welcome to beginner fingerstyle guitar lessons
this is lesson number two if you haven't seen lesson number one yet
go to the link below take that lesson first
and then come back here let's get started with lesson number two
so if you recall in our last lesson
we learned this picking pattern starting on the 4th string
so I hope you've been practicing and then we learned a form of a D chord
which was this
keep this figure (middle finger) out a way to show you what I'm doing
you should have this finger up here
just out of the way for right now
were eventually gonna learn this now I'm couple people have written into
me and they said that their hand is hurting back here
well if your hand is hurting that means you're doing it wrong okay
so couple things that could be wrong if you having a while tension in the back
of your hand here
you've got to make sure that you're holding your hand correctly
your left hand - your thumb should be down here
okay and your
fingers should be right below the fret
so I'm not really pressing that hard if you're really pressing
digging in.. that means you're doing it wrong
The further away from the fret
for the notes and I'm trying to do.. you have to press harder
to get the notes out because what's making the note
play is by freting it just below the fret
okay so if you're pressing really hard
that means you're doing it wrong okay... so nice n Easy
the next thing we're going to do now is we're gonna go and learn another chord
okay so I said in the last lesson this is six
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
on the 4th string we're gonna go with our middle finger
we're gonna go up to frets we're gonna play that now
and then with our ring finger
we're gonna go up to frets on the 3rd string and play that now
we're going to try to playing together okay now when you put your fingers
together here
my fingers are fat and everybody's usually are (well, maybe not) but it's impossible to get both of
your fingers right below the fret
so this one right here
your middle finger has to be back here a little bit
but if you have your hand in a good position nice and relaxed
no tension
you just strum this from the fourth string all the way down
very pretty chord
now the reason I'm teaching you these particular chords is because what we're
going to be doing is we're going... I'm gonna show you
a song when I learned when I was just starting out playing
and its really pretty
you're going to be able to do it because they're very easy chords ...so now
with that picking pattern that we originally learned
and this is from...
if you recall we had the D chord
we were forming the D chord
and that was going from the 4th to the first string so what we're going to
do is going to take our hand
and just move it down one more string starting on the 5th string and
ending on the second-string
and what we do is we're going to do that same exact pattern
only instead of being here it's right here
no court on the top (left hand) yet
now if you haven't practiced that pattern that I showed you go back to lesson
number one below again
and work on that pattern first and then when you're
it would be this
when you can play it fairly fast
like that tempo maybe even a little slower if fine
then come back to this lesson okay... but importantly
you get that picking pattern
that's in the trillion songs okay so all we did was we moved
this over to here.. so now with our
left hand we're gonna go and play that Chord that I showed you
which is both fingers up 2 frets
on the 4th and the third-string
the middle finger is on the
second fret of the fourth string
the ring finger
is on the 3rd string 2 frets up
And it's a form of an A chord.. very pretty so if you play that pattern
holding that chord down it sounds like this
slow I'll do it
okay so that's it... practice that lesson Ithere's going to be more
easy beginner fingerstyle guitar lessons coming up
so get this lesson under your belt by the time you practice it all have made
the next video for you
so take it easy good luck, and we'll see you soon