When you're new to guitar,
everybody's telling you you have to learn all of this stuff.
A get Gillian chords here.
You got to learn how to read music here and then you can start having fun with
the guitar, but I have a completely different philosophy.
I think when you start playing guitar, when you're just learning,
your mission is to get hooked and have fun because that leads to progress and
that leads to a fulfilling and productive guitar journey.
Now I'm about to share with you something that will lead to major fun on the
guitar and I guarantee you it's going to get you hooked.
It's called power chords. Now,
power chords are beautiful because your fingers only have one job and when they
complete that job, when they make that chord shape,
all you have to do is move it around and you can play a bunch of chords using
the same exact chord shape. Let me show you this core shape.
It's actually super easy.
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take your index finger, place it on the fifth fret of the low east string.
Then you're going to take your ring finger,
place it on the seventh fret of the a string,
and then you're going to take your pinky finger and right underneath your ring
finger gonna. Place it on the seventh fret of the district.
Now in terms of picking,
you're just going to play the low three strings or the strings that you're
fretting
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That is the power cord shape. Now check this out.
No matter where I move it on the low three strings, it's going to sound cool.
You can move it anywhere and it's a court and I want you to experiment with it.
So right now, pause this video,
make this chord shape and go willy nilly with this chord shape. Move it around.
See what sounds good. See if it doesn't sound good in a certain place,
be my guest to place it anywhere on those low three strengths.
Now once you've done that, check this out, this chord is going to become,
is going to become two times as useful, doubly useful if you will,
because what you're gonna do is drop each finger towards the floor. One string.
Your index finger is gonna move to the fifth fret of the AA string.
Your ring finger is going to move to the seventh thread of the D and your pinky
finger is going to move to the seventh fret of the g.
Now you're just going to play the strings that you're fretting. Okay?
You're going to play the a, the d and the g, that's also a power cord
and it's just as movable as the other power cord shape. In fact,
if this same exact shape just on a different string set,
now you will notice that my middle finger comes up.
I'm not trying to insult anybody,
I'm just using it to actually mute low e string because it's not part of this
power cord shape, right?
So we have the low e power cord and the a string power cord.
Now I'm going to show you a way to practice these power cords with a song you've
heard before that you're about to learn in an extremely quick timeframe.
Check this out. There's three power chord positions that we're going to use.
The one on the fifth fret of the of the low east drink,
the one on the fifth fret of the a string and the one on the seventh fret of
the AA Stream.
Here's the pattern I want you to follow on the fifth fret of the low e.
I want you to go one, two, three, all down strokes with your pick one, two,
three.
Then you're going to move to the fifth fret of the a string and just do one,
two, all down strokes. One too.
You might already here where this has gone.
Then you're going to bump that court shape up to the seventh fret of the A and
do that one, two, three again. Okay,
so so far we have one, two, three, one, two, one, two,
three. Now we're going to go back to the fifth fret of the a string.
Do another one too, all down strokes,
and then back to the low east string. Fifth Fret, another set of one, two,
three, right? So here it is in its entirety. One, two,
three, one, two, three, one, two, one,
two through. And you're going play that till the cows come home.
And here's another pro tip for you. Check this out.
If you're having a hard time making these power chord shapes and you're feeling
like your fingers are all spread out,
all you have to do is move it up towards the body of the guitar and the frets
actually become closer together. You can actually look at it.
The frets are farther apart towards the nut of the guitar than they are by the
body.
And you can follow that same exact pattern so you can play the same pattern,
same song. It's just going to be a little bit easier.
This is just one lesson in a series where I'll take you from zero to guitar
player in 30 days by teaching you the four super fund skills that'll get you
hooked on guitar. Before you get started,
you'll need to download the tabs course guide and 30 day checklist to get yours.
Just click on the link in the description or visit 30 days to play.com.