson, I will show you some quick warm-up exercises for your left hand fingers. 7. Left Hand - Warm Up Exercise: In this lesson, I'll show you a warm-up exercise that helps your fingers to develop strength and independence. Place your fingers on the third string, like you have them in the lesson before. So the first finger goes onto the seventh fret, and so on. Now, lift your index finger and move it around a little bit. It makes sure that the other fingers stay in place though. So they shouldn't like, move with it. They stay in their position and the index finger moves around a bit. And now tap your index finger onto the string like this. Make sure that the, that the knuckles are bent. So when you do the tapping movement, don't do it like this. So I go back to the correct way. As in the normal position. I can stay bent all the time. Right? So rest your index finger and now lift your middle finger. And first of all, just move it around a little bit and make sure the other thing is, stay in place. And then tap your middle finger a few times. And again, make sure that the knuckles stay bent and that the other thing is stay in place. If this is difficult for you, then you can always do the movement a little bit smaller, less pressure, smaller size of the movement. Rest of middle finger. Now, lift your ring finger and move it around a bit. You will probably notice that this movement is a lot harder for the ring finger. And this is quite useful. So the roofing is the most difficult finger to get independent from the others. So when you try the tapping exercise with the ring finger, just make the movement as small as it has to be. The ring finger movement will be smaller than the movement of the other fingers. Don't strain yourself. Try to be relaxed, tried to keep the other thing is in their position. And to do that, you just make the movements as small as you need it to be. And now take your little finger, move it around, and now tap it onto the string. After you've practiced that exercise for a few days, then you can start to move your fingers one fret lower so you can place your index finger on string. Your index finger on the fret number six, and so on. And over the weeks you can actually gradually move your fingers down until you've reached the first fret. So you see when I figured, when I place my fingers in this position, you see that they are quite far apart and this is because the threads are wider here than here. This is actually the reason why I start doing this exercise in the seventh, on the seventh fret. Because your fingers will need some time to get used to this stretched position. So yes, that on the seventh fret and when your fingers have gotten used to it, move further down week by week. You go further down until you are able to play in the first position and you're able to keep this stretch without feeling too uncomfortable. So this was our left-hand warm-up exercise. I encourage you to practice it regularly because it will be a lot easier for you to play codes when your fingers are warmed up properly. See you in the next lesson. 8. How to read Chord Diagrams & 1st Chord E-minor (Em): In this lesson, I'll teach you how to read chord diagrams. And it will also learn your first chord, E minor. So let's have a look at the chord diagram. We have six lines going down. And these six lines represent our strings. The left line is the low E string, or string number six, and the right line is string number one. The high E string. We also have some horizontal lines and they represent the threads. So looking at the chord diagram now, we have the second finger, which is the middle finger. And this finger goes on the second fret of the fifth string. Second fret, second finger, a string. So this is where we have to place our middle finger. And our ring finger goes on the second fret of the D string. The circles mean that we have to play open strings to. So you see the circles up here. And they tell us that we have to play the open string. So this is E minor, and I played for you once. Another way of playing E minor is by using the first and the second finger. So in this case, the first finger goes on the second fret, a string. And the second thing that goes on the second fret, D string. So this was E minor. See you in the next lesson. Bye. 9. Chord E-Major (E): In this lesson, I'll teach you how to play the chord, E major. E major chord looks pretty similar to E minor. We have as well the second finger on the second fret of the a string, and the third finger on the second fret of the D string. And now we have to add our first finger on the first fret of the G string. And this is how nature sounds. So this was E Major. See you in the next lesson. 10. Chord E7: In this lesson, I'll show you two ways of playing the chord E7. To play seven, you have to place your second finger on the second fret, a string, and your first finger on the first fret, G string. You can also imagine the E7 chord as being the E major chord, but without the ring finger. Another way of playing E7 is by playing a major first. So second finger on the second fret, a string, third finger on the second fret, D string, and first finger on the first fret, G string. And then you add the fourth finger, the pinky finger, on the third fret of the B string. So the E7 version with two fingers is obviously the easier one. But anyway, I encourage you to practice both versions because it's always good to have a choice. And the second version is a great training for your pinky finger. So see you in the next lesson. Bye. 11. Strumming Pattern 3 : Strumming pattern number three consists of quarter notes and eighth notes. And it sounds like this. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 1, 2, 3, 4 and 1, 2, 3, 4, down, down, down, down, up, down, down, down, down. Now I have to challenge exercises for you. The first challenge exercise is to count coordinates y playing the pattern. So we go 1234, 1234, 1234, 1234. And the second exercise, you might have already guessed it is to count eighth notes, wavelength the pattern. So we go 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4, 1 and 2 and 3 and 4. And so have fun practicing and see you soon again in the next lesson. Bye. 12. Strumming Pattern 4 : In this lesson, I'll show you how to play strumming pattern number four. So let's get straight into it. We go down, down, up, down, down, up, down, down, up, down, down, up. And now I count what I play. 12.3, 4.1, 2.34, and so go ahead and try to play this. I do it for you once more. 12.3, 4.1, 2.34. So now let's try out our two challenge exercises. First of all, I count quarter notes while playing the pattern. 12, 341-234-1234. Now, I count eight nodes while playing the pattern 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4. You can also try to play this pattern and use one of the courts that you've already learned. So e.g. E minor. So apply the pattern again for you. With the E minor chord. We go down, down, down, down, down, down. Have fun practicing, and I'll see you in the next lesson. Bye. 13. Strumming Pattern 5 : Now let's have a look at strumming pattern. Number five. I played for you. We go down, down, down, up, down, up, down, down, down, up, down, up, down, down, down, up, down, up. Or if we count what we play, it would be like 1, 2, 3 and 4. 1, 2, 3 and 4, and 1, 2, 3 and 4 and 1, 2, 3 and 4. And then try out our two challenge exercises. So first of all, I count coordinates while playing the pattern. 1234, 1234, 1234, 1234. And now I count eighth notes while playing the pattern 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4, 1, 2 and 3 and 4. And by the way, this strumming pattern is actually used by Bob Dylan in his song knocking on having store. And strumming pattern number three, which you've already learned as well. And if you're interested in learning that song, you can actually go onto my YouTube channel where I provide a free tutorial. So if you are able to play that strumming pattern and strumming pattern number three, you've already built the foundation for the knocking and have installed strumming. See you in the next lesson. Bye. 14. Are you sleeping - Demo: The thing is the John Ross, Ronnie mastery mastering. And Tom Tom 15. Are you sleeping - Chords & Strumming: In this lesson, I would like to show you the code and the strumming pattern that we will need to play isolated. So as you can see, we only have one code in this song, which makes it a great beginner song. And this chord is E major with the second, third, and first finger. And the striping pattern that I'm using is pattern number four, which goes 12.3, 4.0. In other words, down, down, down, down. Let's go through the song. We have eight measures of E major altogether, and then we add another downstroke on the E major chord. So eight full measures, and then one downstream. Let me guide you through the song. We go 12.34 and the second measure, 12.3. And third measure 12.3. Fourth measure, 1.3. For now we have the second line. We go 1234, second measure, 123. Third measure, 12.3. Fourths measure 1234. And then one. We don't play a full measure which asked add another downstroke. I think it's quite important to finish a song on a downstroke because this makes it clear that the song is over. So always finish on a down. And we can do this by adding another downstroke. Like these. In this example, we play the last measure, the last full measure, measure number 81234, and then one. And then I finished the song on this downstroke on the E major chord. In the next video, I have a playlist for you that you can use to practice the strumming pattern, the court and the rhythm. Have fun with it, and I'm looking forward to seeing you there. 16. Are you sleeping - Playalong: 1, 2 and 3, 4, 2, 3, 1, 3, 1, 2, and 3. 17. Are you sleeping - Tips on Singing: In this lesson, I would like to give you some tips on seeing. When we sing and play the guitar the same time. It's obviously important that we've seen in the right key. So the voice and the guitar matched together. So it's quite important to find the first note, the starting node, the first node we're going to see. And we can do this by playing the G major chord. Are you sleeping? And we can find the starting node by listening to them. Are you sleeping? Or another way is to play the individual string. In this case, it would be the fourth string. This is the notes e. By the way, you see the third finger on the second fret place at nodes. So I just leave my hand in the a major position, EMH position, sorry. Ah, any kept phi, just start by listening to the individual notes. So now let's go through the whole song together. Use the use the jog during morning bizarre ringing. And don't forget to add another downstroke at the end of the song. So let me show the end again to You, De Ding ding dong for one, that the song is finished. So this was our lesson on how to play I sleeping. I hope you enjoyed it. And I'm looking forward to seeing you soon again in one of the next lessons. 18. How to Practice : In this lesson, I would like to speak about practicing. Already have several years of teaching experience. I know that students usually come up with similar questions concerning this topic. In this video, I'm trying to answer some of these questions. The first and most common question is, how often and how long should I practice? The general answer to that is, many short practice sessions will give you better results than one long practice session. So this means if you practice the guitar for 15 min every day, we get better results than when you practice the guitar once a week for 2 h. So really try to practice every day, especially at the beginning. And no matter how short your practice sessions are. So even if they're just 10 min or even if they're just 5 min long. When you consistently practice every day practicing guitar, we become parts of your daily routine. Then furthermore, it will become a habit. When you've reached that state, you will continuously improve. Another common question is, how can I stay motivated? And the basic answer to that is, have realistic goals and expectations. So I know this is pretty difficult because there are many online guitar courses out there, many teachers out there