G Chord Variations (Guitar Lesson BC-181) Guitar for beginners Stage 8
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0:06 - 0:07Hi! How you doing, Justin here.
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0:07 - 0:11Welcome to Stage 8
of your guitar beginners course. -
0:11 - 0:13I'm sure
you're gonna be enjoying this one, -
0:13 - 0:17cause, what we're gonna be checkin' out,
is a few variations of a G chord. -
0:17 - 0:20I've shown you one, kind of,
standard way of playing G chord, -
0:20 - 0:23but there's quite a few,
that are really, really useful -
0:23 - 0:25in specific circumstances.
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0:25 - 0:28And you'll find, as you play more
and learn more songs, -
0:28 - 0:30that you think:
"I wish there was an easier way of doing this" -
0:30 - 0:35Now we are going to learn
easier ways of doing the G chord. -
0:35 - 0:38So let's go to a close up now,
and I'll show you these -
0:38 - 0:41other ways of doing this
very, very common chord. -
0:43 - 0:47Ok, here we are for our first G chord variation,
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0:47 - 0:48I call this a "big G".
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0:48 - 0:53And if you look,
there was our standard regular G chord -
0:53 - 0:54just using the three fingers.
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0:54 - 0:56All we've done here
is move the third finger -
0:56 - 0:59over on to the B string, the second string.
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0:59 - 1:02And the little finger
has gone where that third finger used to be. -
1:02 - 1:04So you see now,
we're using all four fingers, -
1:04 - 1:07if I just give it a strum..
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1:07 - 1:09It's a really good sounding G chord.
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1:09 - 1:13All we've done in fact is
change the open B string, -
1:13 - 1:16obviously, the note B, into a D note.
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1:16 - 1:20Which is still keeping our G chord,
still named a regular G, -
1:20 - 1:22cause we're only using notes G, B and D.
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1:22 - 1:29This chord is particularly famous
in Guns'n'Roses, and Poison, -
1:29 - 1:32and Bon Jovi in the 80's.
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1:32 - 1:36All that acoustic guitar rock stuff
all of the acoustic guitar songs -
1:36 - 1:39nearly always used this version of the G chord.
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1:39 - 1:42And it does sound a little bit bigger
and kind of more poppy or rocky -
1:42 - 1:45than the original G.
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1:45 - 1:48But there is one version
which is considered even rockier one. -
1:48 - 1:50Which we're gonna go to now.
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1:50 - 1:53So here is our big rock G.
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1:53 - 1:56All I've done is... The last one
that I just told you I called "Big G" -
1:56 - 2:00All I've done is
lifted of my first finger and now it's suddenly a rock G. -
2:00 - 2:04And the reason this sounds more rocky,
and I've actualy renamed it as being a G5, -
2:04 - 2:08It's because it now only
contains the notes G and D. -
2:08 - 2:12We don't have any more
the note B involved with this chord. -
2:12 - 2:15If we looked at the notes one at a time,
we've got a G here, -
2:15 - 2:20the A string is muted
by the underneath of that second finger. -
2:20 - 2:23That finger is muting that string.
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2:23 - 2:29Then we've got open D,
open G, then another D and another G. -
2:29 - 2:35And this is a big rock chord,
with distortion this chord sounds huge. -
2:35 - 2:38It's very, very cool, indeed.
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2:38 - 2:42There is another very common way of playing a G chord.
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2:42 - 2:44Which is a little bit more funky
than anything else. -
2:44 - 2:45You tend to use it
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2:45 - 2:48when you're changing from a C chord
to a G chord very quickly. -
2:48 - 2:49Which is quite common,
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2:49 - 2:53because the C and the G chord
occur very regularly together. -
2:53 - 2:56There's your regular C chord.
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2:56 - 3:00If we want to go to this new G chord,
all you're doing is just splitting -
3:00 - 3:03your third and fourth fingers
on to the two outside strings. -
3:03 - 3:07This can be a little bit tricky,
especially when you're starting out. -
3:07 - 3:10But have a go, because it
does make changing C to G a lot quicker -
3:10 - 3:13These two fingers I'm pointing out
just to keep them out of the way -
3:13 - 3:15but you would normally
just leave them hanging around. -
3:15 - 3:18I didn't want you to get confused
and think they were down. -
3:18 - 3:21What we've got here is
the third finger over on the thickest string -
3:21 - 3:24and it's a lot flatter than normal
and that's deliberately -
3:24 - 3:27to make sure that that string there is muted.
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3:27 - 3:30The same as what we had
at that rockin' G, -
3:30 - 3:33but this time
we're getting rid of that A string there -
3:33 - 3:34It's muted by the third finger.
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3:34 - 3:37Open D string.
Open G, open B -
3:37 - 3:41and little finger down there
playing the top note - G as well. -
3:41 - 3:45So this is a full G chord,
but you can see, if I'm changing from C to G -
3:45 - 3:47There's C. There's our new G.
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3:47 - 3:49C, G
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3:52 - 3:55And that used to be one of the hardest changes,
all fingers off. -
3:55 - 3:58Now it's a lot easier.
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3:58 - 4:01There's some people that put
actually that second finger -
4:01 - 4:07and play the same dots
as that initial G that we learned -
4:07 - 4:09just without the first finger.
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4:09 - 4:11That's ok,
a lot of people like that -
4:11 - 4:14and that's fine to play it that way,
I just think that this note -
4:14 - 4:16is a little bit redundant
and if I play this one (strum) -
4:16 - 4:20and then without it (strum)
we hear very little difference, -
4:20 - 4:24but it's a hell of a lot easier
to play it like that. -
4:25 - 4:27Now the important thing
with these new G chord variations, -
4:27 - 4:31is making sure,
that you use them in the right circumstance. -
4:31 - 4:34Particularly the big G and the rock G
worked really, really well -
4:34 - 4:37doing chord changes
going from G to D. -
4:37 - 4:40But I'm gonna explain that a little bit better
in the one minute changes. -
4:40 - 4:43So just get your fingers around these chords
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4:43 - 4:46and I'll see you for another bit of a lesson
very soon. -
4:46 - 4:50Bye - bye!
- Title:
- G Chord Variations (Guitar Lesson BC-181) Guitar for beginners Stage 8
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Justin's Completely Free, Beginners Guitar Course Lesson BC-181.
This is Stage 8, Lesson 1.This video shows you some very common variation on the G chord. There are lots of ways to play this depending on the circumstance, and you can choose which you use when...
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- Video Language:
- English
- Team:
- JustinGuitar (legacy)
- Project:
- Beginners Course (BC)
- Duration:
- 04:50
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