Chords for How to play 'Horse With No Name' by 'America'
Tempo:
97.4 bpm
Chords used:
Em
E
F#
D
G
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[E] [Em]
Hello, Shane here from Guitar at [N] Work with you again.
Here's our first song which is going to bring about our first two chords.
It's an oldie but a goodie.
It's A Horse with No Name by the band America.
And it's great because there's only two chords in the entire song.
Let's get right to it.
You're looking at your song sheet I hope and you're seeing our first chord, E minor.
There's a couple of ways to play E minor.
For this particular song, I like using finger 2 and finger 3.
You'll see that and I know you can read those diagrams.
So finger 2 on the second fret of that [G] A string.
Finger 3 on the second fret of that D string.
And that gives you your E minor shape.
And remember we talked a bit about posture early on in a previous video.
So you're going to get that right arm just below the elbow.
You're not resting your bicep.
Again, that's not going to give you the best strumming situation.
So just below your elbow like that.
We're making contact in the guitar about midway here.
Where the sound hole begins.
You don't have to be right in the middle of it.
I shouldn't say midway.
[F] It's right about [Em] there where the sound hole begins.
And then you've got some room to move this way.
You've got some room to move that way.
And those will give you different colors when you're strumming in different accents.
So here we are on an E minor.
I'll just give it 4 beats.
I'm going to go 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and.
All 6 strings are available to you here on the E minor chord.
And notice when I'm counting that, this is important, all the down strokes are beat numbers
such as this.
1, 2, 3, 4.
So then when I'm coming upwards, we're going to count that 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and.
So far so good I hope.
This [N] next chord, D6 9 slash F sharp, it's an awful name for a chord.
I'm going to call that crazy D just because by the time I shout out D6 9 slash F sharp,
it's going to be time to get off that chord.
So this guy here.
And all that's going to happen, middle finger is going to go 1 string thicker and the ring
finger is going to go 1 string thinner.
And it's as easy as that.
So let me do that again here.
Here's E minor, the one chord we started with.
My middle finger will now go 1 string thicker.
My ring finger will now go 1 string thinner like that.
And that's your crazy D chord we'll call it.
It's different than your normal D chord.
If you've looked ahead a bit, you know your standard D chord.
It's not that guy.
So watch out.
E minor, middle finger is going thicker, ring finger is going thinner.
And there we [D] go.
Crazy D.
Again, all 6 strings are available to you.
Yeah, there we go.
It's kind of an unsettled sound that chord.
But remember, [Em] it's going to go back to E minor and sound resolved.
Music is [D] all about tension and release.
And this is clearly tension here.
So I'm going to strum that like this.
1 and 2 and 3 and 4 [G] and.
So [Em] that's it.
That's all we need.
I'm going to go E minor.
1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and.
Now here comes, middle finger is going thicker, ring finger is going thinner.
[D] And 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and.
Like that.
[Em] Now to change in real time is always the challenge.
So I had a little pause there in between my chord change.
What to do is we're going to steal on the very last upbeat of each chord, what we refer
to as the and of 4.
That's this guy here.
1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and.
That last upstroke.
I'll be in motion.
[E] Fingers will be mid-flight.
It's going to [N] land on that new chord properly on beat 1 of the next bar, we're calling it.
[Em] So let me do that slowly here.
Here's E minor.
1 and 2 and 3 and 4.
I'm going to go now.
[D] And 1 and 2 and 3.
Same thing back to E [Em] minor.
And 1 and 2 and 3 and.
I'm going to go now.
Go.
[D] And 1 and 2.
Of course, you wouldn't call attention to it [E] like that.
But we'll minimize the sound of those open strings as we move along.
That's the way to get there on time.
So in real time, play along at home if you're able.
It's going 3, [Em] 4.
Going 1 and 2 and 3 and 4.
Go now.
[D] And 1 and 2 and 3 and [Em] 4.
Go now.
And E minor.
1 and 2 and 3 and 4.
Crazy D.
[D] And 1 and 2 and 3.
Here's an E minor coming [Em] again.
And 1 and 2 and 3 and 4.
Go.
[D] And 1 and 2 and 3.
And back to [Em] E minor.
And 1.
There we go.
So that was just a basic strumming [D] pattern.
I'll [E] call it like a campfire version of the song.
Let's do the actual strumming pattern.
