G Major: Guitar Chords

Video Transcript

"We're ready to learn our G Major chord; the next chord in our series. First, let's look quickly at a string we didn't get to in our notes; the low E string. We didn't use this string because most ballards we play will be using this high E or this E here on the second fret of the D string. This E matches the same notes of the high E string, just two octaves lower. E,F and then G. It would be written under ledger lines that you might see in music later. Our G chord is going to start on this low E string and we can use our third finger on the third fret of the low E to play G. We use our second finger to play the second fret of the A string or B. You can hear it underneath. Now this is a big stretch: You keep D,G and E strings open and on our fourth finger here you use to play the fret of the high E. This is a difficult stretch so you might want to set up the pinkie finger first and then moving these fingers up. There's another way of fingering this chord and that is using your second finger, your first finger and your third finger instead. For switching purposes, I tend to prefer this until we get to a later version of the G Major chord. ON the chart here, you can see here are notes in notation: This is the low G represented below that two ledger line A position that we learned. B,D,G another open B and then high G. Here is how the chart looks: I recommend this finger; you can also have a second finger, a first finger and a third finger playing here."