How to Play a G Major Chord on Guitar

Video Transcript

"Hi, John Aguilar, back to the guitar again. And we're going to do G rock. Another simple thing we can do with a guitar. The first lesson, remember how we did G with our second finger on the third fret of the low E string. And our third finger on the fret of the hight E string. One two three. That's a G cord. You see people mostly play G with this finger added right here. Which is fine, that works, but if we don't use it, and we don't need it. We can free that finger up to do other things. And in this case we're going to have it freed to do G rock. And here it is G rock. Two strums, there's a G cord. And we're going to add for two strums, our first finger to the second fret of the D sting for two strums. And we're going to alternate it. Two for two. And there you have, G rock. And you can use this for a lot of tunes. Simple strums will be fine. G rock. Do different rhythms after you get better at it. But for now, keep it simple. You want to create a good sound, before you want to create a lot of sounds that aren't necessarily good. And that's G rock. "