And you're seeing that strange series of dots and arrows on your sheet.
And what's going on there is on the E minor chord, we're asking you to play the lowest
note in that chord.
That's referred to as the bass note.
So here we go.
That's going to be the big thick string right there.
Boom, like that.
I'm just going to isolate it.
So literally pick up.
Boom.
Now I'm going to strum down up.
You're seeing a D, U, and also the arrows on your sheet.
So bass, [Em] down, up.
There we go.
Now when you [E] isolate a bass note like that, you don't generally hit it again on the next strum.
So you can start from the very next string or thereabouts.
It's not the end of the world if you happen to hit that string again though.
Here's bass, [Em] down, up.
And then you're followed by bass, up, down, up.
So here's the whole pattern.
Bass, down, up.
Bass, up, down, up.
There we go.
[E] And notice that first bass note has a fairly lengthy duration.
It's longer than the rest of them.
So one, [Em] two, and three, and four, and.
So hang on to that first note.
Here it is that E minor pattern again.
[E] It's going bass, [Em] down, up.
Bass, up, down.
There we go.
Okay.
[F#] The pattern for crazy Ds may be a little trickier.
It's going to go bass, [Bm]
up.
Now the X on your sheet means [F#] a whack.
I'm just going to stop the strings.
The side of your hand, this part here is just going to make contact.
We're going to go bass, [E] up, [C#] whack.
And let's do [F#] that again.
It's going [E] bass, up, whack.
Now followed by another up and another whack.
I'm just going to take it that [C#] far for now.
[F#] I'm going to go bass, [E] up, whack, up, whack.
There we go.
And I'm going to finish it off, as you see on your sheet, with an up, down, up.
Okay.
So the whole crazy D pattern looks this [F#] way.
Bass, [Bm] up, whack, up, [E] whack, up, down, up.
And again, three, [D#m] four, [F#] going [E] bass, up, whack, up, whack, up, [D] [Em] down, up.
One [Am] thing with the whack, when you whack it like that, boom, you don't want your pick
to be [C]
prepared, I'll call it, for a downstroke.
Because you're going to need an upstroke [F#] directly after that whack.
So if you do the whack, whack, try to get your pick in position for the next upstroke.
Otherwise, you're kind of double clutching.
You're going bass, [Em] up, [F#] whack, whoop, you're stuck there.
You've got to run down to get your proper upstroke.
So in real time, let's do a close-up of that right hand.
It's going [Em] bass, up, whack, up, whack, [E] up, down, up.
There we go.
I'll put the two patterns together with a little bit of a pause in between to give you
a time to think it through.
Here's E minor going bass, [Em] down, up, bass, up, down, up.
Here's crazy D, three, [F#] four, going [E] bass, up, whack, up, whack, [G] up, down, up.
And back to E minor, [E] three, four, going bass, [Em] down, up, bass, up, down, up.
Crazy D, three, [F#] four, [E] bass, up, whack, [G] up, whack, up, down, up.
Good.
So now, using what we did before on the basic strum just moments ago, I'm going to leave
on that last upstroke to get to the new chord, even amidst that complicated pattern.
So I'm going to do it now with no time in between chords.
Try to play along.
I'll play it nice and slowly here.
Here's E minor, three, [E] four.
It's going bass, [Em] down, up, bass, up, down.
New chord, [F#] [E] bass, up, [G] whack, up, whack, up, down.
New chord, [E] E minor, bass, [Em] down, up, bass, up, down.
Crazy [F#] D, [E] bass, up, whack, up, whack, up, down.
E minor, bass, [Em] down, up, bass, up, down, [F#] up, [Em] bass, up, whack, [E] up, whack, up, down, up.
And that is the pattern.
So let me do that a little quicker.
So if you're having some luck with that, it is pretty quick on [Em] the recording.
Watch how he's going to go, [Em]
[F#] [E] [Em] bass, down, up, bass, up, down, up, bass, up, whack, up, whack,
up, down, up, bass.
That's it.
Now, that'll take some practice.
And chances are it won't [D#] feel musical [E] until you've kind of memorized it
and you don't have to think about it anymore.
At first, you'll have to think about it, and you're wondering,
well, I don't hear the song in there.
But [Em] once you're free to, [F#m] ah, OK.
[Em] It's almost like somebody else is playing it.
Really great.
