How to Play Guitar: A Beginner's Guide (2022)

1. 1. Intro: Hello. Are you looking to learn beginner's guitar? Well, you've come to the right place. I'm Miles halter, your chief guitar instructor. In this course, we're going to give you a step-by-step Roadmap that takes you from beginner to whatever is after beginner, intermediate, advanced, wherever you want to call it, either way, you'll be on the path to playing guitar like the boss that you are in the course. We're going to lay it all out for you. We're gonna learn chords. We're going to learn how to play iconic guitar risk. We're going to learn about picking technique. We're going to learn about exercises. And we're going to learn about chord progressions, some basic music theory. And most of all, we're going to have some fricking fun. Jump right into my course today and start learning guitar. Let's do this. 2. 1A. Holding The Guitar: Okay, so now we're going to talk about holding the guitar and holding the guitar. Well, there are several ways to hold it too in particular, and they're all governed by the same principle, which is basically to relax and follow the natural curves of your body. So here's your folk or standard position for holding your guitar, which is just on your right leg, on your upper thigh. Then Another popular and common position is the class composition, which is further up on your thigh, on your left leg. And then naturally you have the standing position which people adjust their straps to the point where their left and right hands are comfortable when they're in the standing positions. Try them all out and see what works best for you. Throughout the course, we're going to be using your folk slash traditional holding position. So let's move on. 3. 1B. Parts of The Guitar: So now we're gonna learn the parts of the guitar, which is essential because throughout the course I'll be talking about are referring to a lot of these parts of the guitar. And just in general, it's useful to know each individual part of the guitar for the sake of communication and understanding when you're going through a book or through a lesson with a private instructor or working with other musicians. So let's go ahead and talk about these parts. So obviously, here we have the guitar tuners where you'll tune. And then this is the headstock that holds the tuners. And there's also host to the nut of the guitar, which is of course, where the strings neat tuner, well, strings to make the headstock really. Then I've met who we have the fretboard slash fingerboard, and then we have the frets themselves, which are these metal inlays. And here's the thing, when we're talking about frets were technically referring to before a fresh. So this would be like fret number one. We have to frets and then we also have the neck of the guitar. Then we have the sound hole, and we have the body of the guitar. And we have the bridge on the guitar. And then last but not least, some people will have a pink guard right here. But of course, evidently this guitar does not. Then we also have the strings, but every guitar might have different parts, but these are the main parts of the guitar. And a little tip for threat memorization is on the top of your guitar. You may have fret markers, and these usually represent the odd frets on the guitar, 3579 until you get 12, which obviously is when the notes restart. Alright, so that is all of the different parts of the guitar. So let's move on. 4. 1C Holding a Guitar Pick: So now we're going to talk about the basics of holding a guitar pick. Now there's no wrong or right way to hold a guitar pick. But we're gonna go for a standard D shape holding position with our right hand. We're gonna take our thumb and we're gonna put our picked in front of the thumb to a point where it creates a 90 degree angle. From the point of the pick to the top of the thumb, you'll see that 90 degree angle. But then we're gonna take our index finger. We're going to curve it to the point where we're holding the pic behind this first joint of our index finger and pressing it up against our thumb. Then you're good to go. The reason we call this the D-shaped is it creates this capital D right here. So as for the rest of your fingers can rest on the fretboard or in a relaxed curl. But you don't want to think too hard about your middle ring and pinky fingers, just let them relax. Whatever is relaxing for your right hand is going to be the most efficient playing style for you. So now that we've looked at how to hold a pic, Let's move on. 5. 1D. Tuning The Guitar: It's time to talk about tuning. The guitar. Tuning is pretty simple. And on the guitar we're tuning. And there are a wide variety of ways to remember these note names. Normally you could do elephants make doughnuts. That elephants and other popular saying is Maddie, down to my head by Eddie. So you can just hop on Google and search for ways to remember. But those little ways that I've taught my students to remember when you're tuning, you're usually just want to pick up a guitar tuner. Or if you can't find a guitar tuner or you don't want to buy a guitar tuner, get an application on your phone. Boss has a tuning app and offender. You have fender kin. And when you're tuning, your really just going to turn the tuning pegs back and forth left and right. And you don't want to tune too fast. You want to turn the tuning pegs slowly. If you go high too fast, you can break a string and you don't want to break a strength, especially if you're just starting out and you're not used to changing the strings yet. Those are some of the basics of tuning. So get yourself a guitar tuner and tune your guitar. And you don't want to go through the rest of the course without being in tune because that will throw off your ear and you don't want to mess up your ear. You want your ear to learn the sounds of different notes that will help you with long-term musical memory. And it'll help you when you're in a band type situation working with other artists, other musicians. Let's move on to the next lesson. 6. 1E. Left Hand Position: Alright, so now we're gonna be talking about the left-hand position for the guitar. We're going to start by placing our thumb behind the neck. And we're going to treat our hand as if there's an imaginary golf ball in there. So we're going to leave our hand open and we're gonna have a slight curvature for the wrist. And then wherever we fret our notes, we're gonna use our fingertips. You don't want to use the pads of your fingers, that's the front. You want to use, fingertips. And then some tips for fretting notes are, well, first of all, you want to be right behind a friend. You see how right there my fingers are right behind the fret. Then you don't want to be on top of a fret. Getting on top of a fret. You're gonna get a very muted damp sound. And we don't want to have a muted damps him. And another tip for left hands. Well, it's not really a tip, but it's something that you should know our positions normally when we refer to positions, That's wherever we're starting. So for example, first fret would be first position. First position would usually entail the first four notes. Alright? So each individual position will usually until those four notes as an index, middle ring, and pinky, which brings us to our finger numbers and our left hand fingers are index, middle, ring, and pinky fourth. So you first, second, third, fourth fingers. And that's normally how I'll refer to them throughout the courses. Finger at 1234. To recap, fret behind the notes and leave your hand open as if there's an imaginary golf ball there. And remember that positions really just tell you what frightened number we're starting at. Okay, let's move on to the next lesson. 7. 2A. Musical Alphabet: All right, so let's talk about the musical alphabet and the notes on the fretboard. Through music. Throughout music and throughout your guitar playing Journey, you're gonna be using the musical alphabet. And you're going to be using this to read music and to communicate with other musicians and to understand what type of coords your claim. Let's talk about this musical alphabet now. Now what is it? Well, it's really a series of natural notes, H, G, and that's it. Just the first seven letters of the alphabet, a, B, C, D, E, F, G. This series of seven natural notes repeat over and over, and it can go as deep as you want. I can go as high as you want. Alright, now, let's talk about half-steps and whole-steps. So you're half step is, well, your shortest distance. 