How to Play "Broken" on the Guitar

Video Transcript

"JOE WILES: We're going to take a look at number 31, which is "Broken" by Seether. Grab your acoustic guitar. Let's go. The first thing you got to do is tune your guitar down a half step. Your guitar should be tuned to match these notes. Your low E should sound like this. Your A string should sound like this. Your D string, a half step down, should sound like this. Your G string should sound like this. Your B string should like this. And your high E string, tuned a half step down, should sound like this. Alright. This song is a really great finger picking exercise, so pay attention. On the 2nd fret of your D string, I want you to slap your index finger there. It sounds like this. Now, the high E string on the 2nd fret, I want you to put your middle finger. We're going to hit those at the same time with our thumb and our ring fingers, okay? And then we're going to hammer on to the 3rd fret of the high string with your ring finger on your left hand, okay? For this finger picking exercise, I'm going to kinda assign my thumb to the base notes and my other three strings to these high three strings right here, okay? So each one gets it's own string. One, two, three, four. Each of these fingers gets a string. So let's try that again. Now, with the middle finger, which is the B string, index finger, which is the G string, the ring finger on the high E string, okay? That's it. That's the first chord. For the next chord, we're going to put our middle finger on the 3rd fret of the A string. We're going to put our ring finger on the 3rd fret of the B string and our pinkie on the 3rd fret to the high E string, okay? We're going to hit all three of these together with our index finger over here on the open G string, okay? So these three fingers assigned to these three high strings and our thumb assigned to the A string now on the base note--okay? Now, we're going to go up to the high three strings from our index, middle, ring--and back down, okay? So index, middle, ring, middle, index, middle, ring, middle, got that? So--now we're going to bring our thumb down to the D string, index, middle, okay? This set of chord, or this chord set, sounds like this--okay? Together with the last riff, it sounds like this slowly. All right. We run out of time. So let's continue the rest of this song in the next segment. I'll see you there."