Hello YouTube! Eric Legaud from Galago Music.
Today I would like to present you My Girl. The cover made by Nirvana of this track by Lead Belly.
There are four chords, a few tricks that sound pretty well along the way.
Let's see everything in detail! Left hand chords, right hand strumming!
So, first of all, the list of the four chords.
We have an E major.
Place the index on the 1st fret of the G string,
next the ring finger on the 2nd fret of the D string, and the middle finger on the 2nd fret of the A string.
And we strum everything. The pinkie is useless.
There, maybe we can see better like this... Anyway.
Next we will do an A major.
There are two ways to do a A major,
the first way is to place those three fingers like this,
the index on the 2nd fret of D, the middle finger on the 2nd fret of G and the ring finger on the 2nd fret of B. This placing feels a bit tight.
It's not the most comfortable placing in my opinion.
What you can do, however, if you're a bit used to bar chords, is to bar like this, a bit sideways,
starting from the D string, and sideways so as to muffle the little e string.
What we want to hear is the A string... and the three next strings.
If the finger is too much against the fret, it sounds like this and it's really not beautiful.
So I'll start again, the E chord, the A,
next we have a G!
G major.
I place the middle finger on the 3rd fret of E,
the index on the 2nd fret of A, and the remaining fingers on the 3rd and 3rd frets of the last two strings.
And we strum everything.
And the last one is a B chord.
It's a B chord,
with a power chord shape.
The power chord is...
It's like that. We're gonna press the index on the second fret of A,
the ring finger on the 4th fret of D, and the pinkie on the 4th fret of G.
And then, you'll have to aim good, with the right hand, at the string you are pressing.
Another way to do it, so as not to bother being precise,
would be to extend the index a tad, so that the tip of the finger, touches the E string. That way it doesn't ring.
Here it rings, it I extend the index it doesn't ring anymore...
I replace the other fingers, and still with the index, I'm gonna make a sort of little bridge like that,
which will block the last e string, and the B string, so now,
when I place the power chord correctly,
instead of having to be precise, I make the bridge technique, and that way I can strum everything.
I strum the 6 strings.
And so only the strings in the middle ring. There you are! Let's see the right hand!
For the right hand, the most simple way to accompany ourselves with those chords, is to use that strumming.
Down - * Up Down Up Down - * Up Down Up Down - * Up Down Up
One bar with this pattern is Down - * Up Down Up
What we have also, are the little stuff with the left hand we hear at the beginning.
We'll see that right afterwards, but for now let's work the pattern on the right hand!
Down - * Up Down Up I do a little tss or a little *clic* when I go down without strumming.
It's very important to always keep the down-up-down-up movement on the right hand.
It's a 3/4 time signature, it's a bit different from what we're used to.
And now you can make this work on the four chords, even without the fancy stuff coz it's not easy. Here's how it sounds!
Let's see the detail of the structure!
So now we're gonna see all the elements and the notes that will make this track a bit more fluffy.
There are two things to remember. When we're on the E, the first chord,
and that we will go towards the A,
we will place three notes which will be the empty E, or the big E,
next 2nd fret, still on the big E string,
4th fret,
and we land on the A.
So in context...
Once again.
For the struming with the pick it's very important to do Down Up Down, and Up on the A.
And what I do on the A also, is that I place the thumb on top, to block the E string. Otherwise...
It works too but... the E isn't so great with the A chord.
It's better if we shut it out.
Not easy but... with a bit of very slow practice...
It'll work very well.
So with the struming...
OK? The last thing, when we're on the B power chord,
I will press the 3rd fret of the E string,
and I will bend it a bit, i.e I pull the string towards the floor,
just a little bit so that the sound rises slightly.
And I will land on the E which is the end of the chords list.
That's how we finish the track.
I'll do the whole list of chords, with the notes along the way.
So you can see the right hand well.
And now we've finished a whole cycle.
We will start back from the E. Here's the order of the chords.
E, E again,
A, one bar G, one bar
B, B, again
E, and a second bar of E.
And again! E x2
A, G
B x2 E x 2
With the right speed.
There you are! Thanks a lot, I hope you enjoyed it! Bye!
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