22 notes. So that'd be like E to F or B2C. Just a single friend. A single threat would be a half-step. In the musical alphabet, a, B, C, D, E, F, G. There are only two notes that don't have sharps or flats, and that's your E to F and your B to C. Those are the only two notes that are the only two natural notes that are a half-step apart. Now, to get from, let's, well, any other natural note to another natural mouth, there's gonna be no in-between. And if you're like, let's say we're going to this G on the third fret low, E to a on the fifth fret low E. That's going to be a whole step. And in between we have this fourth fret here, which is a G-sharp. If we're ascending for going up the neck, or if we're descending, be an, a flat. But we'll cover that a lot more later in the course. So to recap, we've got half and whole-steps. A half-step is the shortest distance from one node to the next, and a whole step is just a two fret intervals so that the fifth fret, there's two frets in-between. Then the musical alphabet is a, b, c, d, e, f, g. And those are natural notes and then repeat over and over again. And the only two notes that don't have a sharp or B to C and E to F. And like I say, you'll understand that a lot more as well. We move through the course and three-year guitar playing journey. So let's move on to our next video. 8. 2B. Common Guitar Terms: All right, so now let's talk about some basic and common guitar terms. The first term we're gonna talk about is a guitar riff. Guitar riff is basically the rhythmic portion of your son. And this usually repeats itself over and over. And it can appear really anywhere gonna be in the bridge, the verse, the chorus, you name it, it repeats itself. It's probably a riff. And if it holds down beat, then it's probably a riff. And then we have guitar licks. Guitar legs are usually more melodic and usually stand alone. It raises, and they usually will come in a guitar solo or in little chunks between our guitar riffs. Now let's move on to guitar picking technique. So we're gonna be talking a lot about down-strokes and upstrokes in the course. And the downstroke is simply just picking. And then upstroke is picking up underneath the string. Downstroke is down on the screen, upstroke. Then when we're alternate picking, we're alternating between downstrokes, upstrokes, down, up, down, up, down, up, down. Plain and simple. That's really how picking technique works. Right there I was alternate picking. Last but not least, we're gonna be talking about guitar tablature. And guitar tablature is what we use to read guitar music. And I'm gonna be using tablature throughout the examples. And during our first example, I'll go more in depth onto how tabs work and what they are, and what some of the fundamentals are with tabs and what some of the symbols mean, and how they work. So let's move on to our next lesson. 9. 2C. Green Onions: Okay, so now that we've learned some guitar terms, we're gonna hop right into an exercise where you're gonna be able to apply rhythm and you're gonna learn how to use some tablature. What we're gonna do is we're gonna play this song. It's really basic song called The Green Onions. For green onions, we're just going to stick to the Loewy and we're just going to be using our index and ring finger, and we're just going to be using quarter notes. And quarter notes occupy a single-space in a beat. So if we go 1234, each time I counted, that was a quarter note, is occupying one space. Be our songs just going to be in 404, which just means we have four quarter notes per measure. Let's dive right into it. We're gonna be starting on this low E, and we're just going to be using downstrokes with our right hand. And when you pick, you don't want your pick to fly away from the guitar. You want your pick to stay close to the string that it's gonna keep on picking. We're just gonna stay close to this E string. You don't want it to fly forward, you don't want to fly down. You just want really light, relaxed pick structs. Now you're going to see the tablature. If you look at the tab which are there, there are six lines. And the way that that works is the bottom line is our low. Then it goes E, a, D, G, B, E. We've got six lines on there. And the numbers on there represent friends. So if you have a 0, that means print 0. If you have a three, It's friend number three. If you have a five, it's FREC number five. Like I said, these are just quarter notes and they're going to ring out. So that means that you don't have to worry about muting or resting. Okay, so let's go into 1234. What we're doing there is we're picking the open stream twice. Then we're putting our index finger on the third fret of our Loewy. And then we're putting our ring finger on that fifth fret logi. Remember to use your fingertips here and keep your left hand relaxed. And remember, you wanted to feel like there's an imaginary golf ball in the palm of your hand. All right, so let's go into it again. That is green onions. Now, let's move on to our next exercise. 10. 2D. Blues Guitar Exercise: Okay students, so now we're gonna be learning a blues guitar exercise. And this exercise is going to use the low E, the a string, and the D string. And what's really great about this exercise is we get to use the same thing occurring on the left hand for both sections of the exercise. On the E and a string, we're gonna be using the same left-hand finger as we use for the a and D string. Throughout the song, we're just going to use consistent quarter notes and downstrokes. So let's hop right into it. We're gonna start by picking the low E. Then we're gonna use our ring finger to pick that fourth fret, the buoy, and then our index finger to pick the second fret. Ring finger, pick that fourth fret. And our pinky pick the fifth Friday, and then ring, pick the fourth fret. Then indexed pick the second fret, then back to that fourth fret on the E. Now we're going to use the exact same thing for the next set of eight nodes. Ring, ring, ring. Fourth fret with our ring finger. What's put it all together now? Awesome. So hopefully you got that. And let's move on to our next exercise. 11. 2E. Canon in D: Okay, so for this exercise, we're going to be playing a simplified version of Pachelbel's Canon in D. For Canon in D, We're gonna start off with half notes, and then we're going to move our way into quarter notes using the exact same notes were using before. So if you don't know what a half note is, a half now occupies two quarter notes spaces. So 1234. Notice how each of those numbers occupied two individual beads. And so that's how we're gonna be starting off the sun. Remember, we're just going to use downstrokes and we're gonna be starting at our fifth fret a. So let's get into it. 1234123412341234123444113. Remember to hold out those notes for their full length. And also, like I say, just remember to use downstrokes and keep your right and left hands relaxed. And if you need to go a slower tempo, if you need to play this song slower, then don't worry about it. For a more in-depth explanation. Let's look at the left-hand. So we're starting off with that fifth fret with our index finger. Then going to the fifth fret, low E with our index finger. And then we're gonna do the same thing, but with the second fret, a and C using our index finger again. And then we'll move on to our third fret low E. And then that'll be using our index finger and we'll use our ring finger. A Friday, our index finger to apply that third Fred low, E, and our ring finger to play that fifth fret of our loci. So we've got index, index, index, index, index, index. Hopefully you got that and let's move on to the next song. 12. 2F. Crazy Train Intro: Okay, so now we're going to be playing the crazy train intro riff. Let's hop right into it. Once again, we're just on the E and the low E and the a string, and we're just using downstrokes and left hand is going to be a piece of cake. So what we're doing here is we're going to start off with just to pick strokes, to downstrokes on that second fret of our low E with our index finger. Then we're going to pick that fourth fret of the a string with our ring finger. And then go back to that second fret of the E string with our index finger. Okay, then we're gonna pinky on our fifth fret, a, back to our low E on the second fret, back to our ring finger on fourth Friday. Back to our index finger on that second fret, Louis. Alright. Now we have the second part of the riff. Alright, so what we're doing there is we're gonna pick the second fret and then pick the open strings. And then we're going to pick the fourth fret of our low E with our ring finger. And then pick the open a. And then we're going to pick the second fret again. Back to our ring finger on that fourth fret, low E, then an open Loewy. Altogether, we have more time. And now you've got the crazy train intro riff down. Let's move on to our next lesson. 