How to Play 10 Most Important Guitar Chords For Beginners - Part 3
Hi there. I'm Tomas Michaud and this is part 3 of my series the 10 Most Important Guitar
Chords For Beginners. Now, in the last three parts we did 8 chords and this is the last
two chords but I'm also gonna give you some exercise to practice the chords that's really
important so let's get started.
Next chord- A minor, this is a pretty easy one. The form looks like just the A minor,
I'm sorry the E only move everything over one string looks just like the E everything
goes over one string, see that's A minor, that's E, that's A minor so let's finger it
one at a time.
First finger is second string first fret, stretch the second finger over to the fourth
string second fret and put the third finger in between on the third string second fret
same A based it's in the A chord, same as the A7, A minor. E is part of the chord (01:08).
Try the A minor again ready first finger, stretch over the second finger and in the
third finger in between. Good. See. How each notes sound? Clear. Stretch your finger a
little bit. Get that finger nice and close to the fret but not on top just towards getting
to hit the fret. Okay. Got my second finger nice and close to the fret, my third finger
in between. You don't wanna angle up too much like that and I know there's a (01:40) there.
Good. One more time, A minor first finger second finger and in between third.
Okay. Now for what will be your favourite chord, the infamous F chord. The more difficult
of all the chords we've done so far but absolutely essential. No way out. You gotta learn this
chord, F chord. Let me play up first now I'll show you what it should look like. That's
a good F chord, definitely not the only way to make F chord. You should know if you watch
people, this is a common one too. Let's call it a bar chord a full bar chord. We will start
with the partial F chord. You're gonna need that anyway even if you go right the bar chord
(02:37).
This is a good F chord. I've got my two fingers angled up and coming back down but this finger
flattened out as the first note of my first finger. See that there. There's a space right
here. It's not cramped up like that and my hand is aiming down not angled up like that.
Nice clear F chord. Now the difficult part is this first finger, knuckle up. My second
knuckles up in the air, first knuckles flattened down. I'm heading two strings at once. This
is a valuable technique. A little hard to hang up, just practice. Put your fingers down
on the first and second strings, that's the first fret. Again, not on top of the (03:23)
behind it and see if they sound. You wanna just practice that for a while.
Take your hand off. Shake it off. First finger, hit those two strings and when you're ready,
add the second finger on the third string second fret, that's actually a chord by the
way. It's called the D minor 7 chord not as usual F but it's a real chord, like that.
Get that over the fourth string it's a D minor 7, put that away for later but to go to get
ready to play the F chord so I've got the first two strings on the first fret sounding
in its second finger over on the third string second fret so that the step in practicing
this. Take your hand off and just try that much.
First finger then two strings, the second not going here but the first knuckles flattened
down and the second finger stretch over to the third string second fret. Now, you wanna
practice that for a little while and then the next step your third finger goes over
to the fourth string third fret, fourth string, third fret -- that's the F chord. We called
that half bar because this is a little technique here, half bar. This is the full bar and a
half bar and this technique is valuable that's why I don't skip right to the full bar. You
need this. It's a little ease on the full bar but it's valuable to know anyway. So for
those who are ready, let's do the full F chord.
First finger, second finger on the third string second fret and then the third finger over
there on the fourth string and let's see if it sounds. Do it again. First finger, second
finger third string, fourth string third finger. Sometimes it makes your finger hurt a little
bit. Okay. One more time. First finger, second finger and third finger. Try it and again
you wanna try to avoid these two fingers part of the chord but don't worry too much about
it. Put more attention on the left hand right now. Okay.
Let's do A minor, nice and easy one. Got it? Now, F. Go ahead. First finger, second finger
and third finger F... Back to A minor, F...A minor...and F. got it? As if, it sounds like
this.
Now here's a little progression to practice the F chord along with the other few chord.
It's gonna sound like this A minor. We're gonna use the G from part 1. I prefer to play
it with my pinky for this chord progression. You do it anyway you want. Remember we did
these three fingers, these two fingers and then even for some just the third finger.
I'm gonna use the low pinky G and then the F and the E chord so do it with me, E minor,
good, G, F chord. Good. Take your time. First finger, second finger and third finger and
E chord. Again, E minor, G. This is a Spanish sounding progression. F but it has been used
(08:07) used too. E, A minor, G, F and E. Let's do it with the strum. Four down, E.
It actually makes the changing a little slower because you get more time to get the chord.
But I want you to start practicing in rhythm. Start with A minor, G, F and E. Here we go,
A minor 1, 2, 3,go to G, F and E again A minor, G, F, 2, 3, 4 ready....A minor 1, 2,3, G...F...and
E....
Let's do it a little faster. If you're not ready for that just go back and review this
part and keep practicing with the tape so a little faster 1, 2, 3, 4 A minor, G... F...E
A minor, G..F..E above with the strum down, down, up, down , down, down, up, down, down,
down, up, down - about a little fingerpicking, about with a little faster strum.
Okay, thank you for joining me in this tape. If you enjoyed this, you really enjoy my blog
which has lots of tips and tricks for learning to play guitar. It's at StarlandGuitar.com
also I have a more complete course called easy guitar awesomeness that teaches you rhythm,
strumming, more chords, ways of playing the chords and even eventually some finger picking
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