So enjoy that, and come on back for some more.
We'll see you very soon.
Cheers.
[E] [D] [Em]
Hello, Shane here from Guitar at [N] Work with you again.
Here's our first song which is going to bring about our first two chords.
It's an oldie but a goodie.
It's A Horse with No Name by the band America.
And it's great because there's only two chords in the entire song.
Let's get right to it.
You're looking at your song sheet I hope and you're seeing our first chord, E minor.
There's a couple of ways to play E minor.
For this particular song, I like using finger 2 and finger 3.
You'll see that and I know you can read those diagrams.
So finger 2 on the second fret of that [G] A string.
Finger 3 on the second fret of that D string.
And that gives you your E minor shape.
And remember we talked a bit about posture early on in a previous video.
So you're going to get that right arm just below the elbow.
You're not resting your bicep.
Again, that's not going to give you the best strumming situation.
So just below your elbow like that.
We're making contact in the guitar about midway here.
Where the sound hole begins.
You don't have to be right in the middle of it.
I shouldn't say midway.
[F] It's right about [Em] there where the sound hole begins.
And then you've got some room to move this way.
You've got some room to move that way.
And those will give you different colors when you're strumming in different accents.
So here we are on an E minor.
I'll just give it 4 beats.
I'm going to go 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and.
All 6 strings are available to you here on the E minor chord.
And notice when I'm counting that, this is important, all the down strokes are beat numbers
such as this.
1, 2, 3, 4.
So then when I'm coming upwards, we're going to count that 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and.
So far so good I hope.
This [N] next chord, D6 9 slash F sharp, it's an awful name for a chord.
I'm going to call that crazy D just because by the time I shout out D6 9 slash F sharp,
it's going to be time to get off that chord.
So this guy here.
And all that's going to happen, middle finger is going to go 1 string thicker and the ring
finger is going to go 1 string thinner.
And it's as easy as that.
So let me do that again here.
Here's E minor, the one chord we started with.
My middle finger will now go 1 string thicker.
My ring finger will now go 1 string thinner like that.
And that's your crazy D chord we'll call it.
It's different than your normal D chord.
If you've looked ahead a bit, you know your standard D chord.
It's not that guy.
So watch out.
E minor, middle finger is going thicker, ring finger is going thinner.
And there we [D] go.
Crazy D.
Again, all 6 strings are available to you.
Yeah, there we go.
It's kind of an unsettled sound that chord.
But remember, [Em] it's going to go back to E minor and sound resolved.
Music is [D] all about tension and release.
And this is clearly tension here.
So I'm going to strum that like this.
1 and 2 and 3 and 4 [G] and.
So [Em] that's it.
That's all we need.
I'm going to go E minor.
1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and.
Now here comes, middle finger is going thicker, ring finger is going thinner.
[D] And 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and.
Like that.
[Em] Now to change in real time is always the challenge.
So I had a little pause there in between my chord change.
What to do is we're going to steal on the very last upbeat of each chord, what we refer
to as the and of 4.
That's this guy here.
1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and.
That last upstroke.
I'll be in motion.
[E] Fingers will be mid-flight.
It's going to [N] land on that new chord properly on beat 1 of the next bar, we're calling it.
[Em] So let me do that slowly here.
Here's E minor.
1 and 2 and 3 and 4.
I'm going to go now.
[D] And 1 and 2 and 3.
Same thing back to E [Em] minor.
And 1 and 2 and 3 and.
I'm going to go now.
Go.
[D] And 1 and 2.
Of course, you wouldn't call attention to it [E] like that.
But we'll minimize the sound of those open strings as we move along.
That's the way to get there on time.
So in real time, play along at home if you're able.
It's going 3, [Em] 4.
Going 1 and 2 and 3 and 4.
Go now.
[D] And 1 and 2 and 3 and [Em] 4.
Go now.
And E minor.
1 and 2 and 3 and 4.
Crazy D.
[D] And 1 and 2 and 3.
Here's an E minor coming [Em] again.
And 1 and 2 and 3 and 4.
Go.
[D] And 1 and 2 and 3.
And back to [Em] E minor.
And 1.
There we go.
So that was just a basic strumming [D] pattern.
I'll [E] call it like a campfire version of the song.
Let's do the actual strumming pattern.
And you're seeing that strange series of dots and arrows on your sheet.