13. 3A. Open Chords: All right, Welcome to your major chords introduction. We're gonna be working with some open string major chords. And the first thing we're going to talk about are the five major chords that we're gonna be focusing on, which are C, a, G, E, N, D. And now that we're learning these chords, we have to understand a few things and one of the most important things to understand how to read chord diagrams. So what you'll see here is a chord diagram. With a chord diagram, you read it left to right. And from the left to the right, you have E, a, D, G, B, and E. Then if you look at the diagram itself, the circles represent what threat you are playing on that particular string. And then the number inside of that circle is telling you which finger, 123 or four is being used on that string. For example, for RC chord diagram, we have our third finger on that third fret of the a string. Then we have our middle finger number two on our second fret of our D string. Then we have an open G, which if you see an open chord, that means there'll be a little, oh, where, where your string name is. Does that make sense? And then if there's an x, that means you don't buy that stream. We have third fret. Second fret of the G, with our first finger, we'll put it at first fret of our B string. No plant open high E. Alright, and tips for your C chord is first of all, remember to relax that left hand. The second thing to remember is to really focus on using these fingertips. Now that we've played our C chord, let's try a G chord. For our G chord, we're gonna take our pinky and we're gonna put it on that third fret high E. And then we're going to bring our middle finger to the second fret of our a string, and then our third finger to that third fret of our low E. And we'll have three open strings, open D, G, and B. We've got now what's learned, a, a is going to use our middle finger, our second finger, third finger and our fourth finger. Avid. Open it. Then we'll put our middle finger on that second fret. D. Ring finger on the second fret, G are pinky on the second fret, B will have an open height. That's outward a major chord. And now we'll play an E major. E has an open low E, and we have our middle finger, our second finger on the second fret of the a string. Ring finger, your third finger on the second fret of the D string. Then you'll have your first finger on the first fret G. Then you have an open be helping height. All right, and last but not least, we have our open D chord. Open D looks like this. It's a little triangle shape. We're going to have an open D string. We'll have our first finger on that second fret, G, our ring finger on that third fret B. And our middle finger on that second fret. First finger on the second fret, third finger on the third fret, second finger on the second fret. So to recap, we have our z cord are G chord, a chord are E chord, and our D chord. Now that you've got your introduction to major chords, Let's move on to our next portion of the course. 14. 3B. Fretting Exercise: Okay, so now we're going to learn a four-step fretting exercise that will help you remember and practice chord shapes with your left hand. And the chord we're going to start with today is our C chord. What we're gonna do here is we're going to set our chord on there. We're going to have press the court, then put it back into the set position number least an eighth of an inch away from the prep or fret board. That's set. Press release. And you're just going to set the court shape on the strings lightly. And then you'll push down all the fingers simultaneously and strong. Then set again, and then release just a bit of ways away from the fretboard. So set, set, release, set, set, release, and try it with another chord. Let's try it with the a chord. So we're going to set our fingering. We're gonna press release. And release. Okay, so try that with all five-year caged chord C, a, D, E, and D. Let's move on to our next lesson. 15. 3C. First Chord Progression: Okay, Now we're gonna move on to your first chord progression, and we're gonna talk about how to transition from one chord to the next and strumming. And what chord progressions are. When it comes to strumming? Well, what is storming? Storming is simply just playing through all the strings simultaneously in a single motion. This could be with down-strokes or upstrokes. There you go. That's strumming. Now for our chord progression, chord progressions are generally taken from scales. And they are, well, of course there are chords and they usually set up the rhythm for the song. For example, the chord progression we're going to be using here is C. Chord progressions usually repeat themselves over and over again. This is a 145 chord progression, but we'll talk more about why the chord progression is called a 145 later in the course. For now, let's just practice the progression and talk about how to swap, sorry, switch from one chord to the next. We're going to start with our G chord. We're just going to hold that cored out for four counts, 1234. And then we're gonna go to our C chord, 1234. Then we're gonna go to our D chord, 234. So altogether we have 234234234234. So the first tip for transitioning is to get used to and practice moving multiple fingers at the same time. That just comes with practice and time. And the second thing, the second tip for transitioning is to look for common fingerings in courts and look what you can do to set yourself up for success with your transition. So for example, the G to C chord. The G chord and the C chord both used the ring and middle fingers. And when you go from G to C, You can just move the ring and middle fingers down from the E-N-A. Two the a and D. The way we can set ourselves up for success is having our index finger ready to go. When we get to that C chord. See how my index finger is just sitting there waiting to play that first fret of our B string. That's how we do G to C now for C to D. So when we go to part d, we can leave our ring and middle fingers, third, second fingers in the same position, and we just move them to the high strings that we take our index finger, put it on that second fret. G. Of course back to gene. We just take our rain and middle fingers and move them up to the low strings and put our pinky back on that third fret of our IEEE. The last tip, but the most important one is going forward with practice. When you're practicing your chord progressions, don't pause between the transition. That way you'll force yourself to start transitioning. If it sounds bad at first. Just to remember, try and force yourself. You'll be forcing that chord shape. You'll be forcing your left hand to move. Forced the transition, and stay on time. Okay, Let's move on to our next lesson. 16. 3D. Next Chord Progression: Okay, So now we're gonna learn a chord progression that takes advantage of some of the other open chords we learned earlier, the a and E courts and our progression here is going to be a D cell. Let's hear what that sounds like. And each chord is just gonna be a whole note, which means they're held out for four counts. Ready? One, 234123412341234. That's 234234234234. Now, let us talk about some tips for transitioning from chord to chord. With our a to d. A to D is honestly helper transition you can nail, but I would start by getting down the transition to where the ring and middle fingers are meant to be placed. That's because those fingers are already in use. Your index finger. We'll just count naturally as you practice the transition, you can take your four-step threatening exercise from earlier and you can apply it to these chord transitions. You can set and apply pressure, set and apply pressure from a to D, D to E. One thing to remember what D to E is. First of all, you'll start by moving your index finger down to that first fret G. Then you'll place your middle and ring fingers in on the frets that they're meant to be on. The second fret. Second fret D. Work on sliding that index finger to that first red G, and then placing your middle and ring fingers. And then E major to a is a really simple transition because you just take your middle and ring fingers and move them down. One power of strengths from a and D to D and G. And then place your pinky back on that second fret. All right, so now you try it. Ready? All counters in 1234234234234234. Okay. Awesome. And remember when it comes to transitioning, you don't want to pause between transitions. I mean, of course you want to get your chord shapes down as best as you can. But don't pause. The quicker that you work on transitioning and getting out of those pauses, the faster you'll be able to do those transitions effectively. All right, let's move on to our next lesson. 