WEBVTT 00:00:05.558 --> 00:00:07.222 Hi! How you doing, Justin here. 00:00:07.222 --> 00:00:11.138 Welcome to Stage 8 of your guitar beginners course. 00:00:11.138 --> 00:00:13.017 I'm sure you're gonna be enjoying this one, 00:00:13.017 --> 00:00:16.723 cause, what we're gonna be checkin' out, is a few variations of a G chord. 00:00:16.723 --> 00:00:20.500 I've shown you one, kind of, standard way of playing G chord, 00:00:20.500 --> 00:00:23.211 but there's quite a few, that are really, really useful 00:00:23.211 --> 00:00:25.066 in specific circumstances. 00:00:25.066 --> 00:00:27.575 And you'll find, as you play more and learn more songs, 00:00:27.575 --> 00:00:30.423 that you think: "I wish there was an easier way of doing this" 00:00:30.423 --> 00:00:35.193 Now we are going to learn easier ways of doing the G chord. 00:00:35.193 --> 00:00:37.631 So let's go to a close up now, and I'll show you these 00:00:37.631 --> 00:00:41.307 other ways of doing this very, very common chord. 00:00:42.815 --> 00:00:46.599 Ok, here we are for our first G chord variation, 00:00:46.599 --> 00:00:48.327 I call this a "big G". 00:00:48.327 --> 00:00:52.864 And if you look, there was our standard regular G chord 00:00:52.864 --> 00:00:54.011 just using the three fingers. 00:00:54.011 --> 00:00:56.259 All we've done here is move the third finger 00:00:56.259 --> 00:00:58.862 over on to the B string, the second string. 00:00:58.862 --> 00:01:02.063 And the little finger has gone where that third finger used to be. 00:01:02.063 --> 00:01:04.499 So you see now, we're using all four fingers, 00:01:04.499 --> 00:01:07.301 if I just give it a strum.. 00:01:07.301 --> 00:01:09.066 It's a really good sounding G chord. 00:01:09.066 --> 00:01:12.973 All we've done in fact is change the open B string, 00:01:12.973 --> 00:01:15.628 obviously, the note B, into a D note. 00:01:15.628 --> 00:01:19.504 Which is still keeping our G chord, still named a regular G, 00:01:19.504 --> 00:01:22.346 cause we're only using notes G, B and D. 00:01:22.346 --> 00:01:29.045 This chord is particularly famous in Guns'n'Roses, and Poison, 00:01:29.045 --> 00:01:32.048 and Bon Jovi in the 80's. 00:01:32.048 --> 00:01:36.129 All that acoustic guitar rock stuff all of the acoustic guitar songs 00:01:36.133 --> 00:01:38.825 nearly always used this version of the G chord. 00:01:38.825 --> 00:01:42.430 And it does sound a little bit bigger and kind of more poppy or rocky 00:01:42.430 --> 00:01:44.752 than the original G. 00:01:44.752 --> 00:01:47.789 But there is one version which is considered even rockier one. 00:01:47.789 --> 00:01:50.497 Which we're gonna go to now. 00:01:50.497 --> 00:01:52.881 So here is our big rock G. 00:01:52.881 --> 00:01:56.223 All I've done is... The last one that I just told you I called "Big G" 00:01:56.223 --> 00:01:59.565 All I've done is lifted of my first finger and now it's suddenly a rock G. 00:01:59.565 --> 00:02:04.334 And the reason this sounds more rocky, and I've actualy renamed it as being a G5, 00:02:04.334 --> 00:02:08.466 It's because it now only contains the notes G and D. 00:02:08.466 --> 00:02:11.752 We don't have any more the note B involved with this chord. 00:02:11.752 --> 00:02:14.568 If we looked at the notes one at a time, we've got a G here, 00:02:14.568 --> 00:02:19.707 the A string is muted by the underneath of that second finger. 00:02:19.707 --> 00:02:23.272 That finger is muting that string. 00:02:23.272 --> 00:02:28.870 Then we've got open D, open G, then another D and another G. 00:02:28.870 --> 00:02:34.715 And this is a big rock chord, with distortion this chord sounds huge. 00:02:34.715 --> 00:02:37.582 It's very, very cool, indeed. 