And what's going on there is on the E minor chord, we're asking you to play the lowest
note in that chord.
That's referred to as the bass note.
So here we go.
That's going to be the big thick string right there.
Boom, like that.
I'm just going to isolate it.
So literally pick up.
Boom.
Now I'm going to strum down up.
You're seeing a D, U, and also the arrows on your sheet.
So bass, [Em] down, up.
There we go.
Now when you [E] isolate a bass note like that, you don't generally hit it again on the next strum.
So you can start from the very next string or thereabouts.
It's not the end of the world if you happen to hit that string again though.
Here's bass, [Em] down, up.
And then you're followed by bass, up, down, up.
So here's the whole pattern.
Bass, down, up.
Bass, up, down, up.
There we go.
[E] And notice that first bass note has a fairly lengthy duration.
It's longer than the rest of them.
So one, [Em] two, and three, and four, and.
So hang on to that first note.
Here it is that E minor pattern again.
[E] It's going bass, [Em] down, up.
Bass, up, down.
There we go.
Okay.
[F#] The pattern for crazy Ds may be a little trickier.
It's going to go bass, [Bm]
up.
Now the X on your sheet means [F#] a whack.
I'm just going to stop the strings.
The side of your hand, this part here is just going to make contact.
We're going to go bass, [E] up, [C#] whack.
And let's do [F#] that again.
It's going [E] bass, up, whack.
Now followed by another up and another whack.
I'm just going to take it that [C#] far for now.
[F#] I'm going to go bass, [E] up, whack, up, whack.
There we go.
And I'm going to finish it off, as you see on your sheet, with an up, down, up.
Okay.
So the whole crazy D pattern looks this [F#] way.
Bass, [Bm] up, whack, up, [E] whack, up, down, up.
And again, three, [D#m] four, [F#] going [E] bass, up, whack, up, whack, up, [D] [Em] down, up.
One [Am] thing with the whack, when you whack it like that, boom, you don't want your pick
to be [C]
prepared, I'll call it, for a downstroke.
Because you're going to need an upstroke [F#] directly after that whack.
So if you do the whack, whack, try to get your pick in position for the next upstroke.
Otherwise, you're kind of double clutching.
You're going bass, [Em] up, [F#] whack, whoop, you're stuck there.
You've got to run down to get your proper upstroke.
So in real time, let's do a close-up of that right hand.
It's going [Em] bass, up, whack, up, whack, [E] up, down, up.
There we go.
I'll put the two patterns together with a little bit of a pause in between to give you
a time to think it through.
Here's E minor going bass, [Em] down, up, bass, up, down, up.
Here's crazy D, three, [F#] four, going [E] bass, up, whack, up, whack, [G] up, down, up.
And back to E minor, [E] three, four, going bass, [Em] down, up, bass, up, down, up.
Crazy D, three, [F#] four, [E] bass, up, whack, [G] up, whack, up, down, up.
Good.
So now, using what we did before on the basic strum just moments ago, I'm going to leave
on that last upstroke to get to the new chord, even amidst that complicated pattern.
So I'm going to do it now with no time in between chords.
Try to play along.
I'll play it nice and slowly here.
Here's E minor, three, [E] four.
It's going bass, [Em] down, up, bass, up, down.
New chord, [F#] [E] bass, up, [G] whack, up, whack, up, down.
New chord, [E] E minor, bass, [Em] down, up, bass, up, down.
Crazy [F#] D, [E] bass, up, whack, up, whack, up, down.
E minor, bass, [Em] down, up, bass, up, down, [F#] up, [Em] bass, up, whack, [E] up, whack, up, down, up.
And that is the pattern.
So let me do that a little quicker.
So if you're having some luck with that, it is pretty quick on [Em] the recording.
Watch how he's going to go, [Em]
[F#] [E] [Em] bass, down, up, bass, up, down, up, bass, up, whack, up, whack,
up, down, up, bass.
That's it.
Now, that'll take some practice.
And chances are it won't [D#] feel musical [E] until you've kind of memorized it
and you don't have to think about it anymore.
At first, you'll have to think about it, and you're wondering,
well, I don't hear the song in there.
But [Em] once you're free to, [F#m] ah, OK.
[Em] It's almost like somebody else is playing it.
Really great.
So enjoy that, and come on back for some more.
We'll see you very soon.
Cheers.