17. 3E. Strumming Patterns: Okay, it's time to talk about strumming patterns. This will help to spice up your chord progressions. When you're practicing your strumming patterns, I want you to say the right hand motions out loud so if you're going down, so he did not going up, say, OK. So we're gonna start with one of the most popular chord progression, sorry, popular strumming patterns ever down, down, up, Up, down. We're just going to use our GCD progression and we're gonna take it really slowly. I want you to say it out loud with me and we'll just start by practicing it on a G chord. So getting your GI position. And let's practice our strumming pattern. 1234 down. Okay, great. Now let's try a different strumming pattern. We're going to go down, down, up, up, down. And now you see what we did there. We just removed that last up. Okay, now let's try another one. Let's try it down, down, up, down, down, down, up, down. Okay, now let's apply these to a full progression. So we're gonna start with our first progression, down, down, up, Up, down, up, sorry, our first pattern. We're gonna go, we're gonna do that twice on each chord and we're going to take it really slowly. Remember g, c, d, Let's do it. Ready and up. Good. Now let's take our third strumming pattern, apply it to that same chord progression. One, two, ready, go. Alright, perfect. So there's a basic introduction to some strumming patterns. Now, strumming patterns can also be formed by just taking quarter notes and choosing a portion of the beat of the 4 fourth beat to where you want to put each individual downstroke. So for example, we can put it on the one, the three and the 41231 tape down. All right, perfect. Let's move on to the next lesson. 18. 3F. Barre Chords: Okay, So it wouldn't be a beginner's guitar lesson without talking about the dreaded bar chord. So we're going to make it simple and easy for you. And the bar chord that we're gonna work with is the most common one, the F chord. For the F chord we're going to barring using our index finger, the first fret of the B and the E. We're gonna take our middle finger and our ring finger, and we're going to put our middle finger on that second. And our third finger on the third fret D. When you're practicing these bars, you're gonna practice, first of all, one string at a time. Let's talk about some tips for borrowing because barring can be really tough for beginners. So first of all, try practicing with many bars as in, yeah, Just like a two string bar. And then second of all, try practicing further away from the nut because there's a lot of tension down here by the notes. So try practicing like the fifth fret. And another point is use leverage from in your arm. So if you take your elbow and you pushed in towards your body, that pushes your left hand, index finger, or wherever finger you're using bar more into the friends are essentially it takes you from using the pads of your fingers tomorrow of using the bony decide on your finger. And that's kinda what you want to get to, is instead of just going flat onto those strings, try using the bony. So I didn't think. Another thing is you just need to be patient and practiced bar chords. They come with time. And when it comes to practicing your F chord, especially once you start to expand the F chord. You want to be picky and efficient, as in. You only want to be focusing on the strings that actually need to be barred. For example, are a G strings. We have a full F chord bar, are not. They don't have to be barred with our index maker. Your index finger just focuses on the loci, B stream and the high E string. I was playing that wrong, That's my bad. So anyways, be picky and efficient. Use leverage and the bony part of your finger and practice many bars and last but not least, be patient and have fun with learning, will be using the F coordinates and progressions later in the course. But yeah, practice it on its own as well. Remember, practice one string at a time to make sure that it sounds good. Let's move on. 19. 3G. Chord Progression Basics: Okay, now I'm going to introduce you to a little bit more of the theoretical side of how chord progressions work. Really chord progressions come from a scale. Alright, so let's look at a scale. We have a scale. In this case we have RC scale, C, D, E, F, G, a, B. When we create our chords, they're stacked in thirds or essentially every other number. So this the scale we have C, E, and G, that's going to create our C pk or because of the intervallic structure from one node to the next, we have our root of our major third fifth, and that creates a C. And then we do that for each individual node in our CTE. So we go to our next note, which is D, and we have D, F, and a. And that will create our D minor chord. And then we go to E, and we have E, G, and B and that grades E minor. And then we go to our F, and then we have F, a, and C, and that creates our F major. And then we have G, where we have G, B, and D. And that creates G major. We have a, where we have a, C and E to create a minor. And last but not least, we have B, B, D, and F to create the minor seven flat five chord. Actually that's a B diminished triad. But anyways, that's just a brief lesson on how these chords are built, but the progressions. So after you build your chords in your scale, each chord basically is assigned a Roman numeral. Let's say, well, okay, So for our major chords, we have big Roman numerals and our major chords are first fourth, fifth chords in our scale, NRC scale. Then minor chords are second, third, sixth chords. And those are used, are, those are displayed using small Roman numerals. So you can see that here. And from there, you can just create progressions. There are so many popular progressions. There's the 145, the 1645, the 1, sixth to five, the 251. Those are all popular progressions. And you can just take chords from your scale and then import them all it together. Like wherever you like. If you want to play 136, you can do that. It's up to you, is totally up to you. So anyways, there's a brief little lesson on chord progressions. So put together some progressions in the C scale and try them out. And I would definitely suggest trying a 1625145 and start with those. And let's move on to the next lesson. 20. 4A. Intro to Power Chords: Okay, Now let's introduce you to power courts. Power chords are the building blocks for really rock and roll guitar and any music that incorporates rock elements. Like even country guitar, uses a lot of power chords. But anyways, let's talk about what they are, how they work. So you can have an open power cord, or you can have a power chord using your index and ring fingers. Or you throw the octave in there as well. What an octave is. An octave is where you take OneNote, you find the next highest pitch, where you find the lowest pitch, an octave lower octave, higher octave, lower. G to G note. So anyways, let's learn some power chords. So power towards consist of a root note and a fifth. Now your room now is really just, well, it's the note that defines the name of your cord and then your fifth, that really defines a distance from one node to the next. Anyways, the distance of a theft would look like this. Here's our fifth. And don't worry too much about the integral names yet. But let's just get down some power cord. So this is a G power chord, and power ports are also called five chords as well. So this could also be called a G fine. Like I said, they just consist of two nodes, the root and the fifth. And let's try this. So we're gonna take our index finger and go to the third fret Loewy, take our ring finger and go to that fifth Friday. And then we're gonna play those together. Then if you want, you can keep holding that core and put your pinky on that fifth fret D. Power of work within. And then for an open power chord, we can just do an IPO Ford that'd be an open low E. Then our index finger on the second Friday, you'd get from that low E power to the headquarter. That's a brief introduction to power chords. Now let's move on to some guitar riffs that use some power chords. 