Danny Grady: This is an introduction to basic chords for the Guitar. So, now you have got this instrument here and you are not quite sure what to do with it. Maybe you can pick some single notes, but those groupings in notes also known as chords. It's a little a little bit tricky. You have got two things you are contending with. These new shapes and you are also trying to get your fingers strong enough at the same time to press down on all the notes simultaneously. So let's start with some basic chords. Let's start with some root fifth chords.
Root Fifth chords are only two notes, and they are really the Cornerstome in on rock music. One of the reasons, rock music is so popular because it's so easy to play.
Start out with an E5 and as we go along I will explain some of the basic concepts I use to finger the chords properly and make sure all my notes are clear. So an E5 is this. E is really popular on the Guitar. It is the lowest note, and often instrumentalists like banging on the lowest note that their instrument can make.
So, what I am doing is, basically, I am taking my first finger and I am placing it here at the second fret of the fifth string and I am using the very tip of my first finger and I am fretting it just before the fret. I am not fretting it back here. I am not fretting at the middle, I am fretting it just before the fret without actually touching the fret. And another thing I am doing is I am keeping my thumb behind where I am pressing.
I am pressing between my fingers and my thumb. Then I am going to hit the sixth string open and the fifth string at the same time with it. And that chord is E5.
Now, as far as picking specific strings, one of the things you can do and almost kind of trick yourself just to pick the right two strings, which you are going for the fifth string here, but you are going to hit the sixth string along away. So, your target is really the fifth string and you are just going to grab that sixth string as you are coming down.
Giles Martin: Hi, I am Giles Martin. I am here in Abbey Road Studio 2 to talk about Yellow Submarine. Now, Yellow Submarine was written as a children's song. It was written overnight by Paul for children very deliberately. Apparently he went around and read it to Donovan, and said, what do you think, and Donovan came up 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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