>> Let's take a look at a power chord
based on the notes that you've learned on the six string.
The most common way to play a power chord,
is to just add one other finger.
What you'll do is you'll find the note that is the name of the chord.
Say your A power chord.
You play the A,
which is on the fifth fret,
with your index finger.
You're going to see what finger feels the most
comfortable to play the second note, so for me,
that's my ring finger,
and that note is on the seventh fret of the fifth string.
You'll see there's one fret in between.
We're using fingers, 1 and 3 on frets 5 and 7.
Do not use your second finger,
don't use that one, you don't want to stretch that much between two fingers.
If it's really hard for you to put down your third finger,
you can use your little finger for now your fourth finger,
and then the stretch will come.
If you can use your third finger grade,
if not, go ahead and use your fourth.
You going to do with your picking hand,
is you're going to strum down,
but you can only hit the strings that you are fretting,
so you can only hit string 6 and 5.
You're going to strong down on a diagonal,
and then right after you play that fifth string,
you're going to turn up just a little bit,
like you're opening that door knob.
It looks like this [MUSIC].
It feels like a bit of a flick when you do it.
[MUSIC] That's your A5 power chord, it's called A5.
That's how you'll see it in the chart.
What we're going to do is try a set of chords,
it's a really common order of chords,
and it was famously used in a Beatles song.
The cords are D5,
D power chord, A power cord, A5 and G5.
That means that you're going to the 10th fret,
put on your next finger,
and put your third finger on the 12th thread,
there's your D5 chord [MUSIC].
Just play that until it feels comfortable [MUSIC].
Then you're going to look ahead at the fifth fret,
and you're going to take off the pressure that you have down
on the D power chord and you're going to slide it to the A power cord.
You'll notice that the frets over here closer to the body are smaller,
so as you shift,
you have to open up your hand just a little bit,
so see if you can manage that,
and then put it down on the A power chord which is frets 5 and 7,
so here we go [MUSIC].
Then the third one we're going to do in a row is the G. So you're going to slide,
take your pressure off,
slide your fingers to the third fret and the fifth fret,
there's a G power chord [MUSIC].
Don't forget to breathe as you do this,
so here it goes again, D [MUSIC],
A [MUSIC], G [MUSIC],
one more time; D
[MUSIC], A [MUSIC], and G
[MUSIC]. The course of the song,
that part adds the B power chord in,
that goes B,
which is on 7 and 9,
those frets, slide it down to A,
just based on the fifth fret,
[MUSIC] and then slide it down to G,
which is based on third fret [MUSIC],
and then we're going to go back up to A, [MUSIC].
So it's beyond seven slide back to A based on the fifth fret,
and then slide back to G based on the third fret,
and then up to A again.
[MUSIC]
What we're going to do is take a look at the chart now that once
you get the shifting down and he felt pretty comfy with the chords and take your time,
in the chart,
it's great because you have four bars of D. So
we're just going to hit the D power chord and count for each time,
so this is the first line
of the song
[MUSIC].
I was silently counting to four each time,
I was going D,
can use your metronome for that,
you can set it temple.
The trick is going to be after the fourth D chord,
you have to make it to the A chord.
What I'm going to do is I'll conduct myself a little bit,
so you can see my B,
and you'll see that after I hit that D chord the fourth time,
I'm going to move my hands so that right when the A chord is supposed to happen,
I'm on that chord.
Here it goes, I'm going to count like;
[MUSIC].
The next chord I go to,
after hitting A twice,
is I go to G, the last chord in our verse,
so then I'm going to stop the strings.
So D four times,
then A twice, G ones.
Each time they get four counts.
Here it goes again, 1, 2,
[MUSIC].
What you'll see is that as you go,
you won't need to leave as much time before the shift to make it to the next chord.
In the beginning, it's okay to leave some space because
the rest of the band or your friends that you're playing with they're going to help you,
and what's really important is to get there when you're supposed to get there.
But eventually you'll be able to do
a shift like this
[MUSIC].
That's because you'll be coordinated with your emotions and you'll trust yourself.
The most important thing, find your notes,
make your chord comfortable, look ahead,
shift your eyes,
get there on time,
and don't forget to breath [LAUGHTER].
It's a lot of steps,
but just take your time,
go step-by-step and it'll get easier and easier as you go.