Chords for EASY 2 Chord Song - Horse with No Name Guitar Lesson

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What's up guys?
Kevin here from Relax and Learn Guitar, [D#] where I help music lovers over [D] 40 become the guitar
players they've [G#] always wanted to be, with a great [Em] lesson here today, a little horse
with no name.
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A [F] great two-chord song, perfect if you're a [Em] beginner.
This is one of the first songs [D#] I usually teach my beginner students.
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[C#] Guitar if you want to learn more.
[Em] This is a good one because you have just the two chords.
It helps you [G#] learn chord switching.
There's also going to be, it's kind of a step-by-step, so this is a beginner [C#m]-level [D#] lesson.
I'm going to show you the two chords you need to know, using just two fingers for each [G] chord.
I'm going to show you a beginner-level strum [D] pattern, and then we're going to work our
[D#] way up to a more advanced one.
Then I'll do a play-through so you can play along [A] and learn the song that way as well.
So let's get started.
You're going to need to know two chords for this, and the cool thing is you're [Em] only going
to be using two fingers for each chord.
The first chord is an E minor.
_ _ To play that E minor chord, [D] you're going to have your index here on the [B] fifth string,
second fret, and your middle finger is going to fret the fourth string, second fret.
You play all [Em] six strings.
_ That's an E minor chord. _ _
The second chord is a D6 [A] slash 9.
_ [F#] It's a real mouthful, [F#m] but it's still a pretty [D#] easy chord to play.
So you're going to still just be using two fingers here, but you're going to move that
index finger up one string to the thickest, fattest string.
That's the sixth string, the E string.
[A#] You're going to fret that sixth string on the second [Em] fret.
You're going to move your middle finger down a string to the third string and fret that
on the second fret.
[D#] And again, play all six strings.
[A] _ _ _ [B] Because that one's a mouthful, the rest of this lesson I'm just going to call it [Em] the
D6 chord instead of D6 slash 9.
But you know what I mean.
So you have E minor _ and a D6.
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[E] Get really good at just practicing [D] those [Em] two chords _ and making sure they're fretted clean
[A] and then switching between them.
Because literally this entire [Em] song is moving between those two chords.
_ [F#m] Where [D#] I see people struggle the most is just changing that chord.
So if you just kind of visualize that change from E minor to D6, [B] and just [Em] knowing that
you're changing that shape [G] and moving that index finger up and that middle finger [A] down,
that [Em] might help you _ [D] with that chord change.
[Em] And if you want to learn seven more [C#] songs just using four chords, so working our [Em] way
up to that a little bit, stick around.
I'll show you how to do that at the end of this lesson.
[D#] Okay, the first strum pattern that we're going to use [E] is just standard down [Em] strums.
One, two, three, four.
Those are quarter notes because there's [D#] four of them.
I fret that E [Em] minor chord and strum down on all six [D#] strings.
We're going to do quarter notes.
One, two, three, four.
One, two, three, four.
You're going to switch to that D6 chord.
And again, the strum pattern is going to be four [B] down strums.
One, two, three, [Em] four.
I always tell all my members, do it correctly first and quickly later.
Speed will come with time.
So slow it down if you need to.
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_ _ [Em] So it's going to sound something like this if you use that [D#] strum pattern for the entire [A] song.
And that's where I suggest you start if [Em] you're a beginner level guitarist.
So you have,
On the first part of [A] the journey,
_ I [Em] was looking at all the [A] life.
_ There were plants and birds [B] and rocks and things.
[Em] It sounds good all the way through the entire song.
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[E] Now, the next strum pattern, we're going to just add in [G] one up strum to that pattern.
And you might be [B] thinking, big deal.
What's that going to do?
It actually changes it a lot.
[C] So we're going to play this strum [D] pattern [C#] instead of the four down strums.
We're going to go [D] down, [C#] down, down, up, [D] down. _
[Em] Down, down, down, up, _ _ _ _
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down.
[Em] And each [D#] chord just gets one of those strum patterns.
So you're just switching back and forth from [B] that E minor to that D6 [Em] with the down, down, down, up, [A] down, _ down, up, [Em] down. _ _
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ So I'm [D#] going to, I'll slow it down just a little bit.
I'm going to play through the first verse and the chorus.
So grab your guitar.
Make sure you're tuned up.
You got those E minors and D6s ready to go under those fingertips.
_ We're going to play this one together.
So here we go.
On the first part of [F#m] the journey, _ [Em] I was looking at all [F#m] the life.
_ [Em] There were plants and birds [F#m] and rocks and things.
[Em] There was sand and hills [F#m] and rings.
_ [Em] The first thing I met [B] was a fly with a buzz [Em] and the sky with [F#m] no clouds.
_ [Em] The heat was hot and the [D] ground was dry, [Em] but the air was full [F#m] of sound.
_ [Em] I've been through the desert on [D] a horse with no name.
It felt [Em] good to be out [A] of the rain.
_ [Em] In the desert, you can [F#] remember your name, because there ain't no one for [A] to give you no pain.
[Em] La, la, [F#m] la, la, la, la.
La, la, la, la, la.
_ _ _ _ La, la, [D] la, la, la, la.
[Em] La, la, la, la, la.
[D] _ _ _ _ _ A great one to [D#] learn.
I really encourage you to stick with it.
If you've never thought I can play a [D#] whole song all the way through, that's never going to [F#] happen.
[Em] This is a great one to start with.
_ And like I said, if you want to learn seven more songs, which sounds [D] like a crazy amount, right?
[E] Seriously, you can do seven [G] songs using just four chords.
Check out this [A#] lesson where I show you how to exactly [C] do that.
[Em] Add those to your set list. _ _
And I'll see [G] you guys in the next lesson.
Remember, you're never too [Em] old to learn. _ _