00:02:37.582 --> 00:02:41.871 There is another very common way of playing a G chord. 00:02:41.871 --> 00:02:44.481 Which is a little bit more funky than anything else. 00:02:44.481 --> 00:02:45.289 You tend to use it 00:02:45.289 --> 00:02:48.022 when you're changing from a C chord to a G chord very quickly. 00:02:48.022 --> 00:02:49.447 Which is quite common, 00:02:49.447 --> 00:02:52.514 because the C and the G chord occur very regularly together. 00:02:52.514 --> 00:02:56.352 There's your regular C chord. 00:02:56.352 --> 00:02:59.708 If we want to go to this new G chord, all you're doing is just splitting 00:02:59.708 --> 00:03:03.303 your third and fourth fingers on to the two outside strings. 00:03:03.303 --> 00:03:06.785 This can be a little bit tricky, especially when you're starting out. 00:03:06.785 --> 00:03:10.471 But have a go, because it does make changing C to G a lot quicker 00:03:10.471 --> 00:03:13.259 These two fingers I'm pointing out just to keep them out of the way 00:03:13.259 --> 00:03:15.396 but you would normally just leave them hanging around. 00:03:15.396 --> 00:03:18.010 I didn't want you to get confused and think they were down. 00:03:18.010 --> 00:03:21.117 What we've got here is the third finger over on the thickest string 00:03:21.117 --> 00:03:24.250 and it's a lot flatter than normal and that's deliberately 00:03:24.250 --> 00:03:27.287 to make sure that that string there is muted. 00:03:27.287 --> 00:03:30.051 The same as what we had at that rockin' G, 00:03:30.051 --> 00:03:32.963 but this time we're getting rid of that A string there 00:03:32.963 --> 00:03:33.998 It's muted by the third finger. 00:03:33.998 --> 00:03:37.311 Open D string. Open G, open B 00:03:37.311 --> 00:03:41.204 and little finger down there playing the top note - G as well. 00:03:41.204 --> 00:03:44.986 So this is a full G chord, but you can see, if I'm changing from C to G 00:03:44.986 --> 00:03:47.269 There's C. There's our new G. 00:03:47.269 --> 00:03:48.859 C, G 00:03:51.705 --> 00:03:55.325 And that used to be one of the hardest changes, all fingers off. 00:03:55.325 --> 00:03:58.003 Now it's a lot easier. 00:03:58.003 --> 00:04:00.956 There's some people that put actually that second finger 00:04:00.956 --> 00:04:06.643 and play the same dots as that initial G that we learned 00:04:06.643 --> 00:04:09.005 just without the first finger. 00:04:09.005 --> 00:04:10.584 That's ok, a lot of people like that 00:04:10.584 --> 00:04:13.588 and that's fine to play it that way, I just think that this note 00:04:13.588 --> 00:04:16.287 is a little bit redundant and if I play this one (strum) 00:04:16.287 --> 00:04:19.684 and then without it (strum) we hear very little difference, 00:04:19.684 --> 00:04:23.547 but it's a hell of a lot easier to play it like that. 00:04:24.640 --> 00:04:27.475 Now the important thing with these new G chord variations, 00:04:27.475 --> 00:04:30.625 is making sure, that you use them in the right circumstance. 00:04:30.625 --> 00:04:34.332 Particularly the big G and the rock G worked really, really well 00:04:34.332 --> 00:04:37.045 doing chord changes going from G to D. 00:04:37.045 --> 00:04:40.051 But I'm gonna explain that a little bit better in the one minute changes. 00:04:40.051 --> 00:04:42.821 So just get your fingers around these chords 00:04:42.821 --> 00:04:45.988 and I'll see you for another bit of a lesson very soon. 00:04:45.988 --> 00:04:49.988 Bye - bye!