who promised you to make a great guitar player out of you within four weeks. But the truth is, this is nothing more than a marketing strategy. Every single person who is good at playing an instrument has practiced for months and years. And so if you've been practicing the guitar for, let's say, three or four weeks now and you haven't become a guitar Pro yet. Don't worry. Don't get frustrated, stay motivated because it just takes more time to get a great level. Another great way to stay motivated is by placing the guitar somewhere in your house or in your room where it's constantly visible. So you can get a guitar stand, e.g. or even hang the guitar onto your board. And I promise you if you constantly see your guitar, you will be more likely to pick it up in practice. Now I would like to answer the question, when should I not practice? And the most obvious answer to that question is you should not practice when you are ill. And this obviously makes sense. You also should not practice when you are very tired. Because when you're tired, your mind won't be able to focus on your practice task. And so in the end, you don't make any improvement. So it's really important to choose the right practice time for you. The right practice time is a time when you feel refreshed and energized. And this varies from person to person. So some people like to practice early in the morning after they get out of bed. Others like to practice in the evening when they come back from work. And others like to practice late at night. So try and figure out what your best practice time is. And try to practice during these times because it will make a huge difference in your practice results. So this was our lesson on practicing. I hope that I could provide some valuable information for you and also hope that you will enjoy your next practice session even more. See you soon again. Bye-bye. 19. Chord Changes - Introduction: Changing chords is a really difficult task for many people. And this is the reason why I devoted several sections of this course to that topic. Because if you follow some certain rules and guidelines and if you watch out for certain things, then it will be much easier to practice code changes. So in this section and in the other sections about this topic, I want to go through common core changes with you and to show you how to practice them the right way. Alright, so the basic rule, number one is choose and easy strumming pattern. Changing chords is a really difficult task for your left hand. So you want to focus all your attention onto that task. If you have a difficult strumming pattern, then you also have a difficult task for your rights and your attention is more likely to shift around picking easy strumming pattern. And so you can focus entirely on your left hand. Once you've mastered the code change, you can obviously try a more difficult strumming pattern. Rule number two, make all movements as small as possible. So many people tend to get quite hectic when they have to transition between two quotes. And so they make the movement is far too big. And this would cost time and effort obviously. So when you transition from one core to another, make sure that each finger goes the direct way to the fret where it has to be placed. Next. Rule number three. Press all fingers down at the same time. Many people, as I mentioned before, they get tactic when the practice code changes and what they do is they press the fingers down one after another, so they would go something like this. And if you do that, you will be able to keep your beat. The rhythm won't be steady anymore. So approach the position of the new code and then press down the fingers. Whatever code you are playing. I I reach a position and then I press the thing is down at the same time. So that's a pretty important thing to look for. So this was the introduction on the topic core changes. In the following lessons, we will be looking at certain changes to put these rules into practice. See you there. 20. Chord Change E - Em: So the first chord change you learn is the change from E major, E minor. To change from E major to a minor, you have to do is lifting your first finger. And when you change back to image, again, you place your first finger on the first fret. Again. Let me play this for you. I play strumming pattern number one, so I go 34. Now lift the index finger and place it for your second and your third finger. Remain where they are. And it's just the first finger who is placed on the G string when you play E major, and who is lifted when you play E minor. So this was our first call change. See you in the next lesson. 21. Chord Change E - E7: Our next chord change is the change from E major to E7. To change from E major to E7, all you have to do is lifting your third finger. And when you change back to E Major, you place your third finger down again on the second fret of the D string. So let me play strumming pattern number one, starting with E major, we go lift the ring finger, E7. One. Place the ring finger down again. Lifted. It's also try the second version of E7. In this case, we'll leave the E major chord as it is. When we change to E7, we place our fourth finger on the third fret of the B string. So I'll play this for you using strumming pattern number one. And starting with E major, we go 1234. Then place the full thing or down and lifted a major seven. So this was our second core change, has been practicing and I'll see you in the next lesson. Bye. 22. Chord D-Major (D): In this lesson, I'll show you how to play the chord D major. To play D major, we place our first finger on the second fret of the G string. The third finger on the third fret of the B string, and the second finger on the second fret of the high E string. The low E string and a string are excluded from this course. So I start playing from the fourth string. And when you strumming, it means you have to make your strong movements really small. So you don't hit the low strings. Now try to practice the D major chord with one of the strumming patterns that we've already learned. E.g. pattern number 4, 1 2 3 4, 1 2 3 4, 