hey it's Bob Harris here and welcome to easy beginner
fingerstyle guitar lessons this is lesson number three.
If you haven't taken lesson number one and two,
simply go down to the link below and click on that
take those lessons- these are all in progressions so..
if you ready for lessson number three.. here we go...okay first what I want to do is I
wanna show you the
E minor chord form- it's one of the easiest courds to play on the guitar
it's only using two fingers
we're going to be using our middle finger and will be using our ring finger
so only two fingers is what we're going to do.. we're going to play it on
the fifth and forth strings
to frets up both... so let's put our
middle finger on the 5th string
2 frets up- remember this is 1
2 3 4 5 6.. that's how these are numbered
so on the 5th string two frets up
gonna go right here and then with or
ring finger
we're going to go to frets up on the 4th string
okay so two frets up on the 4th string
and then to frets up on the 5th string
that we already just did
I've been showing you
that the closest to the fret that you are
the better your note is going to sound.
if you're back here... not good
you wanna be right here... make sure to have put your hand
you don't want your finger way out here like this
you wanted in kind of a vice grip... and I've been saying to everybody that
if your fingers are hurting you're having problems with pain in your hand
and stuff like that
the only pain you should have would be on the tips have your fingers
from not playing- but once you start to
play more, you're going to develop calluses, I don't know if you could see
the calluses here
but this is from over many years of playing
fifth string- middle finger
fourth-string
ring finger
go ahead and give this a try ....you could see that this figure here
just can't possibly go up here... so it's going to be down here but if you're
holding the chord right
you have your hand in a good position to play the chord
you'll notice I haven't arch here... let's see if we could see that
this is a hard one to show but my hand is
arching .........hand is arching
to where I'm not hitting the (open) strings when I'm pressing on the chord
we've been doing
just as a review I showed you this chord right here
that was the first lesson...
and we used these 4 strings right here 4-3-2-1 in this
picking pattern here
and then the A5 chord
or the a chord that I showed you the former the A chord
and we moved that 4-string picking pattern down here
and we haven't seen those videos just go below in the description area I have all
that stuff available so
should do that first and then come back to this do this in order very important
ok - so now we have the E minor chord
and if you look.it's the same thing is this
A form chord except, it's just on two different strings
okay so now I watched you also look at this... with the
picking that we were doing with the A chord,we were on
starting on the 5th string
and playing all the way to the second-string
so we were going like this
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this is gonna be the first deviation and I'm
gonna show your
for the E Minor chord and first
picking difference between those picking those two chords
what I'm gonna do is- instead of hitting this note again we're
gonna keep the same form
for the A chord we're gonna do it for the E minor chord
that we just learned. instead of hitting this 5th string,
we're gonna be alternating back in skipping
over this 5th string right here- so even though we're playing this chord and we're
not going to be playing this note
the picking sounds like this
and we'll get into detail
let's break that down...
here's the A chord that we learned from the last video
and we were going
hope you've learned that.... all we're doing is we're taking
the only thing that's changing with the picking pattern here is- we're not going
to hit the string anymore
we're going to skip over it (the 5th string) and hit the E note (6th string)
the bottom E note- the six string and alternate back and forth.
now let's form the E minor chord
proper hand position
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I'm actually skipping over the string (5th string)
That's it for this lesson
remember to go down below if you need to take the first lesson and go through
these (Fingerpicking For beginners) .
this will be the fourth one (lesson) .. That whole picking pattern
and all these other chords in detail that I just showed you...
so now we know
we know the easy form of a D chord
two fingers
We know the A Chord (called A5)
and we know the E minor
and the E minor picking pattern is different... once again I'm gonna show you
real close and slow
we're working our way up to being able to play a song
obviously you've got no some chords... I have a song coming up so
we will see you on the next video and
please practice.... practice five minutes a day is all you gotta do
5-10 minutes just have your guitar in your hand and go
and I'll see on the next video