[E] [D] [Em]
Key:
Em
E
F#
D
G
Em
E
F#
[E] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _
_ Hello, Shane here from Guitar at [N] Work with you again.
Here's our first song which is going to bring about our first two chords.
It's an oldie but a goodie.
It's A Horse with No Name by the band America.
And it's great because there's only two chords in the entire song.
Let's get right to it.
You're looking at your song sheet I hope and you're seeing our first chord, E minor.
There's a couple of ways to play E minor.
For this particular song, I like using finger 2 and finger 3.
You'll see that and I know you can read those diagrams.
So finger 2 on the second fret of that [G] A string.
Finger 3 on the second fret of that D string.
And that gives you your E minor shape.
And remember we talked a bit about posture early on in a previous video.
So you're going to get that right arm just below the elbow.
You're not resting your bicep.
Again, that's not going to give you the best strumming situation.
So just below your elbow like that.
We're making contact in the guitar about midway here.
Where the sound hole begins.
You don't have to be right in the middle of it.
I shouldn't say midway.
[F] It's right about [Em] there where the sound hole begins.
And then you've got some room to move this way.
You've got some room to move that way.
And those will give you different colors when you're strumming in different accents.
So here we are on an E minor.
I'll just give it 4 beats.
I'm going to go 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and.
All 6 strings are available to you here on the E minor chord.
And notice when I'm counting that, this is important, all the down strokes are beat numbers
such as this.
1, 2, 3, 4.
So then when I'm coming upwards, we're going to count that 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and.
So far so good I hope.
This [N] next chord, D6 9 slash F sharp, it's an awful name for a chord.
I'm going to call that crazy D just because by the time I shout out D6 9 slash F sharp,
it's going to be time to get off that chord.
So this guy here.
And all that's going to happen, middle finger is going to go 1 string thicker and the ring
finger is going to go 1 string thinner.
And it's as easy as that.
So let me do that again here.
Here's E minor, the one chord we started with.
My middle finger will now go 1 string thicker.
My ring finger will now go 1 string thinner like that.
And that's your crazy D chord we'll call it.
It's different than your normal D chord.
If you've looked ahead a bit, you know your standard D chord.
It's not that guy.
So watch out.
E minor, middle finger is going thicker, ring finger is going thinner.
And there we [D] go.
Crazy D.
Again, all 6 strings are available to you.
Yeah, there we go.
It's kind of an unsettled sound that chord.
But remember, [Em] it's going to go back to E minor and sound resolved.
Music is [D] all about tension and release.
And this is clearly tension here.
So I'm going to strum that like this.
1 and 2 and 3 and 4 [G] and.
So [Em] that's it.
That's all we need.
I'm going to go E minor.
1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and.
Now here comes, middle finger is going thicker, ring finger is going thinner.
[D] And 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and.
Like that.
[Em] Now to change in real time is always the challenge.
So I had a little pause there in between my chord change.
What to do is we're going to steal on the very last upbeat of each chord, what we refer
to as the and of 4.
That's this guy here.
1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and.
That last upstroke.
I'll be in motion.
[E] Fingers will be mid-flight.
It's going to [N] land on that new chord properly on beat 1 of the next bar, we're calling it.
[Em] So let me do that slowly here.
Here's E minor.
1 and 2 and 3 and 4.
I'm going to go now.
[D] And 1 and 2 and 3.
Same thing back to E [Em] minor.
And 1 and 2 and 3 and.
I'm going to go now.
Go.
[D] And 1 and 2.
Of course, you wouldn't call attention to it [E] like that.
But we'll minimize the sound of those open strings as we move along.
That's the way to get there on time.
So in real time, play along at home if you're able.
It's going 3, [Em] 4.
Going 1 and 2 and 3 and 4.
Go now.
[D] And 1 and 2 and 3 and [Em] 4.
Go now.
And E minor.
1 and 2 and 3 and 4.
Crazy D.
[D] And 1 and 2 and 3.
Here's an E minor coming [Em] again.
And 1 and 2 and 3 and 4.
Go.
[D] And 1 and 2 and 3.
And back to [Em] E minor.
And 1.
There we go.
So that was just a basic strumming [D] pattern.
I'll [E] call it like a campfire version of the song.
_ Let's do the actual strumming pattern.
And you're seeing that strange series of dots and arrows on your sheet.
