- Hi, I'm Hala Finley.
I play Ojo on, "We Can Be Heroes,"
and today we're gonna be playing some guitar.
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So the main things that you're gonna need are
picks and
a tuner.
The standard tuning for guitar is usually E, A,
D, G,
B, E.
The string is in tune when the tuner kind of turns green.
For example,
that's
(guitar string vibrates) when it's in tune.
And,
yeah.
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All right.
Now that we're in tune, let's get to some finger warmups.
So basic finger warmups that I usually do
before playing guitar are,
you're gonna have to put your first finger
on the first fret of the sixth string,
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This string (string vibrates)
Then your second finger
on the
second fret
of the six string.
Your third finger on the third fret of the sixth string.
And your pinky on the fourth fret of the sixth string.
(guitar string vibrates)
And do the same thing on every string
but like moving up to all the way to here, so like,
(guitar string vibrates)
And now that we're all warmed up,
let's get into some chords.
So some simple chords sort of are usually used
in a lot of songs are like,
a C chord,
a D chord, E minor,
G.
So a D
would be your
second finger
on the second fret of the first string.
(guitar string vibrates)
Your ring finger on the third fret of the second string
and your first finger on the second fret
of the third string.
So it'd be something like,
(guitar string vibrates)
The D minor chord would be like
your first finger on the first fret of the first string,
your second finger on the second fret of the third string
and your ring finger on the third fret of the second string.
D minor would sound something like this,
(guitar string vibrates)
D major,
(guitar string vibrates)
D minor.
Another simple chord is G,
which is your first finger on the second frets
of the fifth string,
second finger on the third frets of the sixth string.
And then you can use your pinky or your ring finger
on the third fret of the first string.
It's kind of whatever is more comfortable for you.
I prefer using my ring finger, but again,
it, whatever works for you.
So this chord should sound something like this,
(guitar string vibrates)
A G chord.
Another simple chord which is C would be
your first finger on the first fret of the second string,
the second finger on the second fret of the fourth string
and your ring finger on the third fret of the fifth string.
So that will sound something like this,
(guitar string vibrates)
Then there's E minor, which is a really simple chord,
just your first finger on the second fret
of the fifth string
and your second finger on the second fret
of the fourth string,
which is just this,
(guitar string vibrates)
E major is not much different than E minor.
You probably use your second finger and ring finger here
and put your first finger on the first fret
of the third string.
The difference is very little, just like
(guitar string vibrates)
E minor.
(guitar string vibrates)
E major.
Well, another one is A minor and A.
So A minor would be your first finger on the first fret
of the second string.
Second finger on the second fret of the fourth string,
and your ring finger on the second fret of the third string.
A minor would sound something this,
(guitar string vibrates)
And A major isn't much different.
You're just kind of moving your first finger
to where your second finger was,
and moving your second finger to where your ring finger was
and putting your ring finger on the second fret
on the second string right here.
So kind of just putting the ring finger behind them.
A major would sound something like this,
(guitar string vibrates)
Well, A major is also just A.
And those are some basic chords.
I mean, there's other ones too.
It starts to get like a little crazier,
like into barre chords and stuff,
which is B minor,
(guitar string vibrates)
So you would take your first finger
and bar the whole second fret and take your second finger
and put it on the third fret of the second string
and your ring finger on the fourth fret of the fourth string
and your pinky on the fourth fret of the third string.
And B minor would sound something like this,
(guitar string vibrates)
Chords kind of getting crazier later on.
There's like other barre chords,
some chords are all the way down here.
I suppose, that we can go into like
different strums and stuff.
You can kind of make up any strum you want really,
if you just kinda
(guitar string vibrates)
play while strumming the chords one side.
(guitar string vibrates)
I'm just going to use the chords, D, G and C as an example.
So like this,
(guitar string vibrates)
Kind of be more like a mellow down song
or if you're trying to go for something more of a beat
you can kind of add any strum you want,
you can even just go like up and down like,
(guitar string vibrates)
I kind of just mess around with like any strums,
like down, down, up
up,
down, up
and then back to down, down, up.
So it'll be like,
(guitar string vibrates)
And then you switch chords,
but play the same strum on the next chord.
(guitar string vibrates)
And then next one,
(guitar string vibrates)
Those are mainly the basics for guitar.
I have made up a few tunes by myself like,
(bass string notes vibrate)
That's one of the tunes I made up, but yeah
those were some of the basics for guitar.
Thanks for playing with me.
Don't forget,
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