From the course: Acoustic Guitar Lessons: 1 Picking, Fretting, & Chords
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Major chords 2: The chords A and E
From the course: Acoustic Guitar Lessons: 1 Picking, Fretting, & Chords
Major chords 2: The chords A and E
- [Voiceover] Alright, we covered G, C, and D and I've got some more chords here to show you that are popular chords on the guitar and certainly important in bluegrass. You'll find that most bluegrass songs will use all these chords. Other genres use them, too, but, obviously. But, you know, most bluegrass songs that you're gonna play are gonna use all these, what I'm gonna show you in addition to the G, C, and D forms down here on the neck. So the next one I'll show you is E, open E here and it's great because the root chord here, the root note here is E, so your low E, which is cool. And so, you've got your middle finger on the second fret of the fifth string, and your ring finger on the second fret of the fourth string. And tuck your index finger into the first fret of the third string. And try to leave the B and E open. And again, as you're building left hand technique, a tendency for a lot of newer players, newer players of this style is to kinda... As your muscles are building…
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