Chords for Guitar Lesson: This will change your life!

_ _ _ _ _ Hi, my name is Robert Johnson.
You can call me Bob.
_ I've posted a number of videos on YouTube _ _
discussing how to fingerpick. _ _ _ _
The basic fingerpicking pattern.
[B] _
One of my videos, the original, already has
_ five million views.
So it's been useful.
_ _ _ _ Most of the videos
_ feature [A] chords [F] C,
_ _ _ [Bb] F, [C] and G.
But [G] I've had many requests to do similar videos
_ [C] using the chords G, _
_ [F] _ _ C, [D] and [G] D.
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ Let's get started. _ _ _ _
I'll first point [G] out that I have my capo [E] on the 5th fret.
One of the nice features of playing the G [D] chord, by the way,
[N] is you get to do the G-C [C] thing. _
_ [F] _ [C] _ _ _ [F] _ _ [C] _
_ Where you can hammer on the C chord using these [Gb] two fingers.
_ Maybe a disadvantage [G] is that the D chord
_ _ is often played using only four strings.
So it makes it a little tight when you're alternating the bass. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ We'll talk about [N] that more later.
Well then, how do we play
the basic _ fingerpicking pattern? _ _
With these patterns, it's best to break them down into two parts.
Here's the first part.
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ That's it.
_ _ The thumb plays that 6th string.
And with your thumb and the middle finger,
[Bb] pinch [C] strings 4 and 2. _ _ _ _
_ _ And with your index finger, _
play the 3rd string.
So this is it again. _ _
_ That's the first part. _ _ _
The second part, _ _ _ _ _
_ _ with your thumb,
[Gm] play the 6th [C] string.
_ _ _ _ Middle finger, 2nd string.
[G] Thumb, 4th string.
And index [C] finger, _ 3rd string. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ OK, _ _ _ _ _ put them together. _ _ _
_ _ Practice for a long time.
_ _ _ _ _ It may take a few hours of practice.
_ _ _ Then try it with a song.
_ _ You are my _ sunshine.
_ _ My only sunshine.
_ _ _ I play the G7 there. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] Let me alternate the bass with my _ _ _ ring finger. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
When skies [C] are _ grey, _
_ You'll never _ [F] know, dear,
_ How much I [C] love you. _
_ _ Please don't take [G] my sunshine _ [C] away.
Notice I use my thumb there on the 2nd fret. _ _ _
_ When playing the D chord,
that gives me a fuller, richer bass.
_ Please don't _ take my sunshine _ [C]
away.
_ So that's another thing you can do with the D chord.
[N] But there are many things you can do
to make that D chord more interesting.
Different turnarounds and _ runs.
And you can vary _ the finger picking pattern too.
All kinds of inventive things.
But that's another [C] video. _
OK, _ after you've been practicing for hours,
you're getting blisters on your fingers now. _
_ _ _ Pick up the _ tempo a little bit.
_ _ _ And let's try it with a faster song. _ _
Maybe we'll try it _ with_
How about_
Let me tell you a story about a [F] man named Charlie
On a tragic and fateful [G] day.
_ He put [C] incense in his pocket, kissed his [F] wife,
and family went to ride on [G] the [C] Yankee hay.
_ Will he ever return?
No, [F] he'll never return.
And [C] his fate is still [G]
unproved.
_ [C] Charlie he met right forever
Neath [F] the streets of Boston.
He's the [C] man [G] who'd never _ [C] return. _ _ _
_ Here's another one by the Kingston Trio.
Remember them? _ _ _ _ _ _ _
It takes a worried man to sing a worried song.
[F] It takes a worried man to sing a worried [C] song.
It takes a worried B7 _ [E] to_ To what?
To sing [Am] a worried song.
I'm worried [F] now, _ but I won't be [C] worried long. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
You can learn to finger pick this very simple song.
_ [F] I can teach you how to pick this very simple [C] song.
Go to my website, it [Em] won't take [Am] very long.
Click on the link, _ _ then practice [C] all night long. _ _ _ _ _ _