Guitar lesson 101

okay so all right so so to start with I mean the best way is to just understand what are these strings key the standard tuning so which is E so the open standard tuning is every good boy deserves every good one E A B G B and then again E so this is high E this is low E so that's how it is and then if you traverse through the the strings or one string for that matter so if this is E open as E then it's a black key if you compare it to the keyboard so E and then F then G so this is sharp so E F F sharp G then G sharp then A A sharp B but then after B there is no black key so the two places so B and C so this was E and F and this was B and C then D then E again so this is one octave so you can do that on every every string and you can find out the note so this is how you find out the note in general then there are a lot of things which you can start but mostly if you want to learn the chord so it's got nothing to do with how the chord in general works in piano but since you know the piano but I'll just for example for every so there are two kinds of chords I would say so one are open string chords they involve a lot of open strings so they so for example this this this so starting with A so A major is like these three and then you play together so there are multiple ways of playing it some people play it like this so you so leaving the top two strings you have to leave those two and then you place second second yeah and the third one as well so you have to try and for first couple of days you have to try and play some so that you don't obstruct other strings every string plays clean and the last one as well, you missed one, there's one more below it so it shouldn't get muted so you have to so that's why I said you have to cut your nails because you have to press with the tips so when you press with your tips it doesn't obstruct any other string if I place it like so yeah it's gonna obstruct the other string so you have to play it like so so that's the first bit that you have to play and then so so there are certain chord shapes of open chord so this is A chord then there is B chord which is this like I mentioned the note so from A to B there is one yeah so you can shift this shift it okay and then place this little finger here this is B chord so yeah so that's why it's preferable to use these three so like do this and move it yeah that's where so use these three leave the index finger out no no the index finger you have to leave it out and use these three yeah just put these three like so and place the index finger here below one string below we will come to that other it will take time but so easier one now let's do easier ones for today but this one is easier or this one so here let's start with these three it's still obstructing but eventually it would work out one once you you know try it at the nails cut yeah yeah that's when this is a major and then there is a E major chord so you just put it put you just lift it up and then move everything up and you move this finger down so this was like so yeah then you keep these two fingers together the middle two and then you just place it like so on the and then you have this lift and place it on the fourth string so yes E major and E major and E minor are very easy so this is the E major you leave it this is E minor so so these are two simplest of the chord see the difference in the tone major and then it becomes sad right so major minor same with a so this was a major and then a minor is so this looks very similar to a major you just put it you shift everything one string over this E minor so this A minor sorry the E major and A minor so yeah maybe we'll do it the next time and once you cut your nails so we'll practice more on how you can play it but I'm just explaining how it works so so best thing to start with this A major then E minor and then you go down it's A minor then these are three chords then more simpler chords this is D chord D major and D minor so what I'm doing is so I'm shifting this note so I so I'm playing this one but when I wanted to minor because I cannot move this finger D major D minor so now what else C major C major is the strangest chord and so it's like this C major and we cannot play C minor and open string so I will and then this is G major so that's why easiest one to start with are these A major then E major then A minor so these are the easiest one to go with so and then we play some some then we do some right hand work as well so this is right time so what we're going to do with this so plectrum is the best way to start with so you can play just leave everything and just play I use this bit of the nail so get a feel how much you have to dig it in just have to graze it lightly is it tuned? just play this note I think it's F15 just play this one hold on I will tune it just give me this one last one again this one? third one yeah now it's tuned so next time I'm gonna bring that key as well to correct the neck so it's easier to play so if we try and play that that is a bit easier so if we do this yeah so if we number the string that would be easy for us so strings this one the lowest one is 1 1 2 3 and this one is 6th so we use from second to fourth second to fourth yes it's counter intuitive but it's other way around so you hold the thicker string at the back so use this finger to hold this oh I didn't even notice I think that's how I think yeah sorry? I said that's how I think so this is easier because this finger has got more strength right? so if you use this to push it down it can do it more efficiently this finger has relatively less strength so if you do it this way yeah first of all it makes this awkward angle to your hand right? yeah that's true so and this is far away you can do it here but it's closer but then it's difficult to do this here so so that's why it's easier to this and then it's so your middle two strings so ring and the middle finger on so the ring finger