Chords for Learn how to play guitar using only ONE hand (beginner)

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_ _ _ _ _ _ I love that you wanted to learn how to play a [A] song without plucking the strings with your right hand,
[Ab] like only doing [Gm] hammer-ons and pull-offs with the left hand.
[D] And in this example we're going to learn today is just a basic riff from Trace Bundy's original song,
Jeweling Ninjas, and we are going to kind of simplify it a bit to make it as easy as possible for you.
_ [D] Yeah, we're going to start.
So the first thing you have to do is tune your guitar to your dad-gad tuning.
Basically, only thing you have to do is tune down [Db] the E string to [B] D and [A] tune down the
B string to A [D] and the high E string to D. _
_ Therefore the name, D-A-D-G-A-D.
So when you play the strings open, you're going to get a nice Dsus4 chord. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Okay, [G] and now we're basically going to start with the riff.
So the first thing you're going to do is just a hammer-on to the fifth fret of the first string. _ _
And you can see, or no, you can't really see, but I'm not using my right hand to pluck the strings.
You're just going to kind of in a relaxed motion.
I guess when you start doing this,
it [Eb] feels like you're going to press the [G] strings hard, but eventually it's more like kind of a relaxed, but still a quick motion.
It's hard to explain, but I guess in the beginning when you learn it,
it's going to feel like you're pressing the strings really hard.
Okay, but eventually you're going to get really relaxed doing this and it's actually really fun to play like this.
So hit the string.
You can see I'm lightly using my thumb on the back of the neck to support.
Just like when you play guitar regularly.
So, hammer-on,
then a pull [D]-off to open string.
And it's kind of the pull-offs that's going to do most of the work.
That's where we're going to [Ab] get most of the volume for the upcoming notes.
So the pull-offs is [E] kind of the secret to just play using only your left hand.
[G] But okay, hammer-on to the fifth, [D] pull-off.
Then do with your [Dm] middle finger a hammer-on to the third, _ _ and then a pull-off again.
[Gm] So you can kind of see a pattern.
[D] Hammer-on, pull-off.
[Dm] Hammer-on, pull-off.
And now point [Gm] finger is going to do a hammer-on on the [Em] second fret, and [D] a pull-off.
So we have. _ _ _
And then [Gm] to kind of end this, [F] you're going to do a hammer-on back again to the third fret of the first string,
[Gm] and then [D] a pull-off.
And now we [G] are back to the fifth fret, [D] and a pull-off.
And this repeats.
So we have. _
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So try to play after me.
[G] _ Fifth fret, pull-off.
[D] _
_ _ [Dm] Third fret, pull-off.
Second fret, [D] pull-off.
[Dm] Third fret, [D] pull-off.
And back on the fifth.
_ When you can do this perfectly, try to up the speed if you have, or
maybe you have an app or you use the computer, use a metronome and try to build the speed as you're doing it in the
right tempo too.
But start slow and kind of build it up.
_ Another way,
when you can play this in a nice speed, you can also try to implement your right hand.
A basic way of doing this is just slapping the top two strings
_ with the side of your thumb.
So just rotating your fingers, rotating your right hand,
like this.
[G] Or you can do a slap harmonic on [Gm] the twelfth fret. _
And [E] with a slap harmonic, you don't have to [D] overthink it.
It's basically just slapping the actual [G] fret.
So not in the middle, more like on this middle part, on the actual fret here.
_ [D] Just a relaxed slap.
Try to use the side of your middle finger.
I think that's how you get
[G] a pretty loud sound.
And so when you do the hammer-on to the fifth fret,
_ you're going to do this at the same time.
So [D] we have, _ _
_ okay,
_ _ or the slap.
[Dm] _ _ I actually prefer the slap here. _ _
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Okay, and then if you want to take this even further,
[E] you can always learn this.
[D] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
So what we are doing here is a [C] hammer-on
to the third fret of the second string.
[G] And just like we know, a pull [D]-off in between.
So we have a pull-off to open, [Dm] hammer-on to the first fret of the second string, [A] and then pull-off to open.
_ [D] So if we would have,
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[A] _ yeah, and continue, [Gm] hammer-on to the third fret of the third string, [G] and a pull-off to open,
[A] hammer-on to the second, pull-off [G] to open.
And then move [F] up a string, follow the same pattern, hammer-on to
the third fret of the fourth string, pull [D]-off to open,
hammer-on to [E] the second fret of the fourth string, [D] pull-off to open.
So what we have now, [Dm] _ _ _ _
[Gm] _ [E] _ _ _ [D] _ and then move up to the next string, [C] hammer-on to the third fret of the fifth string,
[A] pull-off to open.
_ [Gm] Point finger is going to do a hammer-on to the first fret of the fifth string, [A] and pull-off to open.
And now move up a string and do the last one,
just a hammer [E]-on to the second fret of the sixth string [D] and pull off toke-pan.
Okay?
But this is the more advanced part, so I guess if you are advanced
player you probably know what I was doing.
If you're not advanced just [G] focus
on what we learned in the [Dm] beginning and wait [A] with this part.
But we're going to
repeat the last part. _ _
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Okay, great!
So, practice this.
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_ [A] Another thing you can do
is start adding some percussion, but I think we're going to take this for
another tutorial.
But for now this was everything and thank you for watching!
Have a great day guys!
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