And what's going on there is on the E minor chord, we're asking you to play the lowest
note in that chord.
That's referred to as the bass note.
So here we go.
That's going to be the big thick string right there.
Boom, like that.
I'm just going to isolate it.
So literally pick up.
Boom.
Now I'm going to strum down up.
You're seeing a D, U, and also the arrows on your sheet.
So bass, [Em] down, up.
There we go.
Now when you [E] isolate a bass note like that, you don't generally hit it again on the next strum.
So you can start from the very next string or thereabouts.
It's not the end of the world if you happen to hit that string again though.
Here's bass, _ [Em] down, up.
And then you're followed by bass, up, down, up.
So here's the whole pattern.
Bass, down, up.
Bass, up, down, up.
There we go.
[E] And notice that first bass note has a fairly lengthy duration.
It's longer than the rest of them.
So one, [Em] two, and three, and four, and.
So hang on to that first note.
Here it is that E minor pattern again.
[E] It's going bass, [Em] down, up.
Bass, up, down.
There we go.
Okay.
[F#] The pattern for crazy Ds may be a little trickier.
It's going to go bass, [Bm]
up.
Now the X on your sheet means [F#] a whack.
I'm just going to stop the strings.
The side of your hand, this part here is just going to make contact.
We're going to go bass, [E] up, [C#] whack.
And let's do [F#] that again.
It's going [E] bass, up, whack.
Now followed by another up and another whack.
I'm just going to take it that [C#] far for now.
[F#] I'm going to go bass, [E] up, whack, up, whack.
There we go.
And I'm going to finish it off, as you see on your sheet, with an up, down, up.
Okay.
So the whole crazy D pattern looks this [F#] way.
Bass, [Bm] up, whack, up, [E] whack, up, down, up.
And again, three, [D#m] four, [F#] going [E] bass, up, whack, up, whack, up, [D] [Em] down, up.
One [Am] thing with the whack, when you whack it like that, boom, you don't want your pick
to be [C]
prepared, I'll call it, for a downstroke.
Because you're going to need an upstroke [F#] directly after that whack.
So if you do the whack, whack, try to get your pick in position for the next upstroke.
Otherwise, you're kind of double clutching.
You're going bass, [Em] up, [F#] whack, whoop, you're stuck there.
You've got to run down to get your proper upstroke.
So in real time, let's do a close-up of that right hand.
It's going [Em] bass, up, whack, up, whack, [E] up, down, up.
There we go.
I'll put the two patterns together with a little bit of a pause in between to give you
a time to think it through.
Here's E minor going bass, [Em] down, up, bass, up, down, up.
Here's crazy D, three, [F#] four, going [E] bass, up, whack, up, whack, [G] up, down, up.
And back to E minor, [E] three, four, going bass, [Em] down, up, bass, up, down, up.
Crazy D, three, [F#] four, [E] bass, up, whack, [G] up, whack, up, down, up.
Good.
So now, using what we did before on the basic strum just moments ago, I'm going to leave
on that last upstroke to get to the new chord, even amidst that complicated pattern.
So I'm going to do it now with no time in between chords.
Try to play along.
I'll play it nice and slowly here.
Here's E minor, three, [E] four.
It's going bass, [Em] down, up, bass, up, down.
New chord, [F#] [E] bass, up, [G] whack, up, whack, up, down.
New chord, [E] E minor, bass, [Em] down, up, bass, up, down.
Crazy [F#] D, [E] bass, up, whack, up, whack, up, down.
E minor, bass, [Em] down, up, bass, up, down, [F#] up, [Em] bass, up, whack, [E] up, whack, up, down, up.
And that is the pattern.
So let me do that a little quicker.
So if you're having some luck with that, it is pretty quick on [Em] the recording.
Watch how he's going to go, _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F#] _ [E] _ _ _ [Em] bass, down, up, bass, up, down, up, bass, up, whack, up, whack,
up, down, up, bass. _ _
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_ _ _ _ That's it.
Now, that'll take some practice.
And chances are it won't [D#] feel musical [E] until you've kind of memorized it
and you don't have to think about it anymore.
At first, you'll have to think about it, and you're wondering,
well, I don't hear the song in there.
But [Em] once you're free to, [F#m] ah, OK.
[Em] _ It's almost like somebody else is playing it.
Really great.
So enjoy that, and come on back for some more.
