What’s up guys? It’s Aaron. I hope you can see this alright. I am in Atlanta for a friend’s wedding and I have a song that I wanted to teach you guys. It’s by Faber Drive. It’s called “Again.” It’s really an acoustic song. There are four chords that they use. There is a D minor. It goes D minor, then it goes to a B flat, then it goes to an F, and then it goes to a C. So there’s plenty different ways to play that. On this acoustic guitar here, there’s actually three different ways that you can play this comfortably. You can get up here and it’s getting a little out of range.
The first way I’m going to teach you is with open chords. If you’re somebody who doesn’t mind bar chords then the second way I’m going to teach you I think is better. But, if you like open chords and you like playing down here, then this is the first way of playing it.
The first chord is a D minor. Take your ring finger, and put it on actually the start of the high E string. The pointer finger on the first fret, then take your middle finger and put in the one your G string. It’s the third string up from the bottom, second fret. And your ring finger is on the third fret at this B string. I use the D minor. Alright, so if you know the way the song sounds, you can listen to it. Start off with the D minor.
The second chord it goes to is a B flat. So the only way I put the B flat in here is the bar chord. So you have to bar across the bottom five strings on the first fret. And this ring finger what I always refer to it as a mini bar, is going to come down here and bar the one, two, three. It’s going to bar the D, the G and the B strings all on the third fret. With your bar here and you have this, that’s your B flat.
Alright, because a B major chord is up here. This is its flat, move it down one. Alright so you have your D minor here, you B flat, the next one is your F. So if you’re making the F, bar chord down here. The way I like to do it is, if you have this mini bar, and you think this finger is the barred here on the D string. When you go to your F, you almost roll it up, just roll just straight up on to that, to that A string there on the third fret.
Then you now can make your F bar. You put your pinky down there on the third fret, in your D string. The middle finger gets on the second fret of your G string, the one, two, three, fourth one down one from the top, the third one up from the bottom. And then your bar across all six strings. That’s your F, and then to your C, you just leave that ring finger. There is a common finger on the third fret of this string, the middle finger. And the C is on the second fret of your D string. And your pointer finger is on your first fret of your B string.
So if that one was a little fast for you, the four chords are D minor, open, open, open, second fret middle finger, ring finger third fret, pointer finger first fret. Next one is B, B flat actually. This one is kind of muted by your pointer finger resting on it. This one is first fret, then third, third, third, and first. Then the next one is your F. So your F is bar and cross all the E’s. Then A string, second string down, you have your ring finger on the third fret, pinky finger on the third fret on the D, middle finger second fret, and your G and your B are first and first on that bar.
And the last one is your C. Open, three with your ring, two with your middle, open, first is your pointer open. So I’ll be playing that, so it’s this. If you’ve heard the song, so when I play that play, so the D minor, down, down, down, up, switch to the B, down, down, down, up, the switch to the F, down, down, down, up, and when I get to C, I play down, down, down, up, up, down, down, up, down, up, rewind the video and write that strum pattern down, slow if you can’t pick it up.
This second way to play it is the way I prefer to play it because you can hear how high those notes are at the beginning, sounds like they’re up here. This is a natural high, whatever. So when I play this, I play up here. So I bar across all six strings on the tenth fret and then put my ring and pinky on the twelfth fret of the A and D, and I play.
That’s how I play my D minor. It’s there, because this is the D major. Take that middle finger off the D minor. Alright so D minor, same strum pattern down, down, down, up. Slide your bar all the way down here to the sixth fret. Alright… and put that middle finger down. So then that gives you a B major chord would be on the seventh, so it’s a B flat. Alright because B flat, this means to make your chords be one step down.
So you have up here, the mother chord, D minor, bar across the 10, ring and pinky on 12, slide down here to sixth fret with your bar, and to make the major chord, put that middle finger down there on the seventh fret of your G string… then you’ve got to come up have to the eighth fret, bar across the bottom five strings, and then put that mini bar down there on the tenth fret… and that’s your F. So this is all same strum patter, down, down, down, up. And then you just move the bar up to all six strings. They’re on the eighth fret again. Ring and pinky on the tenth fret of you’re A and D, middle finger down the ninth fret of your G, and there’s your C chord. So I’m playing… That’s the second way of playing it.
There’s some way to play it in the middle but I don’t think that way is good. If you have two people, have one person play the open, the other person can play. I think that sounds pretty cool. Alright now for the solo, the solo is actually a pretty easy solo to play. The tab is up here. I don’t have a link for the chord. Sorry. I don’t have a link for the chords because I couldn’t find it to get one so just, you can Google us for chords, or write them down and we’ll talk about them if you sure want that video.
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