WEBVTT 00:00:05.373 --> 00:00:08.663 Hey, how you're doing. Justin here for another Ukulele Lesson. 00:00:08.663 --> 00:00:11.783 Today we will be checkin out the rest of your open chord grips 00:00:11.783 --> 00:00:14.403 So another nine chords today we'll be looking at. 00:00:14.403 --> 00:00:17.673 These ones are slightly harder than the open chords that we looked at last time 00:00:17.673 --> 00:00:20.783 But not much. Well some of them are. Some of them are a bit easier 00:00:20.793 --> 00:00:22.833 But a couple of them are a little bit trickier 00:00:22.833 --> 00:00:25.443 Make sure you got these other chords well under your fingers first 00:00:25.443 --> 00:00:27.633 Before you start to look at these ones. 00:00:27.633 --> 00:00:30.113 And let's go to a close-up, show how to play them. 00:00:30.113 --> 00:00:33.963 The first chord were going to look at today is an A-chord and its variations. 00:00:33.982 --> 00:00:36.312 So starting with "A" we start with the 00:00:36.312 --> 00:00:39.872 2nd finger in the 2nd fret of string 4 00:00:39.872 --> 00:00:43.872 then we put 1st finger, 1st fret of string 3, 00:00:43.872 --> 00:00:45.912 the other two strings are open so 00:00:45.912 --> 00:00:46.962 2nd fret, 00:00:46.962 --> 00:00:48.152 1st fret 00:00:48.152 --> 00:00:49.522 open, open 00:00:49.522 --> 00:00:53.052 (Plays A-chord) 00:00:53.092 --> 00:00:55.032 Very, very easy chord this one. 00:00:55.032 --> 00:00:59.642 Next one is one that we looked at in the intro to Uke-Playing lesson. 00:00:59.642 --> 00:01:03.192 We just lift off the the first finger and we got our A-minor chord. 00:01:03.192 --> 00:01:06.867 O.K. that's 2nd fret, open, open, open 00:01:06.867 --> 00:01:09.707 (Plays A-minor-chord) 00:01:09.707 --> 00:01:13.937 Doesn't matter what finger again 00:01:13.937 --> 00:01:16.547 Start with the second finger but it really could be any finger 00:01:16.547 --> 00:01:18.527 It doesn't really make much difference. 00:01:18.527 --> 00:01:21.877 And the last one of the "A"s ist the A7th 00:01:21.877 --> 00:01:26.777 Now we just got the 1st finger in the 1st fret of the 3rd string 00:01:26.777 --> 00:01:30.357 Open,1st fret, open, open 00:01:30.357 --> 00:01:32.867 You may certainly all be using your first finger for this but 00:01:32.867 --> 00:01:36.317 you could try other fingers if you thought it was gonna be easier 00:01:36.317 --> 00:01:39.187 (Plays A7th-chord) 00:01:39.197 --> 00:01:41.877 Okay, so that's an A-chord. Very, very funky little chord 00:01:41.877 --> 00:01:44.387 Okay, let's move on to E-chord. 00:01:44.387 --> 00:01:46.337 Now, E is a little bit difficult. 00:01:47.897 --> 00:01:50.177 Not difficult, not terribly difficult. 00:01:50.177 --> 00:01:51.697 But a little bit tricky. 00:01:51.697 --> 00:01:55.387 So we got 1st finger, 1st fret of the 4th string 00:01:55.767 --> 00:01:59.537 then little finger is going in the 4th fret of the 3rd string 00:01:59.537 --> 00:02:04.417 and 2nd finger is going in the 2nd fret of the 1st string 00:02:04.417 --> 00:02:06.217 and the 2nd string is open. 00:02:06.217 --> 00:02:11.027 So, 1st fret, 4th fret, open, 2nd fret. 00:02:11.027 --> 00:02:13.257 (Plays E-chord) 00:02:13.257 --> 00:02:15.997 Feels a little bit awkward this shaping for guitar players 00:02:15.997 --> 00:02:18.388 This is not a kind of a common guitar-shape. 00:02:18.388 --> 00:02:20.438 If you're new to it, you might find it a little difficulty 00:02:20.438 --> 00:02:23.668 getting the little finger to jump over to that chord. 00:02:23.668 --> 00:02:26.058 So that the little finger to the 4th fret there. 00:02:26.662 --> 00:02:29.262 Not particularly difficult in the grand scheme of things. 