goes on the fourth string ring finger fourth and the middle finger goes on the fifth string so this is like a yo sign just that's how I remember so you make a yo sign here and then you have this finger left over so you put it here on the here on the fret before it and this here yes so you have to go and mix so go one string by one yeah that's muted because the other finger is touching this string so it's going to be a little bit of annoying at first because you'll be like okay what am I doing wrong and you won't be able to figure it out so just once you cut your nail that's when you'll be able to do this bit so it's like you bend the finger and make it perpendicular to the fret so it's like yeah it's like this it curls all the way if you look at it from the side it curls all the way and it's not touching any of the strings only the specific string so you you're only touching that string so it can only be done when you're using your fingertips yeah not this bit you have to use this bit the fingertips with every finger it's going to be like this so you have to use your fingertips that's the important bit because you shouldn't be touching any other string other than the ones which you want to and where you want so for example this fret so yeah so that's why so when we do the chords same thing applies so we use only those two and then this none of my fingers are touching any other string other than so then what we do we hold the chord like this and then try and strike one string at a time to see if all are ringing properly or not that's one of the songs which I usually like to play in just just for the sake of chords it's like the house of rising sun it's like this wow so it runs through sort of all the chords right so it's like so we are striking all the strings as well then C chord so I'll name it so this starts with A minor so this was A major and this is A minor so A minor then C major D major F then back to E minor yeah A major so this is a whole cycle so it starts with so it's a whole cycle right so we can use this song as a target eventually when we learn all the chords then we'll be able to play this so this would be like a good motivation for you to learn the chords as well and then you know the song and it's exactly the song this is the song so I'll tell you this is how the song starts so you can get chords and stuff yes no not online the house of rising sun I'll tell you the house of rising sun that's the song so then they start singing then the bit we are looking at this bit then it starts repeating all over so it keeps on repeating the same thing over and over so it starts with this chord progression so it's like A minor then C C meaning C major unless I say minor it's a major chord so A minor C D F then A minor E minor A minor so this is one whole cycle so you have to learn all these chords starting with A minor so A major is this so what is the difference between A major root third fifth and root third flat and fifth so that's how the theory part works so for example if you have A chord so A chord should have root which is A then third which is root third and fifth so that's how it works so this is root third fifth and then when I want to do the minor bit of it so I make the third which is this one which is maybe C is it D C sharp sorry that's the third of A scale so I make it a minor so I flat use a flatter of third flat note of third so this is normal third and this is flat third so it makes it minor same applies with the E E major so E major is this so this is the third so I make I want to make it flat so I leave it so this becomes flat so usually this works for all the chords I'll tell you one interesting bit before we'll so these are very important shapes like this shape and this shape and this shape and this shape and this shape why? because we can make all the chords using this shape using the same theory which we use for the strings so for example we can traverse the notes right so same thing so for example this was A then this is B and then if I so after B there's no sharp right it's just C so this is C now this was A major and this was A minor right so this is B minor and this is C minor and then now for example this was C right and after C this is D so there are two ways in which we can play D this is A and this is D so this is open this is bar chord they call it bar chord I'm not playing like so otherwise normally I don't play like this I play it like this because I'm sort of playing these strings with one of my finger this one I bend it and then I play it like so so that's why the shapes are very important because I can literally shift it across and then make the chords same thing is with this so this was like E major chord shift one step and it's F and then two steps it's G and then it's A so A this A is same as this A the one which we learned easier way to I mean usually people to start with this is way I play A chord like this I just use this bit of my finger because I have this part longer so I press I press like that for me because I ended up muting this string so that's why I play like so then the D chord which I so some people play it like so so lot of variations different people will do different things based on how it works for them depending on how the fingers are so yeah so that's why these are like basic shapes so you start with this then you can literally move it around anywhere and then you you can make all the chords ok same as with A same with this now here if I move it and if I'm not able to do this bar I need to use the half bar which is like so half bar so I need I should be able to press these two strings two strings with my fingers so it's like this and then but then again for starting bit we can just simply do this then move it around make all the chords that's why the although to start with we need to be able to play these open chords so we'll really focus on these three A minor then C C is this so you play this string