21. 4B. Smells Like Teen Spirit: Okay, Let's try Smells Like Teen Spirit to Nirvana classic. The way we're going to start practicing this is worth just our index finger. We're going to get the drift down with our index finger. And we're just gonna be on the first fret of the low E and a, and the fourth fret of low E and a. So let's start by just playing each friends. So low fret, low E first thread, and then a string first threat. Then our low E fourth fret, string, fourth frame. Alright, now let's get the rhythm down. I'll play at once. There's our rhythm. And what we're doing is we're 123. Minute that and we play our second, no, sorry, our third note. And then at the four, we play our fourth note. So that's 1313. And if you can't get the rift down with the counting, then use your ear and attempt to play along to my rhythm. But I'm going to count out loud. And let's play this riff with one finger, 1234123234123434. Now, we're gonna try this using our power chord shape. To give it a go. Let's do it. 123413 for 123323. All right. Hopefully you got that. Remember, practice with one finger. Practice slowly. And if you can't get the rhythm down right away, don't worry about it. Let's move on to our next exercise. 22. 4C. Batman Theme: Okay, so for this next exercise, we're going to be playing a fun, but classic themes on the Batman theme. For this, we're gonna be doing a variation of our, a power cord to play that we're gonna take our middle finger and put it on that second fret D. Then to move through the song, we're gonna be going first fret D with our next mega. Have an open D and back to our first finger on the first fret D. We're just going to be playing two notes for each finger. And then we're going to repeat that. And finally, we'll end our board. Ready? Let's try it out. 1234341. Alright, now that you've got Batman theme down, let's move on to our next lesson. 23. 4D. Barracuda: Okay, so it's time to learn Barracuda by heart. Now, what's really great about Barracuda is it's going to introduce you to three awesome techniques. First of all, palm muting, second of all, galloping, and third of all harmonics. Let's try it out. What we're gonna do is we're gonna start by learning how to palm me. When you palm mute, take the side of your palm and you're going to gently slide it up on the bridge. And then you'll rest your palm of your hand. Right at the tail end of the string, where the string meets the bridge. Then pick that low E. And you want to be able to hear the E note, but you don't want it to be completely muted. That's how we're doing our mu. Then we're gonna do a gallop. Gallop is simply where we basically pick down, up, down. And a gallop sounds like this. There you go. That's it. And you just go the down, up, down, and then you have a pot. Down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down. Alright, so try galloping. Tried taking his slowly. Remember we're just going down, up, down. That's palm muting, and that's our gallop. Now, let's talk about the Barracuda, Rick, we're just going to start with an open note. And then we're going to play our gallop four times. Then we're going to play our power chord on the second fret of our E string. We're going to slide our power cord up to that third fret of our low E string. Slide. Sliding is, it just takes some practice, but you might want to practice one finger at a time. And we'll be talking about sliding more later in the course too. But you're basically just not going to take your fingers off the frets. You're just going to hold them down to you to hold your power board. Move it up, one fret. Then we're going to end with a harmonic. Now the way we create harmonics is by lightly playing over our fifth or seventh or 12 frets and we're playing over the friends themselves. The inlay. Then. So we just gently rest our fingers on there. Then you pick. That's how you get your harmonic. What we'll have is down gallop, yeah, Sorry. Gallup. Up to the third fret. And then harmonics. That's your Barracuda step. Remember that we play the open Gallup four times. Then second fret power cord slide up to the third fret power cord. Harmonics, and that's our Barracuda rip. Now of course this is a simplified Barracuda sheriff. The irregular Barracuda riff has more gallops, and on top of that, they have a whammy bar to make their harmonics a little more interesting. If you want to make your harmonic sound a little bit like hearts, harmonics in the song Barracuda. Go behind the NAT and press down gently on those strengths, but gently press on those. Anyways, now that you know Barracuda, let's move on to the next part of our course. 24. 5A. Minor Chords: Now we're going to talk about minor chords. Alright, so there's really only three minor chords that we're gonna talk about right now. And that's our a minor, E minor, D minor, because these are part of what we call the cage gourd, CAG, E and D. And there are three minor counterparts, a minor, D minor, and E minor. Let's talk about how they work and what they are. First of all, a minor. Minor is just like you're a major chord. You got to take away your pinky and then put your index finger on that first fret of RB screen. So we're going from the second front beat, first treppe. D minor, very similar. We have our D major shape. But instead of playing that second frame up our height h0, we're gonna play the first fret of our high ie by taking away our middle finger and putting it on the G string second fret, and taking our index finger and putting it on the first fret of our high E string. The last but not least, we have our E minor chord, which is just like E-major. By you remove your index finger. I suggest practicing minor. Minor. Because as you'll see, when you move from E minor, a minor, you can just take your middle and ring fingers, bring them down to the D and G strings. And your index finger, your first finger, that first heartbeat. Then when you got a D minor, you can take this shape down one set of three strings and move your ring finger up to that third fret, B, D minor. So practice those transitions and we're gonna put these chords to work. Let's go for it. 25. 5B. House of the Rising Sun: Okay, so now we're going to be learning in acoustic guitar staple. And that song is House of the Rising Sun by animals. Now this song is in 6834 and you can technically look at it either way. But basically, each measure has six camps, 12345 In 56123456. And we're gonna have a different chord for each measure. Let's talk about the chord progression. We're gonna have a minor, and then we'll have a minor once, and then it all repeat minor. Then we'll have a minor. Major. Minor. Alright, now, let's try that out. So what we're gonna be doing is for the a minor and the C, we're gonna have the right-hand pattern of a, G, B, E, B, and G. Alright, just gonna go down, down, down, down, up, up. When we transitioned from a minor to C. Remember that we just have to take our ring finger and move it up to that third fret. Now, we're gonna go to the D and F. Those have the same right-hand pattern as well, where we're just playing D, G, B, B, G. Okay, so we're gonna go down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down. Then we go from a minor back to a minor, say fat or we had earlier. We got to E major. Now we apply a pattern with E major twice and we're just going to go lower. Let's recap all that. We have. A minor, D minor. This is a simplified version of House of the Rising Sun. I'm making this as easy and hopefully as fun as possible for you to play this one. So anyways, once we move on to the next, well, the next part of the song, the chord progression or stays the same. We've got a minor. Then we have an a minor, E. Back to a mine. Aside from playing this one string slash one note at a time, you can also just play this with strumming. You could just do groups of 3123123. So anyways, if you have any questions about that song, of course, let me know. And outside of that, Let's move on to our next lesson. 