Hey, how you're doing. Justin here for another Ukulele Lesson.
Today we will be checkin out the rest of your open chord grips
So another nine chords today we'll be looking at.
These ones are slightly harder than the open chords that we looked at last time
But not much. Well some of them are. Some of them are a bit easier
But a couple of them are a little bit trickier
Make sure you got these other chords well under your fingers first
Before you start to look at these ones.
And let's go to a close-up, show how to play them.
The first chord were going to look at today is an A-chord and its variations.
So starting with "A" we start with the
2nd finger in the 2nd fret of string 4
then we put 1st finger, 1st fret of string 3,
the other two strings are open so
2nd fret,
1st fret
open, open
(Plays A-chord)
Very, very easy chord this one.
Next one is one that we looked at in the intro to Uke-Playing lesson.
We just lift off the the first finger and we got our A-minor chord.
O.K. that's 2nd fret, open, open, open
(Plays A-minor-chord)
Doesn't matter what finger again
Start with the second finger but it really could be any finger
It doesn't really make much difference.
And the last one of the "A"s ist the A7th
Now we just got the 1st finger in the 1st fret of the 3rd string
Open,1st fret, open, open
You may certainly all be using your first finger for this but
you could try other fingers if you thought it was gonna be easier
(Plays A7th-chord)
Okay, so that's an A-chord. Very, very funky little chord
Okay, let's move on to E-chord.
Now, E is a little bit difficult.
Not difficult, not terribly difficult.
But a little bit tricky.
So we got 1st finger, 1st fret of the 4th string
then little finger is going in the 4th fret of the 3rd string
and 2nd finger is going in the 2nd fret of the 1st string
and the 2nd string is open.
So, 1st fret, 4th fret, open, 2nd fret.
(Plays E-chord)
Feels a little bit awkward this shaping for guitar players
This is not a kind of a common guitar-shape.
If you're new to it, you might find it a little difficulty
getting the little finger to jump over to that chord.
So that the little finger to the 4th fret there.
Not particularly difficult in the grand scheme of things.
It's a bit more awkward than some of those that we've looked at so far
But it's a very important chord - E-chord
O.K. Lets look at E-minor now.
Quite alot easier actually
So we've got nothing on the 4th string
3rd finger on the 4th fret of the 3rd string
2nd finger, 3rd fret of the 2nd string
and 1st finger in the 2nd fret of the 1st string
That is our E-minor chord.
You could use other fingers but this is probably the one
that you will start off most of the time.
and that's E-minor.
O.K. Now we look at E7th
This is 1st finger 1st fret of the 4th string
2nd finger 2nd fret of the 3rd string
open second string
and 3rd finger going down in the 2nd fret of the 1st string
(Plays E7th-chord)
This is a really common Uke-grip
So this is a good one to learn.
Now, guitar-players might find it easier to
play it like it was kind of the top part of a B7th-chord
using the 1st finger and then the 3rd finger and the little finger
Most commonly I think it's playing using fingers 1, 2 and 3
Most of these grips, you know, you can change the fingering round.
It's all relatively simple.
So that would be our "E"-chords.
Now last thing we're looking at "D"-chords
Now D-major chord means that we have to get
Three fingers all wedged into the 2nd fret
It's a little bit awkward
2nd finger 2nd fret of the 4th string,
3rd finger 2nd fret of the 3rd string,
little finger 2nd fret of the 2nd string.
2nd fret, 2nd fret, 2nd fret, open.
(Plays D-chord)
Again it's a really common chord.
It's just a little bit tricky.
It's getting your fingers to cram in there
You could use fingers 1, 2 and 3.
But I really struggle with that to try and get my fingers in there.
You could use the kind of an "A"-grip that I teach in the beginner's course.
That's using the 2nd finger on the 2nd fret of string 4,
1st finger underneath on the 2nd fret of the 3rd string
and then 3rd finger on the 2nd fret of the 2nd string.
It feels quite difficult because those fingers are a lot bigger.
I'd highly recommend in that instant using fingers 2, 3, 4.
But again you might try some other stuff.
I see some guys doing this as a little bar
You can get away with that some times using 2nd, 2nd, 2nd fret, open
but you have to find your right length of bar there.
Which can be a little bit tricky.
I tend to play it like this myself, it's up to you to find what works for you
Now the minor chord D-minor.
To guitar players it looks a little bit like A-minor.
we've got 2nd fret, 2nd fret, 1st fret, open
2nd finger in the 2nd fret of the 4th string
3rd finger 2nd fret of the 3rd string
and 1st finger 1st fret of the 2nd string.
(Plays D-minor)
That's D-minor.
And lastly we got D7th, nice and easy one to finish off with.
2nd finger, 2nd fret of the 4th string
open 3rd string
3rd finger, 2nd fret, 2nd string
and then open first string.
(Plays D7th-chord)
Again you could be changing the fingering around it wouldn't really matter
Fingers 2 and 3 are those that I tend to use most often with this particular grip
So now you should know all of the common open chord grips.
For the major, minor and dominant seventh chords
I'm shure some of you are probably wondering what happened to B.
Cause we'd looked at C-major, D-major, E-major, F-major, G-major, A-major but not B
Well B is kind of like a little bar-chord,
it's a little trickier and it's a moveable chord shape.
So that's something that we're going to be looking at in a future lesson
But we're not going to be looking at it just yet.
Big important things to do here:
One, check out the chords relationships and make shure that your
playing like, you know, D and Dmin and D7 and see how they are similar.
That will really help you remember them
And also really important is that you . put them to use by learning some songs
Can't stress this enough, it's really
the best way to go about learning your new chords is to
put them into a song rightaway.
So find some songs that are using the chords that you already know
and just one or two of the new ones.
See if you can blend them together a little bit and get them under your fingers
Cause that's the way to go about learning your chords
Not to just try and learn hundreds of chords that you are never going to use.
That's a real waste of time, you know, that's to be avoided.
Learn the chords that you need to play the songs that you want to play.
That's what you want to be after
Hope you have fun with all of those new chords
and I'll see you for plenty more guitar- and uke-lessons very soon.
Take care of yourselves! Bye, Bye!