try and try to I think you should use this one because you'll get used to it otherwise you'll be like ok yeah and it's a bit brighter as well this is this one has got an older string so it's not that bright so play this first fret and then you have second string yes and then this is fourth string and then the fifth string ok so it's still good when I did it for the first time I was doing this because I couldn't move my fingers on it's own so I had to do this literally for my first time and that's how I was able to play so yeah it's still good so this is C C so you still have to try to keep that finger this bit like so yeah good yeah so this goes a bit below on the lower string yes now it's correct and it should be before the fret yeah but on this string yeah that sounded about right partially right but still for the first time it's good and then then A yes three strings yes you have to pluck all the strings it's the there it is that sounded better good that sounded better then E major that's the one that's like a the middle yeah yes on a lower one yes because these two you're already playing right so if you're playing these two strings so for example I'll tell you if I'm playing these two strings if I keep this behind it's not gonna do anything because you're already pressing it before right so for example if I press it here and if I do anything here it doesn't happen nothing happens so that's for lower string so so we're going to learn these chords A minor so A minor is let's play A major E major again the one which we played yeah this and this no not that yeah now keep the shape like as it is move every finger one string down so that yes and this as well this goes down as well yes this is A minor keep this intact and then you even this one intact so these two so play A minor again A minor the one which we were playing yeah correct so just lift this bit no the other one yeah and then extend it to this one yeah and it's C and then lift all together all of the fingers and then hold these two so there's a gap in between so these two no the lower one so you have to make this triangle so one one one ok leave the second string yeah it's third and first third and first using first two fingers yes and then using the ring finger go the get this yes it's a bit awkward eventually you're gonna get it that's a D chord and then F chord would be E major remember E major play E major so it's using center two fingers yeah and then just shift it one ahead everything one fret ahead yes one fret yes that's that's F but in order to make it F we have to switch the fingers because we need this finger so we use the tiny two fingers ok and press this and then one below it so your this finger presses yes this correct this presses the further below yes and yes perfect and you can place the thumb behind so it gives you more freedom to you know press it you can apply more pressure yeah put it above then it becomes difficult put it here and then back to A minor A minor is so to start with whenever there is A chord hits you you usually go with this just for the beginning which is 2nd 2nd 3rd 4th ok 2nd 3rd so like that A major but then lift it up and then make it minor so keep that shape intact move above but then free this finger and go so keep the last 2 fingers the bottom 2 fingers as it is and then the free index finger goes down on the B string the 2nd string one string below yes that's it it's gonna take a while it's just the 1st session I mean because it's a slow process thank you but at least it's a beginning it's a beginning because your fingers are going to take a toll for a while because it does hurts at the beginning until unless it develops a little bit of calluses so mine are gone because I haven't been playing much but you develop calluses here something looks like this and then after that it just stays there until you playing so and then it would hurt a bit for start at the tips probably it would be hurting right now as well I don't know it's ok because I haven't pressed it so hard but you have to cut your nails so that you can do this bit only for the left hand for the right hand it should be ok and then we are going to practice these in next couple of sessions too so that you get used to then we are going to work on the right hand as well we are going to work on right hand so we need to find out where the string is without looking at it because you won't be looking you won't be playing like this you play it like so it's facing front so you always hold it like this so then you are not looking at the strings always you are looking front so you should be able to figure out where the string is where you place this palm like so so it's like feeling it yeah and then yeah so a lot of stuff going on together all together but yeah it's going to be alright thank you and then when you hold the guitar you just hold it like so try to make it keep it horizontal as much as possible make it go down then you won't be able to make the angle right so usually that's why I sit like so most of the time because let it hang then it makes the posture much better if you sit on that bit that's too this one then it would be better for you so let it hang below yeah so this go fits on your thigh ok this way yeah and then that's better ok you will feel much better yeah rest this arm here on this bulge part and then just let it hang then now you are much relaxed position it's more convenient so this is the normal posture just be as stable as possible you shouldn't so the thing is this left hand shouldn't bear any weight of the guitar it should be like so it should be just doing this not bearing the weight of the guitar otherwise if you leave it hanging then your guitar falls down like so because this is usually heavy and then if you are holding the guitar with this hand it puts an additional effort and then you find to hold the guitar not play it so hold it with this hand and then it's not fit and then you can you