What is going on guys? This is actually a request and it is by Jack Johnson and this song is called “Cupid”. First time I heard this, it is really a short song. This song I just met along from what I found in YouTube but I like the way it sounds. There are five chords that you are going to use. The five chords are an A, an Am 7, an E, an F#m and a Bm7.
Do not worry how these are, I going to have the shapes and the information box over here. So, basically the way I am going to have if you may have a picture and it is going to have and you are going to see string E, A, D, G, B, E and it is going to have the chord name and out from it, it is going to have numbers, like for the A for example, I am just going to play the A barre chord. So, it going to be 5, 7, 7, 6, 5, 5. Basically what that means, it is showing you where to put your fingers. So, the first one is 5, it means you are going to have it here. This is the barre chord, you are going to barre it all the way across. Then the next string down, your A string is at 7 so you put your ring finger at 7, 7, 6, then 5, 5 because you are barred.
So, that is how that works. If you are confused and still do not understand, message me I will teach you.
But the way it starts out is because on how many times was needed once you go through this. It starts with an A, it goes --
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And then switches to the Am7 which all you do for that where it is here were 5, 7, 7, 6, 5, 5. All you are going to do is take this pinky finger off the 7th fret on your D string and move this middle finger up to the 2nd fret. Well, it will be 6th fret but it is the 1st fret above your bar.
So, this second chord, you are going to have 5, 7with your ring and the pointer barred across the 5, 7, 6, 5, 5, 5. So, that goes like this.
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So, all you have to do is pick that pinky up and move your ringer finger up one string.
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And then you move down to an E. I think the easiest way to play it is if you just keep the middle finger where it was in the beginning of the first from the A.
Your ring finger and your pinky finger are actually on the strings and need to be on slide down here for E like this.
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If you keep these two fingers here, your ring finger is always staying on the A string 2nd string down and if you try to keep your pinky on the 3rd string down the whole time with the exception of that 2nd chord, what you will have to do is go from this E to the 3rd chord to the 4th chord which is actually an F#m.
So, the F#m, if you keep this ring finger here on the 2nd string, your pinky on the 3rd string that allows you to have a kind of a place holder.
We will play those four chords together really quick. So, what we are going to do is to we are going to play first this A barre chord and you are going to go--
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And you are going to take that pinky off and move your middle finger up.
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And then slide down. You keep that ring finger on the same string as you slide down your pinky slides right behind it and your ring finger is going to slide here on the E, A, D, G string on the 1st fret, so you have your E chord.
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Once you have your E chord here , all you are going to do is slide these two fingers up to the 4th fret and put your bar down
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So, that is your F#m. So, this is going to go--
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That is basically the chord transitions. The chords are here. The key thing I want you to think of is to try and keep this middle finger. It is going to be on this string the whole time because on the 1st one it is here. And it is there on the second and the E is down here.
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If you keep that finger there, it is going to give you a place holder kind of to where the other fingers go. So, one more time.
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If you watch that, you can see that finger moves. That is the first time through, actually three lines through then there is a Bm7 in there where it like, “Cupid only misses sometimes,” he goes from E, F#m to a Bm7.
The Bm7, you are only going to play thes
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