Chords for Will Fly's Guitar Workshop 4: picking "You Are My Sunshine"

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_ Hello there, it's Will Fly here, and here is a shot of me _ preparing the video for you.
It's called You Are My Sunshine, and it's a guide to picking the tune in a very simple fashion. _
_ _ I've set the tune in the key of A, _ which means that all the notes fall on the first, second and third frets.
_ The tune has only three chords, _ _ and we're going to pick it just using the thumb and two fingers.
So it should be very, very simple to start off with.
And _ the highlight of the tune is the alternating bass strings, mainly on the fifth string and the fourth string, and played with the thumb.
_ You can get the tabs, the chords and the music _ _ for this video from my website, which is _ www _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
.mjra _ _ _ _ .net, _ _ forward slash, _ willfly, _ forward slash. _ _
Right, well I'm going to start off by playing one chorus of the tune, You Are My Sunshine, at normal speed, _ _ just to show you what it sounds like.
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Before we start using the chord diagrams in slow motion, I ought to explain what the _ symbols mean. _ _ _
Here's a typical screenshot from the chord diagrams.
_ _ _ The red bar is currently _ highlighting the bar and beat _ information, _ so you can see that at the moment the screenshot says we're on bar one, playing beat number one. _ _ _ _
The red bar now highlights the chord being played, _ _ so at the moment the chord is A. _ _ _
Blue and yellow circles show which strings have got to be fretted, _ but you don't actually pick the blue circles, you only pick the yellow _ circles.
The point of this is that you [D] can keep your hand on the same chord shape while picking different strings.
_ _ T means that you pick the string with your thumb, _ one means that you pick a string with your first finger, _ and two means that you pick a string with your second finger.
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Right, we're going to play the tune in slow motion now, with chord diagrams _ showing where the strings are actually fretted.
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The next clip is live action in slow motion, _ _ showing the [F] fretting [E] hand.
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The next clip is live action, slow motion, _ showing the picking hand. _
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I'm going to finish the video now by playing the tune at normal speed for a couple of choruses.
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_ Well, I hope you enjoyed that.
Cheerio,