00:02:29.262 --> 00:02:32.602 It's a bit more awkward than some of those that we've looked at so far 00:02:32.602 --> 00:02:35.852 But it's a very important chord - E-chord 00:02:35.852 --> 00:02:37.822 O.K. Lets look at E-minor now. 00:02:39.220 --> 00:02:40.740 Quite alot easier actually 00:02:40.740 --> 00:02:42.700 So we've got nothing on the 4th string 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:46.260 3rd finger on the 4th fret of the 3rd string 00:02:46.260 --> 00:02:49.300 2nd finger, 3rd fret of the 2nd string 00:02:49.300 --> 00:02:53.200 and 1st finger in the 2nd fret of the 1st string 00:02:54.760 --> 00:02:57.460 That is our E-minor chord. 00:02:57.460 --> 00:02:59.840 You could use other fingers but this is probably the one 00:02:59.840 --> 00:03:02.420 that you will start off most of the time. 00:03:02.420 --> 00:03:04.170 and that's E-minor. 00:03:04.170 --> 00:03:07.600 O.K. Now we look at E7th 00:03:07.600 --> 00:03:12.070 This is 1st finger 1st fret of the 4th string 00:03:12.070 --> 00:03:15.507 2nd finger 2nd fret of the 3rd string 00:03:16.241 --> 00:03:18.111 open second string 00:03:18.111 --> 00:03:21.831 and 3rd finger going down in the 2nd fret of the 1st string 00:03:21.831 --> 00:03:24.831 (Plays E7th-chord) 00:03:24.870 --> 00:03:26.640 This is a really common Uke-grip 00:03:26.640 --> 00:03:28.780 So this is a good one to learn. 00:03:29.100 --> 00:03:31.890 Now, guitar-players might find it easier to 00:03:31.890 --> 00:03:34.740 play it like it was kind of the top part of a B7th-chord 00:03:34.740 --> 00:03:38.740 using the 1st finger and then the 3rd finger and the little finger 00:03:40.860 --> 00:03:44.450 Most commonly I think it's playing using fingers 1, 2 and 3 00:03:44.450 --> 00:03:47.220 Most of these grips, you know, you can change the fingering round. 00:03:47.220 --> 00:03:49.110 It's all relatively simple. 00:03:49.110 --> 00:03:51.300 So that would be our "E"-chords. 00:03:51.300 --> 00:03:53.580 Now last thing we're looking at "D"-chords 00:03:53.580 --> 00:03:56.570 Now D-major chord means that we have to get 00:03:56.570 --> 00:04:00.570 Three fingers all wedged into the 2nd fret 00:04:00.570 --> 00:04:02.400 It's a little bit awkward 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:05.750 2nd finger 2nd fret of the 4th string, 00:04:05.750 --> 00:04:08.240 3rd finger 2nd fret of the 3rd string, 00:04:08.240 --> 00:04:11.410 little finger 2nd fret of the 2nd string. 00:04:13.175 --> 00:04:16.345 2nd fret, 2nd fret, 2nd fret, open. 00:04:16.345 --> 00:04:19.035 (Plays D-chord) 00:04:19.035 --> 00:04:21.085 Again it's a really common chord. 00:04:21.095 --> 00:04:22.915 It's just a little bit tricky. 00:04:22.915 --> 00:04:24.795 It's getting your fingers to cram in there 00:04:24.795 --> 00:04:26.895 You could use fingers 1, 2 and 3. 00:04:26.899 --> 00:04:30.039 But I really struggle with that to try and get my fingers in there. 00:04:30.055 --> 00:04:34.055 You could use the kind of an "A"-grip that I teach in the beginner's course. 00:04:34.055 --> 00:04:37.485 That's using the 2nd finger on the 2nd fret of string 4, 00:04:37.485 --> 00:04:41.485 1st finger underneath on the 2nd fret of the 3rd string 00:04:41.487 --> 00:04:46.227 and then 3rd finger on the 2nd fret of the 2nd string. 00:04:47.275 --> 00:04:50.195 It feels quite difficult because those fingers are a lot bigger. 00:04:50.205 --> 00:04:54.005 I'd highly recommend in that instant using fingers 2, 3, 4. 00:04:54.439 --> 00:04:56.579 But again you might try some other stuff. 00:04:56.579 --> 00:05:00.149 I see some guys doing this as a little bar 00:05:00.149 --> 00:05:04.569 You can get away with that some times using 2nd, 2nd, 2nd fret, open 00:05:04.879 --> 00:05:07.679 but you have to find your right length of bar there. 