I'm going to show you three essential Spanish guitar chords so that you can
play exotic Spanish guitar right after watching this video. Let's do this.
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lessons and tutorials. These three chords each have a certain amount of dissonance
in the chord that makes it sound somewhat exotic and they're commonly
used in Spanish guitar. So I'm going to show you in no particular order right
now and then I'll go back and show you how you can put them together and make
something that fits together. Let's get going. Look at my left hand. The first
chord is called an F major seven sharp eleven. Please don't worry about the
names. It's really not that important. As a matter fact, sometimes I just call it the
F chord thing. Here's what it sounds like ---
pretty exotic, huh. Now it may look complicated at first but
it's actually not that difficult. It's easier than a barre chord because you're
not actually making a bar. It looks like an E chord. Moved up, one fret and then
the first finger brought over to the sixth string first fret. That high string
is actually open, the high E. So let's finger it one finger at a time. I'll
start off by fingering the first fret on the sixth string that's the low E string.
Now I'm gonna put my 3rd and pinky together on the fifth string third fret
and the fourth string third fret. It's easier to think of them as going down
together than putting one at a time. Now that second finger is gonna go on the
third string 2nd fret. There, got it. That's the chord. Go ahead and place your
fingers. Take them off, shake it out and do it a few times until all the strings
sound clearly. Now part of the trick of course is making enough of an arc so that
this hand doesn't actually touch the first string if you want to ring or the
second string for that matter. They're both ringing and that's what it
makes that exact sound. By itself it might sound tense but you'll see when
you put it with other cords it fits onto the second cord. Now the second chord is
actually a little easier to finger. It looks like a kind of a G chord but we're
gonna call it E minor 7/G. The /G means the G note in the base and
that's a six string third fret. I'm making it by putting my third finger on
the third fret sixth string skipping the fifth string. My second finger is on the
2nd fret of the fourth string and then I'm skipping the third string again and
my pinky' is on the second string third fret and the high E is open. I'm
not actually playing that fifth string. You see my third finger is angling
slightly and touching it so even if I hit it, it just dead's out so the chord
sounds like that, pretty chord.
Let's finger it again. Third finger third fret sixth string. Skip the fifth string.
Second finger down on the fourth string second fret. Skip the third string. Second
string, pinky down, third fret. There, got it. Hard to see from up here and then
open E. And again, you do need to angle your fingers in other words they go up
and down. If your hand is too flat, they're gonna touched and deaden out.
It might take a little practice. And a good way to practice is to start off with
just take your hand off fingers of the chord, strum it a few times,
see what you need to do to get the string sound and then take it off no
more than ten seconds. You don't want to get too much tension
built in that's why you should take it off and shake your hands. On to the third
chord. Now the third chord has a little bit of a stretch. It looks like this -- ah
beautiful. Now this is called an A minor nine. This
would be an A minor seven without the pinky and the pinky is playing the ninth
of the chord.
So I know it's a little bit of a stretch and it might take some practice
to get the pinky in the right place. You might want to start with just A minor
seven and then little by little add the pinky in there.
So let's finger that chord. We're gonna put the second finger on the third fret
of the third string, that's a fourth string. What am I talking about!? Now let's
get the third string. In the second string, I'm putting my first finger down
on the first fret and we've got open E string. So now we're gonna take that
pinky and fill in the gap between the fourth and the second string on the
third string fourth fret and that's a stretch. Now remember you do need to have
enough of an angle in your pinky so that it's not touching the other strings and
that might be where the trick is. A lot of people can stretch there but their
fingers is so flattened out that deadens the other strings. You're gonna have to
have your hand fairly flushed, this won't work.
Angle this way because the pinky won't stretch over far enough or at least not
enough of an angle so my hands pretty well up and down. And I have
my thumb directly behind the neck of the guitar. I'm not doing any of this
thumb over that you just don't have the stretch when you do that. A minor 9.
Now that you had the three chord fingerings, let me show you a good way to
practice it. Start off with the A minor 9 or if you're just starting out, you might
wanna start with A minor 7 and add the pinky as you progress. Then move the
third finger over to that E minor 7/G. Remember the /G is the
G note in the base that's a sixth string. Put the pinky down on the third fret
second string. Take the first finger off. You don't need it. It doesn't sound and
that's E minor 7 /G and then go to the F from there. Now
you put the first finger down and form the rest of the F chord. So together it
sounds like this, A minor 9 to the E minor 7.See there wasn't too
much movement there. I left the second finger where it is. Now
I put the first finger down and move them over and then again
and with a little strumming.
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