26. 5C. Don't Fear the Reaper: Okay, Now we're going to play the basic riff from dealt feared the reaper. Let's check out what we're doing that we're gonna be playing this progression. It's going to sound like this. What we're doing there, because we've got this a power cord. You've got an open our middle finger on that second fret, and our ring finger on the second fret, G. Okay, We're going to play it. And then open G. Then we're gonna go to this G chord shape, but without our pinky. So we're just going to have our ring finger, our third finger on the third fret, low E, middle finger on that same for a. And then we'll just play down, down, down, down from IIT. And then we play this first fret. And it's gonna be a first power cord. So we're gonna have our first finger on that first fret, ring finger on that third Friday. Open D and back to the G shape. Altogether, we will have, let's try that out. 1234. You'll just end that. A power cord detect. Hopefully that wasn't too hard. Let's try out the next lesson. 27. 5D. Foxey Lady: Okay, so now we're going to be playing the iconic Jimi Hendrix tune, foxy waiting. Now this is a simplified version, but what makes this a semi difficult song for beginners is the bar on the fifth fret of the B and E using your pinky. However, this will help you out with developing your bar chords and developing use of your pinkie. So let's start. We're gonna take our index finger and go to that second fret of our low E. Once we're finished with this first riff, It's going to sound like this. What we're doing there is we're picking that second fret low E twice. Then picking fifth fret bar on the B and E with our pinky. Then we're going to take our middle finger to this fourth fret of the D string. We're gonna pick it twice. Pick the bar. We're gonna go back to our index finger on our second fret low E, again twice the bar. So altogether we have. And then from there play open a second fret, a fourth fret a, using our first third fingers. And then second fret. Fourth fret D, Using our first third finger. So altogether we will have this. So that's your simplified version of Jimi Hendrix's foxy lady. Let's move on to our next lesson. 28. 6A. Lead Techniques: Okay, so now let's talk about some basic lead techniques that we're gonna be applying the rest of the course. So we're gonna talk about slides, amaranth, poll offs, and vibrato. And we would talk about bending. But the thing is, if you're playing an acoustic guitar, it's really hard to bend. So we're gonna save bending for another time. Let's start with our slides. We're gonna be practicing all these examples on that second fret of the high E. And we'll be going, we'll be using the second, third fret of the high heat. So starting with the slide, we'll take our index finger and put it on the second fret high eat, and we'll pick up to that third frame. You might remember talking about slides earlier in the course. And the thing to remember with slides is you just have to keep pressure on whatever finger you're sliding with. Now let's talk about Hammurabi, which have a similar function, two slides, but a different sound. So if you're hammering on, you'll have two fingers and you'll be playing a lower note. Then you move to a higher note using either your middle ring or pinky finger. Usually, here will go from R2 second fret to our third friend, and we're just picking. And then we use the strength of our middle finger camera onto the third fret, high eat. Then we have our poll offs, which you'll want to anchor two fingers onto your highest strength. You'll put your middle finger on the third fret of high heat. Our index finger on that second fret, E, and we're just going to pick memory, use our middle finger. Hold down on the string and pull off to that second fret. Note on by Bravo. And we could do an entire course on vibrato because vibrato can be so diverse, but just the basics of vibrato. Well, you're going to be bending a note in and out of pitch. So if we go to this second fret G and we use our index finger, will just pick it and will bend in an atom down and up. We'll do the same thing on our third fret B as well. Try using your index and your middle fingers. That's our vibrio. That's the basics of vibrato. The very basics. And really with a bravo is used for, it's used to add character to your notes that you would normally just ring out. But you add character once you add that vibrato. Now we have an understanding of those techniques. Let's move on. 29. 6B. Picking Technique: Okay, So now we're gonna have a brief discussion about picking technique. And of course, throughout this course we've been using, well, really just downstrokes for the most part, but I've mentioned alternate picking maybe a couple of times. And what that is is simply just going down, up, down, up, down, up. For practicing that I wanted string. You can just pick an open string, just down, up, down, up, down, up, down on, try practicing it on your height h0. The trick with alternate taking is not going and not moving too far away from your string. Dollar tip with alternate picking and with any picking style is to focus on using your wrist. Then just rest your hand on the bridge. Practice it across multiple strings. That's alternate taking. And sometimes when guitar players alternate pick really fast. Sometimes that's called tremolo picking. You might hear it referred to as that. I don't use that term often. But a lot of other guitar players do. That's just really fast off. And then we have finger style and I'm not covering finger style guitar in this course, but finger style is simply just the use of right-hand finger. And I oftentimes take a hybrid approach, which means we're using our pick and our other fingers. And that's obviously for a more advanced course. But anyways, those are really the only picking terms that you have to worry about. Our fingers style and alternate picking. And we'll do some alternate picking in some upcoming exercises. Let's try it out. 30. 6C. Alternate Picking Exercise: Okay, so now let's talk about an alternate picking exercise that's been passed down for many generations of guitar players. So this exercise is what I call the 1234 exercises. And that's because we're using fingers 1234 and friends One 234. And we're gonna be alternate taking all these friends. And we're just going to go now down on the first fret with our first finger, second fret with our second finger on the third fret with our third finger, and the fourth friend with her pinky finger, our fourth finger. We've got a down, up, down, up, down, up, down. Then we're gonna do this across all six strings. Then once we get to the highest dream and we've played with all four notes, we're going to descend all four notes. We're gonna go into setting the rest of our strengths. So altogether, this is a great exercise for a few reasons. First of all, it will train your right hand in alternate picking. And second of all, it'll help with the development of your left hand Coordination. These fingers need to work together and you want to start exercising them right off the get-go. And something to keep in mind. A couple of things are first of all, make sure you're always alternate picking. Make sure you're always going down, up, down, up. And second of all, keep your left hand as close to the fret board as possible. And you can practice this at whatever tempo you want. I strongly suggest practicing this to a metronome so that you have a solid beat and you can work to get four notes in one single measure. Actually, well, you really want to work towards four notes in one beat. 123456. Even practice, well, if you're practicing with a metronome, It doesn't necessarily need to have a time signature. You practicing for 464, you don't like I said, you don't even really need a time signature, but anyways, there are some tips for this exercise. Try it out, and let's move on. 31. 