1 2 3 4, 1, 2, 3, 4. And so see you in the next lesson. Bye bye. 23. Chord A7: In this lesson, I'll show you a few ways to play the chord A7. To play a seven, you have to place your first finger on the second fret, D string, and your second finger on the second fret, B string. Another way of playing A7 is by placing second finger on the second fret of the D string, and the third finger on the second fret, the string. There is also a third way of playing A7. You place your first finger on the second fret, D string, and your third finger on the second fret be string. I have to say this is a pretty uncommon way of playing A7. Actually, you would only use this fingering when you play an a major chord, e.g. when you change to A7 and you just lift your second finger and then you have this fingering. But in other cases, I would recommend one of the other two fingerings. Now we'd like to show you a different version of A7. You start by playing an, a major chord. So the first thing that goes on the second fret of the D string, second finger goes on the second fret, G string. And the third thing that goes on the second fret, B string. Then you add your little finger, the fourth finger on the third fret of the high E string. So this is another way of playing A7. So play around a bit with the different versions of a sudden. It's always good to have more than one version of your code repertoire. See you in the next lesson. 24. Chord Change D - A7: In this lesson, I'll show you how to change from D major. Seven. First of all, I will demonstrate the core change a few times. And I will use the A7 version with the first and the second finger. Anywhere. I start with D major using strumming pattern number one. So I go 134-871-3134 and A7, one more entity. In this case, the shape of the first and the second finger is the same for both courts. So if I just use these two fingers, this would be the D major position, and this would be the A7 position. So what I try in this case is to keep this shape. And when I play D major, I add the third finger. When a player A7, I remove the third finger, but finger one and to stay in the same shape. So this is a great way to make the movement smaller. So it will be easier for you to change between these two quotes. And then play it again for you. Starting with D major. For A7, 343434. Let's also try the other A7 fingering. So in this case, I use the second finger and the third finger. And when you change to D major, your third finger remains on the B string. Actually, it remains constantly in contact with the string. I. Show this again to you. We start with D major and switch to A7. And the third finger slides along the B string. Alright, I play this for you now using pattern number one, starting with the major, form, a 7133471 major one. Now trial to play this code change by using strumming pattern number four. So I started in D major and I go 1, 2, 4 and 1, 2, 3, 4 and 1, 2, 3, 4 and 1, 2 and 3 and 1. So see you in the next lesson. Bye bye. 25. Rock my soul - Demo: Nice, So the right hand rub my soul and my soul and Abraham drug. You can get over it so you can get applied. You can get around this CAT scan. 26. Rock my soul - Chords & Strumming: In this video, I would like to show you the courts and the strumming pattern that you will need to play rough myself. First of all, let's have a look at the codes. We only have two codes in the sun, and these quotes are major with the first, third, and second finger. And A7. Second and first thing. If you need to practice any of these codes, or if you need to practice a code change between this course and please go back to the code section of this course. The strumming pattern that we'll be using is pattern number four, which goes 12.34. Or in other words, down, down, up, down, up, down. Now let's go through the whole song. We start in D major and we go 1234. Second measure, 12.34, and change to A7. Make sure you do a small movement with the first and second finger, 12.34 and again, 12.34. And second line, D major, 1, 2 and 3, 4 and 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 7, 1, 3, 4. And at D 1.3. For now the last two lines are actually a repetition of line number 1.2 concerning the courts and the lyrics are different, but the courts, the court changes are the same. So we stopped in D-major again, 12341234, and then A7, 12.34, and again, 12.3 D again 134 and again 1234, and then A7, 1234. And the last measure, 12.3. So in this case, I finish on the three. As you know, it's good to finish a song on a downstroke, because this makes it clear that the song is over. And you can either do is do this by attaching and other downstroke to the last measure. Or you can sort of play like half the measure as I'm doing in this song. So I don't pay the full measure. I play 12.3 and I stop on a three on the down. And this makes it clear that the song is over. In the next lesson, I have played out for you that you can use to practice these code changes. I'm looking forward to seeing you there. Bye. 27. Rock my soul - Playalong: 1, 2 and 3. 4, 1, 2, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3 1 3 1 3 3 1 3 1 3, 1 3, 1 3 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3. 28. Rock my soul - Tips on Singing: In this video, I would like to give you some tips on singing. First of all, it is important to find the starting node, the first node that you're going to see. And you can do this by playing the whole D major chord. The rock mice. So five-year note by listening to the course, the rock. Or you can play the individual fourth string, the open string, which is the notes D. Rock at seeing that node. So this is the first node that you're going to see. Rock. Next important thing is to know where the core changes. And I like underlining the words and syllables where you have to change the course. I've done this for each one of your PDF documents. So check this out. And now let's go through the whole song. We started in D major. Wrong, my blue bars, a rock and rock on the word rock, we go to A7, rock, a rock. And again, on the birth of rock, we go back to D major. So that's quite easy to remember so far. Wrong. Look, bars and Abraham. Oh, we go to A7. Oh, Rock Nine. And on. So we come back to D major. Now we are at the third line. You can get all the red on the soul. We go to a seven so you can scan again. So here's the code change back to D major. So you can get around it. Can on Kant's A7 CAT scans. Oh, I don't know. We come back to D major again, and I will finish on the three. So this was our lesson on how to play rock my soul. I hope you enjoyed it and I'm looking forward to seeing you soon again in one of the next lessons. 