Learn To Play Guitar: Chordal Fills Part 1

Tim Huffman: This lesson is going to be on Chord Transitions, and of course for a beginning guitarist, fretting up a chord is one of the first challenges that you come up against. You know as you do it that you have got to kind of find that sweet spot in the fret, so that you don't get a buzz, and you get all the notes clean, and over time you find that, okay, hey, I can do these chords, but the issue is I can't really switch quick enough because I have got to move my hand.

What you have noticed when you are watching a great musician play is they seem to have this very fluid motion, where they are not wasting much time, there is not a lot of effort in releasing their fingers.

So what I am going to show you today is a concept that will help you close the gap as you change from chord to chord. We are going to do really two things. We are going to talk about a Guide Finger and Pivot Finger. Let me start with the Guide.

If you look at this G chord I have got framed up here, as I switch to D7, you will notice that what I can do is leave my ring finger, leave my third finger on. So rather than release all the fingers, I am going to use my ring finger to guide me into that transition from G to D7 and then back from D7 to G. So a really simply concept, but you would be surprised how powerful it is when you leave a finger in contact with the fret board. So there is the Guide.

Giles Martin: Hi! I am Giles Martin. I am here at Abbey Road Studio 2 to talk about the Yellow Submarine. Now, Yellow Submarine was written as a children song. It was written overnight by Paul for children very deliberately. Apparently, he went around and play this to Donovan and said, what do you think, and Donovan came with the lyrics, "Sky of blue and sea of green".

Rob Schumann: A G major and then a D7, so it's the first finger on the first fret of the second string.


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