We'll see you very soon.
Cheers. _
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_ Hello, Shane here from Guitar at [N] Work with you again.
Here's our first song which is going to bring about our first two chords.
It's an oldie but a goodie.
It's A Horse with No Name by the band America.
And it's great because there's only two chords in the entire song.
Let's get right to it.
You're looking at your song sheet I hope and you're seeing our first chord, E minor.
There's a couple of ways to play E minor.
For this particular song, I like using finger 2 and finger 3.
You'll see that and I know you can read those diagrams.
So finger 2 on the second fret of that [G] A string.
Finger 3 on the second fret of that D string.
And that gives you your E minor shape.
And remember we talked a bit about posture early on in a previous video.
So you're going to get that right arm just below the elbow.
You're not resting your bicep.
Again, that's not going to give you the best strumming situation.
So just below your elbow like that.
We're making contact in the guitar about midway here.
Where the sound hole begins.
You don't have to be right in the middle of it.
I shouldn't say midway.
[F] It's right about [Em] there where the sound hole begins.
And then you've got some room to move this way.
You've got some room to move that way.
And those will give you different colors when you're strumming in different accents.
So here we are on an E minor.
I'll just give it 4 beats.
I'm going to go 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and.
All 6 strings are available to you here on the E minor chord.
And notice when I'm counting that, this is important, all the down strokes are beat numbers
such as this.
1, 2, 3, 4.
So then when I'm coming upwards, we're going to count that 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and.
So far so good I hope.
This [N] next chord, D6 9 slash F sharp, it's an awful name for a chord.
I'm going to call that crazy D just because by the time I shout out D6 9 slash F sharp,
it's going to be time to get off that chord.
So this guy here.
And all that's going to happen, middle finger is going to go 1 string thicker and the ring
finger is going to go 1 string thinner.
And it's as easy as that.
So let me do that again here.
Here's E minor, the one chord we started with.
My middle finger will now go 1 string thicker.
My ring finger will now go 1 string thinner like that.
And that's your crazy D chord we'll call it.
It's different than your normal D chord.
If you've looked ahead a bit, you know your standard D chord.
It's not that guy.
So watch out.
E minor, middle finger is going thicker, ring finger is going thinner.
And there we [D] go.
Crazy D.
Again, all 6 strings are available to you.
Yeah, there we go.
It's kind of an unsettled sound that chord.
But remember, [Em] it's going to go back to E minor and sound resolved.
Music is [D] all about tension and release.
And this is clearly tension here.
So I'm going to strum that like this.
1 and 2 and 3 and 4 [G] and.
So [Em] that's it.
That's all we need.
I'm going to go E minor.
1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and.
Now here comes, middle finger is going thicker, ring finger is going thinner.
[D] And 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and.
Like that.
[Em] Now to change in real time is always the challenge.
So I had a little pause there in between my chord change.
What to do is we're going to steal on the very last upbeat of each chord, what we refer
to as the and of 4.
That's this guy here.
1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and.
That last upstroke.
I'll be in motion.
[E] Fingers will be mid-flight.
It's going to [N] land on that new chord properly on beat 1 of the next bar, we're calling it.
[Em] So let me do that slowly here.
Here's E minor.
1 and 2 and 3 and 4.
I'm going to go now.
[D] And 1 and 2 and 3.
Same thing back to E [Em] minor.
And 1 and 2 and 3 and.
I'm going to go now.
Go.
[D] And 1 and 2.
Of course, you wouldn't call attention to it [E] like that.
But we'll minimize the sound of those open strings as we move along.
That's the way to get there on time.
So in real time, play along at home if you're able.
It's going 3, [Em] 4.
Going 1 and 2 and 3 and 4.
Go now.
[D] And 1 and 2 and 3 and [Em] 4.
Go now.
And E minor.
1 and 2 and 3 and 4.
Crazy D.
[D] And 1 and 2 and 3.
Here's an E minor coming [Em] again.
And 1 and 2 and 3 and 4.
Go.
[D] And 1 and 2 and 3.
And back to [Em] E minor.
And 1.
There we go.
So that was just a basic strumming [D] pattern.
I'll [E] call it like a campfire version of the song.
_ Let's do the actual strumming pattern.
And you're seeing that strange series of dots and arrows on your sheet.
