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Hey, how you're doing. Justin here 
for another Ukulele Lesson.

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Today we will be checkin out the
rest of your open chord grips

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So another nine chords today 
we'll be looking at.

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These ones are slightly harder than the 
open chords that we looked at last time

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But not much. Well some of them are. 
Some of them are a bit easier

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But a couple of them 
are a little bit trickier

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Make sure you got these other 
chords well under your fingers first

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Before you start to look at these ones.

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And let's go to a close-up, 
show how to play them.

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The first chord were going to look at 
today is an A-chord and its variations.

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So starting with "A" we start with the

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2nd finger in the 2nd fret of string 4


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then we put 1st finger, 1st fret of string 3,

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the other two strings are open so

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2nd fret,

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1st fret

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open, open

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(Plays A-chord)

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Very, very easy chord this one.

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Next one is one that we looked at 
in the intro to Uke-Playing lesson.

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We just lift off the the first finger and 
we got our A-minor chord.

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O.K. that's 2nd fret, open, open, open

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(Plays A-minor-chord)

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Doesn't matter what finger again

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Start with the second finger but it 
really could be any finger

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It doesn't really make much difference.

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And the last one of the "A"s ist the A7th

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Now we just got the 1st finger 
in the 1st fret of the 3rd string

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Open,1st fret, open, open

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You may certainly all be using
your first finger for this but

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you could try other fingers if you 
thought it was gonna be easier

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(Plays A7th-chord)

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Okay, so that's an A-chord. 
Very, very funky little chord

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Okay, let's move on to E-chord.

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Now, E is a little bit difficult.

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Not difficult, not terribly difficult.

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But a little bit tricky.

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So we got 1st finger, 1st fret 
of the 4th string

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then little finger is going in the 
4th fret of the 3rd string

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and 2nd finger is going in the 
2nd fret of the 1st string

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and the 2nd string is open.

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So, 1st fret, 4th fret, open, 2nd fret.

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(Plays E-chord)

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Feels a little bit awkward this
shaping for guitar players

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This is not a kind of a 
common guitar-shape.

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If you're new to it, you might find it a little difficulty

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getting the little finger to jump
over to that chord.

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So that the little finger to the 4th fret there.

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Not particularly difficult in
the grand scheme of things.

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It's a bit more awkward than some of
those that we've looked at so far

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But it's a very important chord - E-chord

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O.K. Lets look at E-minor now.

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Quite alot easier actually

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So we've got nothing on the 4th string

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3rd finger on the 4th fret 
of the 3rd string

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2nd finger, 3rd fret of the 2nd string

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and 1st finger in the 2nd fret 
of the 1st string

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That is our E-minor chord.

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You could use other fingers
but this is probably the one

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that you will start off most of the time.

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and that's E-minor.

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O.K. Now we look at E7th

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This is 1st finger 1st fret 
of the 4th string

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2nd finger 2nd fret of the 3rd string

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open second string

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and 3rd finger going down
in the 2nd fret of the 1st string

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(Plays E7th-chord)

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This is a really common Uke-grip

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So this is a good one to learn.

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Now, guitar-players might find it easier to

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play it like it was kind of the 
top part of a B7th-chord

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using the 1st finger and then 
the 3rd finger and the little finger

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Most commonly I think it's playing using fingers 1, 2 and 3

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Most of these grips, you know, you 
can change the fingering round.

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It's all relatively simple.

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So that would be our "E"-chords.

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Now last thing we're looking at "D"-chords

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Now D-major chord means that we have to get

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Three fingers all wedged into the 2nd fret

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It's a little bit awkward

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2nd finger 2nd fret of the 4th string,

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3rd finger 2nd fret of the 3rd string,

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little finger 2nd fret of the 2nd string.

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2nd fret, 2nd fret, 2nd fret, open.

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(Plays D-chord)

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Again it's a really common chord.

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It's just a little bit tricky.

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It's getting your fingers to cram in there

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You could use fingers 1, 2 and 3.

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But I really struggle with that to 
try and get my fingers in there.

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You could use the kind of an "A"-grip 
that I teach in the beginner's course.

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That's using the 2nd finger on
the 2nd fret of string 4,

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1st finger underneath on the
2nd fret of the 3rd string

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and then 3rd finger on the
2nd fret of the 2nd string.

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It feels quite difficult because
those fingers are a lot bigger.

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I'd highly recommend in that 
instant using fingers 2, 3, 4.

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But again you might try some other stuff.

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I see some guys doing this as a little bar

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You can get away with that some times
using 2nd, 2nd, 2nd fret, open

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but you have to find your
right length of bar there.

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Which can be a little bit tricky.

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I tend to play it like this myself, it's 
up to you to find what works for you

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Now the minor chord D-minor.

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To guitar players it looks
a little bit like A-minor.

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we've got 2nd fret, 2nd fret, 
1st fret, open

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2nd finger in the 2nd fret of the 4th string

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3rd finger 2nd fret of the 3rd string

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and 1st finger 1st fret of the 2nd string.

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(Plays D-minor)

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That's D-minor.

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And lastly we got D7th, nice and 
easy one to finish off with.

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2nd finger, 2nd fret of the 4th string

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open 3rd string

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3rd finger, 2nd fret, 2nd string

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and then open first string.

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(Plays D7th-chord)

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Again you could be changing the fingering
around it wouldn't really matter

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Fingers 2 and 3 are those that I tend to
use most often with this particular grip

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So now you should know all of the 
common open chord grips.

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For the major, minor and 
dominant seventh chords

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I'm shure some of you are probably 
wondering what happened to B.

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Cause we'd looked at C-major, D-major, 
E-major, F-major, G-major, A-major but not B

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Well B is kind of like a little bar-chord,

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it's a little trickier and it's a 
moveable chord shape.

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So that's something that we're going to be
looking at in a future lesson

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But we're not going to be 
looking at it just yet.

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Big important things to do here:

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One, check out the chords relationships 
and make shure that your

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playing like, you know, D and Dmin and D7 
and see how they are similar.

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That will really help you remember them

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And also really important is that you .
put them to use by learning some songs

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Can't stress this enough, it's really

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the best way to go about learning 
your new chords is to

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put them into a song rightaway.

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So find some songs that are using 
the chords that you already know

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and just one or two of the new ones.

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See if you can blend them together a
little bit and get them under your fingers

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Cause that's the way to go about 
learning your chords

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Not to just try and learn hundreds of 
chords that you are never going to use.

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That's a real waste of time, you know, 
that's to be avoided.

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Learn the chords that you need to play
the songs that you want to play.

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That's what you want to be after

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Hope you have fun with all of 
those new chords

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and I'll see you for plenty more guitar-
and uke-lessons very soon.

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Take care of yourselves!
Bye, Bye!