29. Chord Change Em - D: This lesson, I'll show you how to change from E minor to D major. I play this chord change a few times for you, starting with E minor, D major, 1343 major 1234. So these two quotes actually don't have any notes in common. So yeah, the only way to practice this code change properly is by making your movements as small as possible. But move your fingers slowly and fluently. As I said, small movement is the key to success in this case, it doesn't matter if you play an E minor with first and second finger or with second and third finger. You can try out if one way of doing it is easier for you. Alright? So make small movements when practicing this core change. And another thing you have to keep an eye on is your right-hand movement. So when you play the E minor chord, you basically strum over six strings. But when you play the D major chord, you need to make your strumming movement smaller, so you only hit the bottom four strings. And back to E minor, you make the movement bigger again. There are actually a few songs that only consists of these two coats, e.g. lady in black by your eye, a heap, a host with the name by America. Or what should we do with the drunken sailor? So if you are able to change between E minor and D major fluently, you've actually built the foundation for playing some great songs. See you in the next lesson. 30. Drunken Sailor - Demo: Shall we say, shall we do with the trunk and say that once showering with the trunks and say that she rises. Rises and rises. 31. How to use the Capo: In this lesson, I would like to explain to you how to use this little thing called capa. You probably noticed that I was using the k Pu in the song demonstration of what shall we do with a drunken sailor. And now let me show you how this thing works. So when I place the Keiko onto the guitar, the cable actually makes the fretboard shorter. And so there's sound of the guitar gets higher. Let me just demonstrate this. I play an E minor chord. And now I put the capo on the third fret, e.g. and I play the E minor chord again. So you can hear there's hold sound of the guitar is getting higher. And this is really great if you have a song that doesn't really fit your voice. So referring to the song, What should we do with the drunken sailor? In this key with these course with E minor, D major, it is a little bit too low for my voice. So when I use the Kapa on the third fret, I can still use the same code shapes. But the whole sound of the guitar gets higher. And so it feels more comfortable for my voice to sing it in that key. And if you have a cape or I actually recommend to get one. If not, you can also try out to use the Caple on different threads. And you can try to use it with all the songs that you're going to learn in this course too. Because everybody has a different voice. And it's really important to find the right key. So you always should feel comfortable when singing a song. The song is too low. Then just place the cape is somewhere on the guitar to make the sound higher. And you are, you don't have to change the course. That's a great thing. So you can still, like, I can still use the Image E minor shape, the D major shape. I just, I just changed the position of the capa. One more thing when I have the cape here on the third fret, e.g. when I say the first fret, I mean the first fret after the caper. And so here would be the second fret, and here the third fret. So when a play an E minor chord, I obviously didn't play it here. So this is my first fret. Now, the E minor chord is there. And whenever the Keiko somewhere else on the first fret, e.g. my E minor chord would be here. You should always place the K Polk close to this metal piece. So close to the end of the thread. Don't place it onto the metal piece. Might not see well in the camera. It's shortly, it's placed shortly before the end of the thread. That's a good position for the capa. Another great advantage of the caper is practicing new codes might become a bit easier. Until now we've mainly learned some easy courts, but later in this course you're going to learn chords that are more difficult, that require biggest stretching movements. And in fact, if you have a coat that is currently too difficult for you to play, just try out to practice it with the cape on the third fret, e.g. because the frets get less wide, the higher we get, the new courts might feel more comfortable for you until they are so comfortable enough that you can remove the caper. So that's another great thing and a great way of using the cable. So see you in the next lesson. Bye bye. 32. Drunken Sailor - Chords & Strumming: To play the song, What should we do with a drunken sailor? I used a strumming pattern, number four. And we only need two codes for this song, E minor and D major. I've already done a video lesson on how to practice the whole change between these two codes. So if you want to refresh it, just watch the video again. I'm now playing this lesson with the cape on the third fret because this is how will we be seeing it, seeing it later. But if you prefer to practice this without the cable, you can do that too. So let's go through it. We start in E minor and we play the one for second measure, 1234. Then we have D major, two measures of D major, 1234 and again 1234. Second line, 123-41-2341, measure of D major 1234, and back to E minor 1234. And then we do the whole thing again. So this would be one verse. Now, if we repeat it, we have the second verse. And when we do it the second time in the last measure, which has played 12.34. So it's always good to finish the song on a downstroke. And so I don't play the complete strumming pattern. I just finished on the down, that comes on beats number three. So just to make clear that the song is now over, I do this again for you. The last measure would be three. Alright, so in the next lesson I will have a play along and you can jam along with it after you've practiced the code changes. See you there. 