How is it going guys? It is Aaron again. Tonight, I am coming to you from the Holiday Inn in Leesburg, Virginia. I am down here for work and I got with me my dog Chunk and my guitar. I want to kind of another video up.
I was talking to my dad today and he said it will be kind of helpful for some other people if I did some really basic guitar instructions. The one thing that I know when I was starting to play by a year and a half or two years ago, the one thing I am having trouble with is barre chords. A lot of times, you will see tabs and you will have C#m. And when I start playing, I was sitting wondering what the C#m. So, I Googled it, find a picture. But basically, I want to show you how to kind of navigate through barre chords and how the notes are set up on the neck. This is really basic, so you may already know this. If you do, you may want to skip the video. But for those of you out there that are just picking out the guitar, hopefully, this will help you.
So, basic ally, we are going to go ahead and establish the fact that strings from top, your base string, from high E to low E are E, A D, G, B and E. As far as tuning go that you might work with, if you have a drop D tuning, that just means you are dropping this low E down to the same is this, your D. So, you can actually just play them together and adjust your low E string down until it sounds pretty much the same.
You also might run into Eb tuning which is just where all your strings are tuned up half step. It is the same thing. Enough for that. Let us just get into the barre chords. Just like this is E, A, D, G, B, E. The notes on the neck of the guitar works just like the alphabet. They just start with the names. This string open is an E note. This is an A, D, G, B and E.
So, basically the way the alphabet goes, you have A, B, C, D, E, F, G. You guys all know that. On the guitar neck, there are two notes, two steps we could say between every note. Between A and B. Between C and D. Between D and E. Between F and G. Now the two letters are left out there were B and E. The reason I did that is because there is only one step between B and C, and E and F. So, what that means if you are kind of confused, I will go slow. We will take the E string for example. And all we are going to do is work our way through the alphabet, A through G. We are going to start at E. We are going to get the G. Once you get the G, you go back to A and start over.
So, this is your low E string.
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This is open. It is an E. So, if you hit at the 1st fret that is one step up, that is going to give you an F. It goes E and F then B and C. We do not have any steps in between them. So, you have your E, F, up two steps is the G. That note in between can either be called an F# or Gb. That is why you will never see sharps and flats -- I guess you will never see but for the most part, you will never see sharps and flats in the same songs.
So, you have E, F, 1st fret, F# to a G. Skip two, G, you go back to A. Two more to B on the 7th fret. The 8th fret between B, C. C, that sound like to go together. Like the Jaws theme song. 7th fret alright, here is your B, one step up to your C. two more to your D. Put it on the 10th fret. And then two more, puts you back in E.
So, open. Those are both E. So, there are 12 steps between the different notes. So, if you think about that, you can move up to the A string and go up to your alphabet. So, you have A string is open. So, you can think yourself were B with B. Two steps, with A and B. So, B will be on your 2nd fret. Then you move up one to like B and C. So, C is on the third. Two steps to the D on the 5th. Up two more from your D is your E on the 7th. Then between your E and your F, you have one step, so you go from E on the 7th to F on the 8th up to G on the 10th, and then two more and you are back on your A on the 12th. So, basically, one thing I think is good is if you are going to play it yourself. E, F, G A, B, C, D, E. And down the A string is A, B, C, D, E, F, G, A. And it is really going to be easy for you guys to learn because just like the alphabet, you just have to pick where you start.
The reason I am only going to do these two strings is because those are only the barre chords I am going to work with right now.
And the way we are going to work with barre chords is -- the first of the barre chords we are going to do is just going to be Major or Minor barre chords because those are the most common which I run into and you can get the rest of the barre chords from these four different barre chords I am going to show you. So, the formations go to your low E string.
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On the low E string, on the Major and Minor chords, you are going to be barring across all six strings. My strings are still raveling because I just changed them and I did really quick and did not do it right.
So, barre across all these and what I actually want you to start out with is to start out with an E chord. You all know what an E chord is. And E chord is where you put your, for this purpose, put your middle finger on the 4th string down, E, A, D, G string, on the 1st fret. So, that will actually sound like this --
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Now, I want you to take your ring finger and your pinky finger. I want you to put them on the A string and D string on the 2nd fret. So, basically, as you move down your top strings open, 2nd fret. Open, 2nd fret, 2nd fret, 1st fret, open, open.
Now, this is an E.
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So, a major E chord with an open position.
Now, you slide that up one fret and bar across all six, that is your F. And it is just like when we work up those notes because open E one step is an F. And that is what you are doing. You are going --
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So, one step for the F. The G, two steps. Slide everything up two steps and from the G, you go back to A, slide everything up two more steps. Two more steps from the B which you put it on the 7th fret.
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And it is like B and C at one step. So, you are going to slid it one step, put it on 8th fret. After the C, you got D, two steps up again.
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And then all the way up to the 12th fret with your barre.
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Puts you back on major E.
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