How to Play Basic Chord and Chord Progression Lesson 2
Hey everybody, it’s Aaron again. This is the second video on basic chords. In the last video I taught you four fingered G chord to the D to A minor, I’m sorry, the A and the E. I also taught you the A minor, of the C and the G and the D. Those two different chords we’re mentions which basically cover about 6 or 7 of the most basic chords. There are two other chords that are bar chords. They are very basic chords but I wanted to show you. One of those that you will encounter is the F bar chord, now one thing that I get from a lot of people is they have trouble holding it down it got it muting. One thing that I wanna recommend right now is when you move to a bar chord, two things. One, when a lot of people play open chords, you can see this thumb is wrap around, okay. I’ve seen lots and lots of popular people, John Meyer, I’ve seen the Goo Goo Dolls guitarist, I’ve seen 3 Doors Down guitarist, and this open chords, I’ve seen them wrap their thumb around. There’s nothing wrong with wrapping your thumb around, the only thing with that, that it becomes a problem is even when I play. I play the thumb wrap around but as soon as I go to a bar chord, I move my thumb back to the back of the neck. The reason I do that is because when you have your thumb on the opposite side of your pointer finger, you can squeeze tighter, okay. So you get easier and stronger grip, right there. So that’s why I would suggest, the first suggestion for bar chords is to move that thumb behind the middle of the neck, opposite of your pointer finger, it gives you more strength to push down on. Another thing I recommend for the basic bar chords, when you’re doing them is you wanna make the bar last, okay. So if you’re gonna do an F bar chord, with an F bar chord, when your second and third strings, down from the top, which are your A and D, your ring and pinky, even on the 3rd fret, okay. So, one, two, third fret. Your middle finger is now gonna go on the 2nd fret of your G string, which is your third string up from the bottom, okay. And once you have that made, then you can take that bar and place it across all six strings. Now, if you’re interested in learning more about bar chords, I have two lessons on how bar chords work. So if you’re on the website, go on the drop down menu to the H, and I think how bar chords work, or maybe L, for learn how bar chords work. You can also search for the genre of music, it has instructional video and, and that should bring it up to. But those, you can learn more about bar chords there. But for the basic chord video, I wanna show you the F bar chord there, and the B minor. Now, one thing you’ll learn in this bar chord is, if, if you’re barring all six strings and you’re playing on six strings, the major bar chords have this formation here. Basically it’s an E chord that you slide up and add a bar, okay. That’s why this is an E, this is an F, this is a G, etcetera. Now when you go down in your barring and playing only the bottom five strings, those bar chords become different, and have different names, because they're getting their bass note from the A string. Instead of earlier, you're getting your bass notes from the low E string. So the B minor bar chord, you’re gonna have the A minor chord here and you’re gonna slide it up a fret and then slide up another fret, okay. So basically your ring and pinky are on the two middle strings, four frets up from the neck, so one, two, three, four. Your middle finger is on the 3rd fret of the second string up from the bottom, which is your B string, and then your pointer finger, once you have those made, is gonna bar across the bottom five strings, that’s your B minor. That, those are the two most common bar chords that I’ve seen in songs. Often I have a news on whiskey lullaby has all open chords, except for that B minor. Now that B minor is also used in conjunction note with a B minor to an A to a D, okay. So, if you wanna practice chord progressions with the B minor. Make your B minor up here… let’s see… okay. Then make an A, like we talked about in the first chord video, to a D. Now if you’re going from that A to the D, earlier we talked about common fingers from a D to an A, that pointer finger stays the same these fingers come up. Now when you’re going back from an A to the D, the opposite way, one also thing that’s easy to recognize is this pointer finger stays the same in both chords, okay. It doesn’t move. When you go from an A to a D, it’s also helpful if you used this ring finger which is on the 2nd fret of your B string and in an A chord in the 3rd fret of your B string and the D chord. So you can slide that finger down one fret, and then you have two common fingers. Add that one there and get your D. So those are some more common chords that are basic. Check out the info box over here if you’re on youtube, and below me if you’re on the website. Hopefully on the website, and there’s gonna be some tablature that shows you where to put your fingers on the chords. If you need learning tabs, I have two videos on learning how to read tabs, notes, chords, etcetera. So, make use of them guys, hope the videos are helping you. And I hope you learn how to play guitar. Take care.