33. Drunken Sailor - Playalong: 1, 2 3, 4, 2, 3, 1, 2 3, 1 2 3 and 4. 1 3, 3, 1, 2, 3, 4. 34. Drunken Sailor - Tips on Singing: In this lesson, I would like to give you some tips on singing and playing the guitar the same time. One of my basic tips is that you should always know exactly where your code change has to take place. And to facilitate that. I think it's helpful to sort of mark the words where you change the chord. And I've actually done this for you in one of the PDF versions in this song. This is pretty easy to detect actually because in the beginning we always change the code on the word what? So let's go through this. We start on the word Watt with the E minor chord. It would be something like one shall we do with drunk? Say, now for change to D wants, and we have the same word. So again on the, what shall we do with that drunk can say. Now we change the code again to E minor and we see again the word, what, what shall we do with the drunken say? So easy to remember until here. And now we have one measure of D major where we go. So the last two words, other words early and the word morning. So on early we change to D major. Morning we change back to E minor. And now let's have a look at the second verse, which is pretty similar. So in the beginning we always change on the word hooray. So we have like the E minor chord and we go Ray and she rises and change to D major with hooray again. Ray. And she writes back to E minor on her Ray. Ray, and she rises. And the last two core changes are again on the words early and mourning. The other important thing is to find the first node. So your very first note on which he starts singing. One way of doing that is by just playing the first chord, which is E minor. And the first node is actually contained in this course. So if you have a musical ear, if you're quite good at that, then you will be able to detect your first node just by playing the course. If this is too difficult for you. So if you have too many notes to choose from and you don't know exactly where to start. Then I just showed you which note this would be. Let's have a look at the E minor chord. And the note that we start on is the nodes B. And we have the notes under the first finger. Second fret of the a string. Or if you use the different fingering for E minor, like with second and third finger, it would be the note under the second finger. And you can just play this note, fifth string, second fret. And then you just sing it along with the plate. If that's easier way for you, just do it that way you play the notes. And then you start seeing what shall we do with the drunk, and so on. And yeah, by the way, it doesn't matter if you use the cable or not, or if you use the cape on a different thread, it will always be the first node you are going to seem will always be the nodes under your first finger. Or if you use the fingering with second, third finger, It's the nodes under your second finger. So this is the first node for you to stop the song. Just played once, then you can hear it. And then it's easier to start off singing. That's the end of the song election on some lecture on how to play. What should we do with the drunken sailor? Have fun practicing and I'm looking forward to see you soon again. Bye-bye. 35. Chord A-Major (A): In this lesson, I'll show you how to play the chord, a major. To play a major, we place our first finger on the second fret, D string, second finger on the second fret, G string, and the third finger on the second fret string. In this case, you might have to bend your wrist a little bit. So you will be able to reach all the nodes you have to play properly. And I play the chord for you starting from the fifth string. Here is another way of playing a major. Take your second finger and place it on the second fret of the D string. Your third finger goes on the second fret, G string. And your pinky finger, the fourth finger goes on the second fret, B string. So go ahead and try both versions and see which one works better for you. See you in the next lesson, Bye. 36. Chord Change A - D - E - A: In this lesson, you learned your first three chord progression. And this three chord progression consists of a major, D major, and D major. So let's have a look at the individual code changes first. So we start with the change from a major to D major. In this case, we leave the third finger on the B string. And when we change from a measure to D major related slide from the second to the third fret. So this is a major, slight third finger, d-major. The next chord change is the change from D major, E major. And in this case, we leave the first finger in contact with the G string. And we'll edit slide from the second fret to the first fret. So do this again for you. We have D major. The first thing is slides to the first fret, and the other two thing has changed their position. 