6D. Eye of The Tiger: Okay, so now we're going to put our alternative picking to work by learning the iconic guitar riff, the eye of the tiger. We're gonna start with some alternate picked 16th notes. This third fret of the a string, and we'll be using our first finger to play that third fret a, then with our right hand while palm mute, RA string. And we're just gonna pick down, up, down, up. We're gonna be using the 16th notch, which just means that we're occupying four spaces in each individual B, that's 12 e end of 3D, end of Fourier NBA. You see how we occupied for spaces in those beats. That's a 16th know. So let's start. Palm muting will help you remember what were alternate picking. Want to make sure that when we go down and up, we're not escaping the string. We want to stay close to the string and we want to keep our right-hand relaxed and remember to pick with the wrist. Let's go for it. Okay, after you've completed that section, we're gonna go into this main riff here. What we're doing there is we're playing a power cord at this third fret. And that's just with a downstroke. And then we're gonna play a power chord at the, at the first fret. And then back to the third frame. Well, yeah, we go third fret a or the power cord and then third friend. The first friend, a, third fret a, and then we repeat that third fret, first fret, third fret. Then we go third fret, third fret, low, E, and forth. Fred Luddy, remember these are all power chords. Practice this to the song itself. That's gonna help you get that rhythm down. And if you can't get it down with power chords right away, you can always practice it with just your first finger. That's our main riff right there. Then we'll go into this next riff, which It's going to have us use a bar on this eighth fret of D and G strings. So we'll start by picking that third fret power cord on the a string. And then we'll pick the eighth fret of D and G using our index bar. Then we take our middle finger and put it on that eighth fret D, and our index finger on that seventh fret G. And then back to the bar. All the other we have. Then we're pre the index bar altogether. And then we'll play the bar. Go to the third fret low E, the power cord. Then the fourth fret altogether will have. Then we'll just end on that C power chord, the third fret power chord on our screen. Alright, that's Eye of the Tiger. Well that's a simplified version. Of course you can learn the rest of the song and your own. But let's move on to the next lesson. 32. 7A. Minor Pentatonic and Blues Scale: Okay, so now we're going to learn the minor pentatonic scale. In particular, we're gonna work with the a minor pentatonic scale. So we're gonna be playing that at our fifth fret of our low E. And it's going to sound like this. So what we're gonna do there is we're applying five and end with our first fourth fingers. 57 of the a, B and E strings with our first third fingers. Then 58 of our B and E strings using our first fourth fingers. Altogether, first fourth finger. And then the first third fingers, violence 7575. First fourth fingers by the day and five. Now, why is it called up a minor pentatonic scale? Well, it's called a pentatonic scale because there's only five notes in the scale. And really what a scale is, is it's a group of integrals organized from the root know up to the highest interval. And then they repeat themselves. For example, here we have a, c, d, G, and then it repeats, it ACT. And that's why it can be, well, it is super beneficial and essential to memorize your notes on the fretboard because it will help you with understanding scales. And of course, we haven't dived much into scales in this course. There are plenty of gray scale resources out there to get you started. One of the best ways to get started is just to practice your guitar scales. And now that you know you're a minor pentatonic, well, you don't have to just play in that one position. That's what's great, is these intervals which are just spaces between notes. They can be moved anywhere you want on the fretboard, you could go from the fifth fret to the seventh friends. And you can just keep it the same everywhere. Now that we've learned are minor pentatonic though, let's talk about the blues scale as well, which looks like this. In the blue scale, is basically your minor pentatonic with one more note thrown in there. One exponent we're gonna have is that sixth Friday. Then that eighth fret of the G string. The reason we're learning the blues scale is, like I say, it's similar to the minor pentatonic scale. You can use that blues note, that extra note that were thrown in there to add some tension, add some spice to your scale. That's what's possible with scales once you start to work with phrasing and learn some licks. And we're gonna be using the blues scale in an upcoming guitar riff. So anyways, let's move on in the course. 33. 7B. Sunshine of Your Love: Okay, Now that we've learned are minor pentatonic and blue scale, Let's practice a song that uses the sunshine of your love by cream. For this one, we're gonna be in D minor pentatonic down here at the 10th fret of our low E goes like this. That's just the basic riff right there. What we're going to be doing there is we're gonna play that 12th fret over D stream with our third finger. We're gonna play it twice. And then we're going to use our first finger to pick that 12th fret D, and then play that the 10th fret D in the platelet, 12th fret D, again with our ring finger, third finger. Then we're going to D said the blues scale, but using our third, second, first fingers on the a string, playing the 121110 friends. And then we'll play of the low E, 13 of the low E with our fourth finger, back to that 10th fret and low E. So we have, with that we're just descending the blues scale. You see there I'm adding a little bit of vibrato to that 13th fret. To do that, I'm just using my first, second, third fingers to help support my pinky in pushing the string down and up. Now we can play the chorus riff, which sounds like this. For that, it's gonna be really simple. We're just going to go to the fifth fret of our low E and play a power chord. We're gonna pick it once and have a small pause, and then we'll play it two more times with a down, up. And then we go to our third fret of our a's dream and our third fret of our low E using power chords and we'd just do downstrokes. So that's the basics of the sunshine of your love guitar riff. Now let's move on to the next lesson. 34. 8A. Best Tips and Practices: Okay, So now we're wrapping up. So to start off this wrap-up, I'm gonna leave you with some best tips and practices for guitar playing now and guitar playing moving forward. For our first two, it's one that I mentioned earlier in the course and that is watching the dots on that computer guitar, using those to help you remember where threats are and to help you navigate your fretboard. And tip number two is to watch your posture. If you have problems with posture, consult a physical therapist or your primary physician, but a bad posture to bring it back for wife, and that'll ruin your guitar playing for life. All right, The next tip, guitar maintenance. You can do your own maintenance. I mean, especially something like just changing guitar strings or even changing guitar parts like a nut or a tuning peg. But for some more advanced electronic maintenance console to a technician or a luthier. These guys are experts. If you're investing $1000 plus into an instrument, unless you really know what you're doing, don't mess with it, okay? All right, the next tip is always be in tune. First of all, that'll help you develop your ear. And second of all, no one likes it when you're out of tune. And the next tip, speaking of people not liking you in tune. Night, not like me being out of two is network and make friends. Morgan networking guitar. The more you learn and the more opportunities that will arrive that will arise. I have gotten, man, I've gotten at least three free guitars from networking. That's the power of networking. I've been in a lot of bands through networking. I've done so much because of my guitar network. The next tip is, don't buy a cheap guitar. Cheap guitar is going to limit you and keep doesn't necessarily mean inexpensive. Cheap means poorly built. There are some inexpensive guitars that actually aren't too bad. You just have to look in the right places. But usually, I try and buy a guitar that's at least $300. Alright, our next tip is practice regularly, consistently. You don't need to practice for crazy lengths in the beginning, you don't need to practice for one or two hours a day. If you just pick up your instrument for 20 minutes a day, that is key to getting good at your instrument. So, like I said, practice regularly. The next tip is work with a drummer to develop in inner sense of rhythm. And you don't have to just work with a drummer. You can also work with a metronome and listen to music and always tap your foot to a beat. And practice counting out loud. Okay, Next we have imitate and analyze the guitar players that you admire. So if you're imitating what they do and you start to imitate a lot of players. Eventually, you'll develop your own style and you'll learn what these other guys are doing. And you don't necessarily need to always be an innovator, especially when you're beginning. You want to be an emulator. You want to copy what everyone else is doing so that you can learn. And then last but not least, is learn music theory. Some guitar is to make out music theory to be this bad thing. And they saved that it limits creativity. There's a lot to music theory. Music theory really covers melody, harmony, and rhythm. If you don't understand any of those, those are your three pillars in music. You need to understand all three, especially for the sake of communication. You know how much it sucks to communicate with someone who doesn't know their music theory, it's not a good time. So those are your tips and we're going to leave you with those. And let's move on to the next lesson. 