00:05:07.679 --> 00:05:09.499 Which can be a little bit tricky. 00:05:09.499 --> 00:05:13.409 I tend to play it like this myself, it's up to you to find what works for you 00:05:13.469 --> 00:05:16.699 Now the minor chord D-minor. 00:05:16.699 --> 00:05:19.509 To guitar players it looks a little bit like A-minor. 00:05:19.509 --> 00:05:22.619 we've got 2nd fret, 2nd fret, 1st fret, open 00:05:22.619 --> 00:05:25.519 2nd finger in the 2nd fret of the 4th string 00:05:26.339 --> 00:05:29.119 3rd finger 2nd fret of the 3rd string 00:05:29.119 --> 00:05:31.039 and 1st finger 1st fret of the 2nd string. 00:05:31.039 --> 00:05:33.519 (Plays D-minor) 00:05:33.519 --> 00:05:35.199 That's D-minor. 00:05:37.087 --> 00:05:40.967 And lastly we got D7th, nice and easy one to finish off with. 00:05:40.967 --> 00:05:44.547 2nd finger, 2nd fret of the 4th string 00:05:44.547 --> 00:05:45.997 open 3rd string 00:05:45.997 --> 00:05:48.537 3rd finger, 2nd fret, 2nd string 00:05:48.734 --> 00:05:50.316 and then open first string. 00:05:50.316 --> 00:05:52.956 (Plays D7th-chord) 00:05:52.956 --> 00:05:56.236 Again you could be changing the fingering around it wouldn't really matter 00:05:56.316 --> 00:06:01.086 Fingers 2 and 3 are those that I tend to use most often with this particular grip 00:06:03.101 --> 00:06:06.881 So now you should know all of the common open chord grips. 00:06:06.881 --> 00:06:10.351 For the major, minor and dominant seventh chords 00:06:10.771 --> 00:06:13.732 I'm shure some of you are probably wondering what happened to B. 00:06:14.023 --> 00:06:19.903 Cause we'd looked at C-major, D-major, E-major, F-major, G-major, A-major but not B 00:06:19.903 --> 00:06:22.393 Well B is kind of like a little bar-chord, 00:06:22.393 --> 00:06:24.803 it's a little trickier and it's a moveable chord shape. 00:06:24.803 --> 00:06:27.693 So that's something that we're going to be looking at in a future lesson 00:06:27.695 --> 00:06:29.545 But we're not going to be looking at it just yet. 00:06:30.889 --> 00:06:32.919 Big important things to do here: 00:06:32.919 --> 00:06:35.679 One, check out the chords relationships and make shure that your 00:06:35.679 --> 00:06:39.329 playing like, you know, D and Dmin and D7 and see how they are similar. 00:06:39.569 --> 00:06:41.239 That will really help you remember them 00:06:41.329 --> 00:06:45.089 And also really important is that you . put them to use by learning some songs 00:06:45.359 --> 00:06:47.509 Can't stress this enough, it's really 00:06:47.509 --> 00:06:49.959 the best way to go about learning your new chords is to 00:06:49.959 --> 00:06:51.469 put them into a song rightaway. 00:06:51.469 --> 00:06:54.069 So find some songs that are using the chords that you already know 00:06:54.069 --> 00:06:55.819 and just one or two of the new ones. 00:06:55.819 --> 00:06:58.359 See if you can blend them together a little bit and get them under your fingers 00:06:58.359 --> 00:07:01.389 Cause that's the way to go about learning your chords 00:07:01.389 --> 00:07:04.399 Not to just try and learn hundreds of chords that you are never going to use. 00:07:04.399 --> 00:07:06.929 That's a real waste of time, you know, that's to be avoided. 00:07:07.095 --> 00:07:10.695 Learn the chords that you need to play the songs that you want to play. 00:07:11.559 --> 00:07:13.099 That's what you want to be after 00:07:13.099 --> 00:07:14.869 Hope you have fun with all of those new chords 00:07:14.869 --> 00:07:17.599 and I'll see you for plenty more guitar- and uke-lessons very soon. 00:07:17.959 --> 00:07:19.379 Take care of yourselves! Bye, Bye!