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

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

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

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

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

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But a couple of them [br]are a little bit trickier

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Make sure you got these other [br]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, [br]show how to play them.

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The first chord were going to look at [br]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[br]

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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 [br]in the intro to Uke-Playing lesson.

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We just lift off the the first finger and [br]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 [br]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 [br]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[br]your first finger for this but

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

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(Plays A7th-chord)

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Okay, so that's an A-chord. [br]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 [br]of the 4th string

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

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and 2nd finger is going in the [br]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[br]shaping for guitar players

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This is not a kind of a [br]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[br]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[br]the grand scheme of things.

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It's a bit more awkward than some of[br]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 [br]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 [br]of the 1st string

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That is our E-minor chord.

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You could use other fingers[br]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 [br]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[br]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 [br]top part of a B7th-chord

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using the 1st finger and then [br]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 [br]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 [br]try and get my fingers in there.

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

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

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

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

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

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I'd highly recommend in that [br]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[br]using 2nd, 2nd, 2nd fret, open

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but you have to find your[br]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 [br]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[br]a little bit like A-minor.

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we've got 2nd fret, 2nd fret, [br]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 [br]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[br]around it wouldn't really matter

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

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

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For the major, minor and [br]dominant seventh chords

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

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Cause we'd looked at C-major, D-major, [br]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 [br]moveable chord shape.

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

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But we're not going to be [br]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 [br]and make shure that your

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playing like, you know, D and Dmin and D7 [br]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 .[br]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 [br]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 [br]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[br]little bit and get them under your fingers

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

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

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

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Learn the chords that you need to play[br]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 [br]those new chords

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

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Take care of yourselves![br]Bye, Bye!