35. 8B. Guitar Resources: Okay guys, so now let's talk about some guitar resources. And for this resources lesson, I'm not going to give you only specific resources, but I'm going to give you some ideas for where you can go to learn some more. That's not just specific, but for example, Facebook groups and believe it or not, a lot of YouTube channels like Marty Schwartz, Justin Guitar for guitar solos. There's Chris Zubaida with learned that solo. There's Levi clay is a great guitar YouTube channel for instruction. Margaret Miller. I mean, so many amazing teachers on YouTube. So don't underestimate them. And a lot of them have premium courses out there on course marketplaces like true fire and Jam play jam track Central. So many great course marketplaces for those high-end guitar courses. And outside of that, there's Facebook groups. There are some great Facebook groups for guitars. There are also some very toxic Facebook groups for guitar players as well. Never, ever take judgment from another guitar player seriously. Constructive critiques are the only things that you should take seriously because those constructive critiques will actually help you out. In the long run. Don't forget that if you really want to join good Facebook group, you can check out my Facebook group on my website, guitar fluence.com. That's GUI TAR F value E ANCE.com. So those are some resources. You could also check out the Justin Guitar.com and outside of digital resources, well, I guess websites I need to have other digital resources like applications that you can check out. But outside of all these digital and internet resources, you can also read books seriously, do not underestimate books. And one of the best book marketplaces for guitar players is fundamental changes. They have some amazing instructors, some amazing authors over there. So checkout fundamental changes. And of course, there are your typical guitar book companies like how Leonard and Mel Bay. I mean, they've all got great books and there are some particular guitar books I'd recommend, like pentatonic concepts by Steve Conn and Ron, middle book, wrong middle Brooks, scales and modes in the beginning. Yeah, I mean, those are some great books right there for learning scales. And then for chords. Like Jodi fishers jazz guitar harmony is one I really like. A lot of people will mention ted greens, court books. I mean, there are so many great books out there for guitar guys. Seriously, don't underestimate those. Men. We also have some essential listening. And when it comes to learning guitar, try and expand your listening horizons. There are a lot of amazing guitar players in every genre. Like when you go to blues, there are great modern players and great classic players. And you have to separate them from one another. Like you've got your modern day players like Joe Bond and Manasseh. And you have your older players like Stevie rate bond. But you've got to listen to them all and then you have your underrated players. Danny gotten. Go listen to people in all sorts of zones. Listen to Gary more patent methionine, Steve buy in vain moms, dean, Shawn Lane, so many amazing players to listen to. And of course, these are all really advanced guys. But if you want to have some more beginner or intermediate friendly guitar players to listen to. You can check out guitarists from most popular rock bands. These are bands like Green Day, the killers. I mean, of course, I can't talk about amazing guitar players without mentioning like Is Jimi Hendrix and go earned some of slashes, guitar riffs, Guns and Roses. I mean, they're all essential and they'll all help you to develop. As a guitar player. I say expand your listening horizons. I mean, listen to jazz guitar, classical guitar, country guitar, bluegrass guitar, rock guitar, listened to it at all seriously? And anyways, that's it for this resources and essential listening section. I guess we'll go to the outro video and I'll see you there. 36. 8C. Capos and Drop D: Okay, now we're gonna talk about Cabos and drop D. So Keiko is this gizmo right here. Now with a K PO, you can basically change what your open strings are. Your Keiko essentially acts as one large bar that going across all six strings on a single frame. What this does is it allows you to move around your open chords. So that's really what a keto does. And a keto can unlock creativity and it can help you modulate keys. And some songs require a Keiko. Right now let's talk about drop D, drug D is where you take your low E and you drop it to a D note. When you drop it to a denote, well, we're used to playing R power chords at least throughout the course, like this. With our first finger, third finger. If you have dropped D, You can play power chords with a bar. You can just use your first finger or your third finger or your middle thing, it really whatever. To play these bars. You'll find a lot of bands doing this, including Foo Fighters, tool, lots of fantastic fans. Anyways, yeah, if you want to mess around with dropped deep, just take your first finger and slide it around. If you want a really quick drop D scale that's fun to work with. Just played. Third fret, fifth fret, seventh, fret, 10th for threat and calm friend. That would sound like this. If you could borrow all the notes, you're just borrowing those top three strings there. And you can create music for days. Barring those. Anyways, there's drop D and there's using a cable. Let's move on to our next lesson. 37. Outro Video: Well, thank you so much for taking my guitar course. You can connect with me at guitar fluence.com, GUID AR, guitar fluence FL UEN.com, guitar influence.com. But I hope you were able to take a lot away from this guitar coerce. There's anything that I hope you were able to take away is that you can have fun engineered to have fun on the guitar. And you know, I feel bad for not emphasizing that enough in this course. But guitar in the long run is all about having fun and enjoying yourself, especially with other people, other musicians. I mean, remember that your guitar and any instrument can be a means of communication. And having the ability to communicate your musically is one of the best abilities you can ever have. There's not a better feeling on the planet. And you will, in an odd way feel like you're communicating with yourself when you're playing your instrument. I mean, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but instruments are magical. Creating music is magical, especially when you're creating original music and even when you're playing with someone else's music, like I say, have fun with your guitar. I remember that it is seriously one of the best ways to express yourself and communicate with others. I mean, if you go and you meet someone who does not speak your language, but they play the same instrument as you do. You can play together, and that's the beauty of music. Anyways, once again, I'm Miles altered. Check me out at guitar fluence.com. Hopefully, you can find some resources there that can help you out. And if anything, just join the Facebook group that you can find on the website. Anyways, thanks again for taking this course and rock on.