A String: Bossa Nova Guitar in F Major

Video Transcript

"So now we're going to look at our three chords as they lie on the A string, or the second string, on the guitar. So if we look over here, you have your tablature again, and I circled all the second string or the A string notes so you can know to find that that's your root, and that's the note you want to play. You can still play the note below it, but you don't want to play that on the downbeat. So we have eight, seven, nine, eight. So if we look at our fretboard we have eight, seven, nine, eight. Very pretty chord. And see how I go down to the little low string to get that. But if I start on that, it's a different chord. So there's your F major. And again I use my middle finger here, I use my pointer finger on the fret below, my pinky on the fret above, and my ring fingers on the same fret, eighth fret. Really nice chord to get under your fingers. Then our next chord is our minor chord, which is eight, six, eight, eight, eight. Very pretty as well. And then for the seventh you just fret this six, fret up to the seventh. The seventh chord. So if we look at the tabs for those we have eight, six, eight, eight, eight. And then eight, seven, eight, eight, eight for the seventh. And again at home you want to notate all these chords down, so when we go through and play a seventh chord on the A string, you can use this voicing, and all these, all are very movable on the guitar fretboard, so you can play on any fret, and it will always sound gorgeous."