Chords for Star Wars Force Theme Guitar Lesson

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_ _ [Am] _ [E] Hello friends, Hal here.
[A] Today we're doing [Am] the Force theme from Star Wars.
Let's go over
the chords [Am] really quick here.
First we have an A minor chord, _ right?
Just a regular A
minor chord, to [D] a D chord, and then [E] an E chord, like that.
[A] And then we go back to A [Am] minor,
and [C] then we do an A minor with a G bass.
The G bass is [G] found on the third fret right here.
I do it [E] with my little finger.
[Am] _ _
[F] And _ then we have an F chord.
I use the bar because I get
that really low F note.
And then [Am] back to A minor, _
_ [E] back _ to E, [A] and then A minor again.
[Am] _ _ _ _ [E] So what we've got here is our melody goes like this.
_ [A] _ _ [B] _ _ _
[C] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ [Bm] _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ Like that, right?
So you'll notice,
let's just talk [Am] about that a little bit.
[E] You'll notice that my hand didn't move very much
from the A minor position.
[A] I can actually keep my hand right [B] here, lift my finger up,
[Cm] came out [E] of the A minor position for a second, go back to the A minor position, _ [Am] right? _ _ _
[Em] Right
there?
[D] That's all in that A minor chord.
And then I guess I could use my little finger
right there, but I [A] wanted to come out of that position, [E] _ _ [Am] _ _ _
[D] right?
[E] And then I go back to the
A minor [B] position, [Am] _ _
and then I went here, 5-5, because it's actually an easier transition
than 1-5.
Like that's a really big stretch, _ _ _ _ right?
So I did [E] 5 _ [Am]-5 _
_ [A] _ like that with different
fingers, and then back to here, and back to the A minor position.
[Am] _ _ And here, [E] I don't even
have to move my hand.
Now, all of that chord, _ we actually have an A minor chord going to
an E chord, back to A minor.
_ [Am] _ _ _
[E] _ _ [A] _ [Em] So ideally, you don't want all of those notes to ring [Am] like
[E] that, because that would be just an A minor chord, and we have to go to an E chord.
So
_ _ you [A] want to mute those strings as you go along, but it's really in that shape of A minor.
Okay, so that's what happens.
That's the force theme, which is really fun, and it's mostly
in your A minor chord.
Let's go over a little bit of the picking pattern that I'm doing
here.
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [E] _
Okay, that's what I'm doing.
So I'll put the tab [N] there on the screen for you.
I
know it's hard to see my hand as I do that, but _ [Am] something _ like that.
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [E] I hit that E chord
one strum, [A] because it's only one beat.
One, two, [C] three.
[Em] And I think what I do is I hit
that chord with the G bass, because it only covers one [F] beat.
_ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ [A] And then I came up here in
the recording, I believe, [Am] and I went and I hit those three notes, 5-5-5, on the third,
fourth, and, excuse me, third, second, and first string, [C] and I had to mute that D string
so it wouldn't play.
But that A [A] string, and these three [Am] strings on five make an A minor
chord.
Don't play your D string, don't play your low E string.
Okay?
Make sure that they're
not playing, like that, and you get another A minor chord.
[E] Okay, that's it for [A] the force
theme.
[Em] Okay, we'll talk to you later.
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