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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!