So in our last segment we looked at first chord, which is an E major chord. We have talked about how to had those fingers and then listening for potential problems as we play the chord, one note at a time. Let's talk about what those potential problems are and how we can solve them.
One problem, if we were having a buzzing note or a dead note can be not pressing down with the tip of the finger. So for getting a bad note, let's say the sixth string on this chord is ringing just fine and I get to the fifth string, it can be that I am not pressing it down with the tip of my finger or it can be that I am too far back on the fret and just sliding that forward to fix that.
So those are things that you can usually fix fairly quickly but getting a long term solution to it can mean building up some muscle memory by trying it over and over, putting the chord down, making sure that each finger and string is sounding good.
Let's say that you are playing through the chord and you get a dead string, that's an open string. It's not supposed to have any fingers on it. In this case, my second string isn't ringing. The problem here is that my first finger is leaning back too far and so it's deadening this open second string.
So what I need to do is arch my fingers little bit more. Maybe bring my thumb back behind a little bit so that I can allow that second string to ring open. So that was just a matter of straightening up my fingers that they came down and move in arched fashion.
So those are the basic two problems that you can run into. So we have looked at an E major, we are strumming all six strings for that. The next chord let's a take a look at is a G major chord. There is several different ways you will see people finger this and a lot of times, chords can have what's called different voicing and that's where you can use multiple fingerings for the same chord.
So we will look at the most common fingering of this G chord to start off with. For this one we'll have the first finger on the second fret of the fifth string. The second finger reaching over to the third fret of the sixth string. Now I am having to reach all the way across the neck for this and those that my thumb is back behind here, it's enable to me to reach. If I am up here, it's very difficult to get these guys all the way over there.
So I have got these two fingers, second fret and third fret. The third finger is going to curve back behind and hit the third fret of the second string. Then the fourth finger is going to hit the third fret of the first string. Notice that all these fingers are on the tips and nice and arched. This chord will also be strumming all six strings or you just want to make sure as we pick through that note by note, that each string including the two open strings in the middle are ringing clearly.
So we will look at the rest of our fingerings in our next segment.
G chord, C chord, A minor and D chord make up the song. I can leave my first and second finger in place and my ring finger slides into the second fret of the third string.
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