1234, teenager back to D or E major one. And the last change is from E major back to a major. In this case, we don't have any fingers in common. So just make sure to do your movement very small. And you can actually leave the second and the third finger together so they touch each other. So when you do the change, keep these two fingers together and make the movement. So this is E major and a major. You see these two fingers kind of stick together. So they are doing this changing movement together. Now play the whole progression for you again slowly, we start with a major, and I use strumming pattern number one, we go one. Change to D major, ring finger stays on the string, 1234, changed to E major. First thing is stays in the string 1234. Leaf second and third finger together, a major 1234. And again, I start with a 12,341,234.3, 4.3. As soon as you feel comfortable with all the core changes, tried to play one of our strumming patterns. So e.g. strumming pattern number five, and play each code for one measure. I start with a major, and we go 123.4 and 3.4, 3.5, I'm practicing, and I'll see you in the next lesson. Bye. 37. Oh Susannah - Demo: I come from a bad my bad Joe on my tie, going to buy so sad for too long to dry for me. I'm going to match mine. 38. Oh Susannah - Chords & Strumming: In this video, I would like to show you the codes and the strumming pattern that you will need to play. Oh Susanna. We have three chords in designing these codes are a major, with the first, second and third finger. Then E major, second, third, and first finger. D-major, first, third, second thing. And as always, if you need to practice annual physicals and please go back to the code sections of this course. The strumming pattern that we'll be using is pattern number four, which goes 1234. In other words, down, down, down, down. Now let's go through the song. We started a major and we go 12.34, again, 1,234.1, 2.34, and change to E major one. And when you change from a to E, always made sure that the second and the third finger keep touching each other. And that make the same small movements in the same direction. Again, the change from a major, E major. So we are in the fourth measure now, 1234. And second light back to a 12.313, 12.3. And this measure, we have two chords at, we change on the three, we have 12 amps and then change to E three. And back 2a12, 34.1, third line, and we change to D major. And when we change from a to D, make sure that your third finger keeps touching the string. And we slide it from the second to the third fret. So this is the smallest possible movement that we can weight that we can make. A major D major. Third line again, 123,412.3. M's back to a slide. The third finger, 1,234.1, 234. And last line, 1,234.1, 234. And now I get the one to change 34 and then a 12.3. And as you already know, I like finishing songs on the downstroke. And in this case, I chose to finish the song of the third beat. In the last measure, I don't play the full strumming pattern, but I finished on the 312.3 and hear the song would be over. In the next video, I have a play along for you that you can use to practice this code changes and looking forward to seeing you there. Bye. 39. Oh Susannah - Playalong: 1, 2 and 3. 4, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1 3 1 2 and 3. 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 1. Screen. 40. Oh Susannah - Tips on Singing: In this lesson, I would like to give you some tips on seeing. The first important thing as always, is to find our starting note, the first note that we're going to see. And we can do this by playing the a major chord orbit plane, the open fifth string in this case, which is the nodes eight, I, I come from, and so on. So this is our starting node. Then we have to know that this song, we have a so-called upbeat. And this means that we don't stop playing the guitar right away. But we stopped on the word calm. And so we start by singing i, i. And then other goods come. We stop the strumming pattern. So that's the second important thing. Now let's have a look at all the code changes. You know that I like underlining the words and syllables where you have to change your course. This will make it a lot easier. And I've done this for you in one of your PDF documents. So let me guide you through the whole song. So we stopped giving open string number five, nodes a. I, from my banjo, my knee, we go to E. So that's quite easy to remember. The right Go on, go, from going, we go back to MHA, four on four. We go to E Major floor to say, and I'll see we come back to a major 0. The 0 from 0, Susannah, we go to D major grooves on loans, a major loan to RI, for me, we go to E. So easy to remember again. For I'm going again ongoing. We have the code change to a major, go in to my banjo, change to eat on my knee. We have the last change back to a major. So this was our lesson on how to play owes the center. I hope you enjoyed it and I'm looking forward to seeing you soon again. 41. Strumming Pattern 6: Strumming pattern number six is in a three-quarter measure. And it sounds like this. Down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down. Now, when account what a play. It's 12 312-312-3123. So by now, this should actually be pretty easy for you. As this pattern only consists of coordinates. We only have one challenge exercise this time. And this challenge exercise is to count eight plus y playing the pattern 1 and 2 and 3, and 1 and 2 and 3 and 1 and 2, and 3 and 1 and 2 and 3. And see you in the next lesson. Bye bye. 42. Strumming Pattern 7: In this lesson, I'll show you how to play strumming pattern number seven. It only consists of a floats. And it sounds like this. 1 and 2 and 3, and 1 and 2 and 3 and 1, 2, 3, 1, 2 and 3. Down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down. And as I mentioned before, the pattern only consists of eight nodes. So we have only one challenge exercise now, and this is to count coordinates while playing the pattern 12 312-312-3123. So have fun practicing and see you in the next lesson. 43. Strumming Pattern 8 : In this lesson, I'll show you how to play strumming pattern. Number eight. It sounds like that. Down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down. Or if I count what I play. 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3 and 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3. And now we can try to challenge exercises again. First of all, I count two quarter notes while playing the pattern. 12 312-312-3123. And now I count eighth notes while playing the pattern 1 and 2 and 3 and 1 and 2 and 3, 1 and 2 and 3 and 1 and 2 and 3, 1 and 2 and 3. And if you want to, you can also try out to play this pattern and use one of the quotes that you've recently learned. So e.g. I. Take a minor, have fun practicing and as you soon again. 44. Strumming Pattern 9 : In this lesson, I'll show you how to play strumming pattern number nine. Let's get straight into it. 1, 2 and 3, and 1, 2 and 3. 