And what's going on there is on the E minor chord, we're asking you to play the lowest
note in that chord.
That's referred to as the bass note.
So here we go.
That's going to be the big thick string right there.
Boom, like that.
I'm just going to isolate it.
So literally pick up.
Boom.
Now I'm going to strum down up.
You're seeing a D, U, and also the arrows on your sheet.
So bass, [Em] down, up.
There we go.
Now when you [E] isolate a bass note like that, you don't generally hit it again on the next strum.
So you can start from the very next string or thereabouts.
It's not the end of the world if you happen to hit that string again though.
Here's bass, _ [Em] down, up.
And then you're followed by bass, up, down, up.
So here's the whole pattern.
Bass, down, up.
Bass, up, down, up.
There we go.
[E] And notice that first bass note has a fairly lengthy duration.
It's longer than the rest of them.
So one, [Em] two, and three, and four, and.
So hang on to that first note.
Here it is that E minor pattern again.
[E] It's going bass, [Em] down, up.
Bass, up, down.
There we go.
Okay.
[F#] The pattern for crazy Ds may be a little trickier.
It's going to go bass, [Bm]
up.
Now the X on your sheet means [F#] a whack.
I'm just going to stop the strings.
The side of your hand, this part here is just going to make contact.
We're going to go bass, [E] up, [C#] whack.
And let's do [F#] that again.
It's going [E] bass, up, whack.
Now followed by another up and another whack.
I'm just going to take it that [C#] far for now.
[F#] I'm going to go bass, [E] up, whack, up, whack.
There we go.
And I'm going to finish it off, as you see on your sheet, with an up, down, up.
Okay.
So the whole crazy D pattern looks this [F#] way.
Bass, [Bm] up, whack, up, [E] whack, up, down, up.
And again, three, [D#m] four, [F#] going [E] bass, up, whack, up, whack, up, [D] [Em] down, up.
One [Am] thing with the whack, when you whack it like that, boom, you don't want your pick
to be [C]
prepared, I'll call it, for a downstroke.
Because you're going to need an upstroke [F#] directly after that whack.
So if you do the whack, whack, try to get your pick in position for the next upstroke.
Otherwise, you're kind of double clutching.
You're going bass, [Em] up, [F#] whack, whoop, you're stuck there.
You've got to run down to get your proper upstroke.
So in real time, let's do a close-up of that right hand.
It's going [Em] bass, up, whack, up, whack, [E] up, down, up.
There we go.
I'll put the two patterns together with a little bit of a pause in between to give you
a time to think it through.
Here's E minor going bass, [Em] down, up, bass, up, down, up.
Here's crazy D, three, [F#] four, going [E] bass, up, whack, up, whack, [G] up, down, up.
And back to E minor, [E] three, four, going bass, [Em] down, up, bass, up, down, up.
Crazy D, three, [F#] four, [E] bass, up, whack, [G] up, whack, up, down, up.
Good.
So now, using what we did before on the basic strum just moments ago, I'm going to leave
on that last upstroke to get to the new chord, even amidst that complicated pattern.
So I'm going to do it now with no time in between chords.
Try to play along.
I'll play it nice and slowly here.
Here's E minor, three, [E] four.
It's going bass, [Em] down, up, bass, up, down.
New chord, [F#] [E] bass, up, [G] whack, up, whack, up, down.
New chord, [E] E minor, bass, [Em] down, up, bass, up, down.
Crazy [F#] D, [E] bass, up, whack, up, whack, up, down.
E minor, bass, [Em] down, up, bass, up, down, [F#] up, [Em] bass, up, whack, [E] up, whack, up, down, up.
And that is the pattern.
So let me do that a little quicker.
So if you're having some luck with that, it is pretty quick on [Em] the recording.
Watch how he's going to go, _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F#] _ [E] _ _ _ [Em] bass, down, up, bass, up, down, up, bass, up, whack, up, whack,
up, down, up, bass. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ That's it.
Now, that'll take some practice.
And chances are it won't [D#] feel musical [E] until you've kind of memorized it
and you don't have to think about it anymore.
At first, you'll have to think about it, and you're wondering,
well, I don't hear the song in there.
But [Em] once you're free to, [F#m] ah, OK.
[Em] _ It's almost like somebody else is playing it.
Really great.
So enjoy that, and come on back for some more.
We'll see you very soon.
Cheers. _
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