Chords for America A Horse With No Name Guitar Lesson + Tutorial

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_ [Em] _ _ _ _ Hey, what's up you guys?
Marty Schwartz here with Marty Music, and we're going to break down Horse With No Name,
two-chord jam.
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All right, let's break it down.
All right, this whole song _ is two chords, a two-chord jam.
It's E minor to F sharp minor, but there's lots of colors and extensions that you can
mix in, and that's what you're hearing.
You're also hearing more than one guitar.
Also, I would revert back to this kind of like, oh, one of the easiest songs to play
ever is Horse With No Name.
_ _ _ We'll start with the E minor, and that kind of cheater version, the second chord, is just
the second fret on the G string.
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So that's like kind of a cheating way to do it. _
Now I have a way, _ since it's more than one guitar and it's not doing the same thing over
and over, this is how I would play it if I was doing a cover and singing it, and I was
one guitar player.
I would play E minor for _ _ _ the verses like that.
And then I would play [A] _ _ _ _ _ this F sharp minor.
So what you're getting is an F sharp [B] minor 7 with an open B and open high [A] E in there.
_ _ _ _ _ _ So it's just a type of F sharp minor.
Don't worry about the extension names. _ _ _ _
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[G] _ _ So another variation is where you can hear _ _
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And so you could play E minor and hit that, which just makes it E minor 7, but it's still
an E minor chord. _ _ _
_ _ _ And then you could go to F sharp minor [F#m] 7, _ _ _ _ [A] or where the A string's muted, which is similar
to that one. _ _
So the A string's just [F#] muted out.
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_ [F#m] _ _ _ [E] so also during some of the verses you'll hear [Em] _ _ the_ _ _
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_ _ And so an [E] alternate [A] version, which _ is [F#] having [A] _ _
that _ _ _ voicing instead for a type of [E] F sharp,
and if you can get [F#m] your thumb in there, _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ another type of F sharp minor.
But that one's not comfortable for me, so I like this one.
_ Listen to how they function the same way.
_ So basically a two chord jam _ with some [B] various colors that are up to you to add.
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