1, 2 and 3 and 1, 2 and 3. Down, down, up, down, down, down, down, down, down, up, down, up, down, down, up, down, up. Let's get straight into our challenge exercises. So first of all, I count quarter notes while playing the pattern. 12 312-312-3123. Now I count eighth notes while playing the pattern 1, 2 and 3, 1 and 2 and 3, 1, 2 and 3 and 1 and 2 and 3. Have fun practicing edits you soon again. 45. Strumming Pattern 10 : In this lesson, I'll show you how to play pattern number ten. Let me play it for you. Down, down, up, down, down, down, up, up, down, down, down, down. And if I count what I play. 12.31, 2 312-312-3123. Now let's get into our challenge exercises. So first of all, I count coordinates, y plane, the pattern 12, 312-312-3123. And now I count eighth nodes, 1 and 2 and 3, and 1 and 2 and 3 and 1, 2 and 3 and 1 and 2 and 3. If you want to, you can also try out to play this pattern. And for your left hand, take one of the code changing exercises that we've learned so far. So e.g. the change from E minor to D major. So let's go through it. I start with E minor, 1,231,231.3. Enjoy your practice and see you soon again. 46. SongHappy Birthday - Demo: Happy but happy day. Have a nice day. 47. Happy Birthday - Chords & Strumming: To play happy birthday, I use strumming pattern number nine. But if you want to, you can also use any other strumming pattern that is written in a three-four times signature. So that's an important thing to look for. Happy Birthday does have three beats per measure. The course that we're using, our G major, C major, and D7. I've already done a lesson previously on how to practice this three chord progression. So just refresh it again if you want to. Now let's go through the song with that in G major. And we go along 2.3 and then two measures of D7, 12.3 and 123, and back to G major 12.3. Now we have the second line, G major, C major 1.3. And now we have actually two codes within one measure. And we play them the following way. We start with G major and replay them, and then quickly change to D7 and go back to G-Major. So let me just do this measure again. We have 12.3. So quick change to D7, 123. And in the last measure, as always, I think you should finish with the down. So you can go like 123. Oh, like I need to make the end a little bit softer. I go three. So just take my thumb and stroma strings. You can choose what you wanna do. But anyway, I would finish with the down. So don't continue this trunk movement in the last measure. Right? So in the next lesson, I have playbook for you. After you've practiced the chord progression of happy birthday, you can jam along with it. See you there. 48. Happy Birthday - Playalong: 123-12-3412, 3,123.13. 49. Happy Birthday - Tips on Singing: Now I would like to give you some tips on singing and playing the guitar the same time. And as usual, I would suggest to be really clear about where the core changes actually take place. So just mark the words where you have to play a new code in your lyrics. And I've actually done this for you in one of your PDF documents. In the special case about Happy Birthday is that we don't start playing a chord on the first two notes. The first two notes. So the word happy is sung without any quotes. We start with is the d. So you see that in the open D string, you can play this. And then we go happy. And the G major chord comes in on the word birthday. Happy. So that's an important thing about this song. We don't stop playing the chord right at the beginning. We start seeing first and then we start to play the chord. So let's go through this. We play the first note, happy. And on the word you, we change to D7. Happy birthday to you. On the next, you will change back to G major. So let me do the whole first-line for you. We start by playing the open D string, which is our firstNode. Happy, happy. Then we stay in the j hat, j. So the change to C Major comes on. But in this case Jacob or whatever, then you're going to see. So when you're seeing the name of the person you are seeing happy birthday for, you change to C major, happy day, DHA. And then we continue. The next change comes again on the word birthday, happy. Then shortchange to D7 on the BOT-2. On two we go to D7 and what we're seeing there, we go straight back into G major. So let's just do the second line again, because we have quite a lot of changes there. Happy birthday to you. So have fun practicing and I think the next birthday party can't come see you soon again in a new lesson. Bye. 50. Class Project: Now it's time to introduce the class project. The project of this class will be to choose one of the songs that you've learned in this class and to record yourself playing. And if you want to also singing that song, you can either do an audio recording or a video recording that's up to you and please upload the recording to the platform. Those of you who would submit the recording will get a personalized individual feedback from me. And I will give you some tips on what it can do to make it the top lane even better. So I hope you enjoyed making the project and I'm looking forward to seeing your great practice results. 51. Conclusion: Congratulations for having completed this class. I really hope that I was able to teach you the basics of guitar playing and also hope that you enjoyed the class. If you did them, please make sure to leave a review on this class because this is very important for the Skillshare Algorithm, because only glasses with a certain amount of engagement will remain on the platform. So if you want to make sure to have constant access to the video content of this class. Again, make sure to leave a review. This will help me and of course you as well. Now I would like to wish you happy playing, happy practicing, lots of fun with the guitar. And I would also like to get in touch with you. Maybe we can connect through my website, through social media. Or maybe we would see each other soon again in one of my other classes here on Skillshare, again, enjoy playing the guitar and I'm looking forward to seeing you soon again. Goodbye.