How to Play the A Chord on Guitar

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Part of the video series: How to Play Guitar for Beginners

Summary: Play an easy A chord on the second fret of a six string guitar; learn how from an award winning musician in this free beginners guitar playing lesson on video.

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By Bonnie Barnard
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Bonnie Barnard is an award winning singer/songwriter/musician who won Musician Magazine’s Best Unsigned Artist Award for her song “Dead Town” and also had one of her songs in film...read more

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Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Bonnie Barnard. On behalf of Expert Village I'm going to teach you the A chord. So the A chord we play on the second fret. These are frets these gold bars here we are going to play on the hind of the second fret. We are going to use only two fingers play the easy A chord we are going to use the middle finger (this one) we are going to put it on the third string and the second fret middle finger third string second fret put it down right there. We are going to take the third finger we are going to put it on the fourth string second fret so these are both on the second fret third string second fret and fourth string second fret. You just play it and that is the A chord."

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