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Hi! How you doing, Justin here.[br]

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Welcome to Stage 8[br]of your guitar beginners course.

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I'm sure [br]you're gonna be enjoying this one,

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cause, what we're gonna be checkin' out,[br]is a few variations of a G chord.

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I've shown you one, kind of,[br]standard way of playing G chord,

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but there's quite a few,[br]that are really, really useful

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in specific circumstances.

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And you'll find, as you play more[br]and learn more songs,

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that you think: [br]"I wish there was an easier way of doing this"

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Now we are going to learn[br]easier ways of doing the G chord.

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So let's go to a close up now,[br]and I'll show you these

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other ways of doing this[br]very, very common chord.

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Ok, here we are for our first G chord variation,[br]

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I call this a "big G".

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And if you look,[br]there was our standard regular G chord

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just using the three fingers.

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All we've done here[br]is move the third finger

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over on to the B string, the second string.

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And the little finger[br]has gone where that third finger used to be.

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So you see now, [br]we're using all four fingers,

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if I just give it a strum..

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It's a really good sounding G chord.

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All we've done in fact is[br]change the open B string,

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obviously, the note B, into a D note.

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Which is still keeping our G chord,[br]still named a regular G,

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cause we're only using notes G, B and D.

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This chord is particularly famous[br]in Guns'n'Roses, and Poison,

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and Bon Jovi in the 80's.

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All that acoustic guitar rock stuff [br]all of the acoustic guitar songs

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nearly always used this version of the G chord.

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And it does sound a little bit bigger[br]and kind of more poppy or rocky

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than the original G.

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But there is one version[br]which is considered even rockier one.

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Which we're gonna go to now.

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So here is our big rock G.

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All I've done is... The last one[br]that I just told you I called "Big G"

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All I've done is[br]lifted of my first finger and now it's suddenly a rock G.

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And the reason this sounds more rocky,[br]and I've actualy renamed it as being a G5,

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It's because it now only[br]contains the notes G and D.

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We don't have any more[br]the note B involved with this chord.

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If we looked at the notes one at a time,[br]we've got a G here,

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the A string is muted[br]by the underneath of that second finger.

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That finger is muting that string.

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Then we've got open D,[br]open G, then another D and another G.

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And this is a big rock chord,[br]with distortion this chord sounds huge.

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It's very, very cool, indeed.

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There is another very common way of playing a G chord.

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Which is a little bit more funky[br]than anything else.

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You tend to use it[br]

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when you're changing from a C chord [br]to a G chord very quickly.

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Which is quite common,

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because the C and the G chord[br]occur very regularly together.

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There's your regular C chord.

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If we want to go to this new G chord,[br]all you're doing is just splitting

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your third and fourth fingers[br]on to the two outside strings.

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This can be a little bit tricky,[br]especially when you're starting out.

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But have a go, because it [br]does make changing C to G a lot quicker

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These two fingers I'm pointing out[br]just to keep them out of the way

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but you would normally[br]just leave them hanging around.

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I didn't want you to get confused[br]and think they were down.

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What we've got here is [br]the third finger over on the thickest string

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and it's a lot flatter than normal[br]and that's deliberately

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to make sure that that string there is muted.

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The same as what we had [br]at that rockin' G,[br]

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but this time [br]we're getting rid of that A string there

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It's muted by the third finger.

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Open D string.[br]Open G, open B

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and little finger down there [br]playing the top note - G as well.

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So this is a full G chord,[br]but you can see, if I'm changing from C to G

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There's C. There's our new G.

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C, G

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And that used to be one of the hardest changes,[br]all fingers off.

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Now it's a lot easier.

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There's some people that put[br]actually that second finger

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and play the same dots[br]as that initial G that we learned

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just without the first finger.

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That's ok,[br]a lot of people like that

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and that's fine to play it that way, [br]I just think that this note

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is a little bit redundant[br]and if I play this one (strum)

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and then without it (strum)[br]we hear very little difference,

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but it's a hell of a lot easier[br]to play it like that.

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Now the important thing [br]with these new G chord variations,

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is making sure, [br]that you use them in the right circumstance.

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Particularly the big G and the rock G[br]worked really, really well

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doing chord changes[br]going from G to D.

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But I'm gonna explain that a little bit better[br]in the one minute changes.

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So just get your fingers around these chords[br]

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and I'll see you for another bit of a lesson[br]very soon.

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Bye - bye!