Playing With Chords 01 | E & A across the whole neck

hi my name's Scott this is playing with chords and today I want to teach you how to do this [Music] kind of fun so basically today all you need is your guitar and if you want to download some of this note name scratch paper or check out a link in the description for an online version of it there's a Jam track you can play along with and I invite you to pause and practice what you've been learning here to the Jam track follow along and we're going to work our way up the neck starting with uh an E chord and an a chord and we're eventually going to be playing them all over the place probably important to talk about what is an E chord basically an E chord is made up of e g sharp and B that's it so when you play this E chord down here all you're doing is playing a series of E's G Sharps and B's and we got some duplicates there that's about it what about an a chord an a chord is a C sharp and e that's it so if we play an A chord down here all we've got is A's we've got a C sharp and then we got a bunch of E's where's one there's one there one down there that's it a chord and E chord both of these chords are in the key of E major and all that means is that we're just using notes from an E major scale to make these chords so if we go e f sharp G sharp A B C sharp D sharp these are all the notes in an E major scale [Music] right so when we go to play an E major chord we're using the first third and fifth note of that E major scale and when we go to play an A chord we're using the fourth Sixth and first note of that scale but you don't need to know any of that all you need to know is that's why the green notes are there just to kind of be a little reminder that that's where these came from so when we go look at the notes just at the first couple Frets here we can see let's see so here we have in red just E's g g Sharps and B's and then in Orange here we've got a C sharp and E and one of the coolest things about this kind of track is you can hear someone's already playing the rhythm guitar in there doing this it's me [Music] and what that means is you don't have to do that you can pick individual notes you can play arpeggios which would be but as long as you're grabbing at least one e one G sharp and one B you can make something interesting to play along with this track you know something like this thank you [Music] right it's just kind of an interesting little rhythmic thing to do instead of just strumming the whole cord all you need is one of each note of the chord pretty cool one e one G sharp and one B at least you've got an E major chord one a one C sharp and one e and you've got an A major chord pretty nice so let's just scoot up a little bit here I'm going to grab an e a g sharp and a b and I'm just gonna kind of reveal a little bit more let's go up to the fifth fret here so here you can see oh we got a few more options we're down here we could either strum this whole cord or we could grab little pieces now we could do interesting things like for an E major chord that's kind of cool uh we could also grab this e this B this G sharp up here that's a really nice sound we could also go like this that's pretty nice so this is up to the fifth fret by the way if you are following along uh using the scratch paper here one great thing you could do at home and this might be a good thing to stop and pause uh would be two remember that e g sharp and B and then a C sharp and E and if you want to start filling out just up to the fifth fret for now but then you know keep going up and up as we keep going up and up here's all your E's G Sharps and B's down here and then we've gone all the way up to the fifth fret so far these little between notes by the way here it's important to remember that if you're trying to scoot a g up it looks like down on the page but up higher meaning toward the body of the guitar that means you're going to Sharp that note so this is a G sharp because we've scooched a g up if you want to learn more about that check out my online school but I don't wanna I don't want to get into that today so then over here I'm going to put all the A's and C Sharps that we've already found the cool thing is they share this e note but then we've got a and g sharp I have C sharp excuse me a and C sharp so we've already got these ones down here that we've explored what else can we do we could do something like this or we could do it's a little bit stretchy also not every voicing is equally difficult or equally easy you might find that grabbing one of each can sometimes be kind of hard to hard to figure out how to do like here's one that's really wonky that's uh not very easy but sometimes you just gotta experiment and see what happens so let's just Mark all the ones we've got so far here so there we go we've got some e uh some a some C sharp some e all the way up to the fifth fret here let's see if we can explore what this looks like to the Jam track here we go let's play around with some of those voicings just up to the fifth fret foreign [Music] and you know we're just exploring here so you know I'm not trying to make things sound perfect amazing this is part of practice we're just exploring tinkering figuring out what's available so now might be a good time to pause get your scratch paper out or your interactive online scratch paper check out the Jam track and see if you can just get comfortable with a couple extra choices up to the fifth fret once you feel comfortable unpause and uh we'll come back and explore a few more Frets here [Music] okay so I'm gonna assume that you have paused and maybe what we'll do is we'll just explore up the fingerboard a little bit more here so going back to e let's extend up to the seventh fret so all we're doing is just looking for more E's more B's more G Sharps so it looks like if we grab E's G Sharps and B's and we extend just up to the seventh fret wow we get a few more options you know we've still got this stuff down here that we've already talked about now we've got this stuff up to kind of the fourth and fifth fret here but we've got sixth fret and seventh fret here which b e g sharp just added a few more this gives us the opportunity to kind of go that's kind of fun this also gives us the opportunity to kind of go like this e g sharp B that one's a little bit stretchy uh here this one's not stretchy at all but it is a little deep could be fun for certain situations here's a cool one G sharp E and B what I'm doing is I'm barring these ones back here um yeah you don't have to play them the way I'm playing them you don't have to play all the same voicings I'm playing the idea here is just experiment with what you like what sounds fun to you let's scoot over to the a chord here and see what else we can find a C sharp E so it looks like if we extend up to the seventh fret with our a chord we get a couple more options so we've got that's nice it's not really a chord that you could strum but you could um play these one at a time which is kind of fun you can go here a e c sharp that's nice you can also grab this that's pretty cool that's actually pretty similar to that uh E chord that was down there a chord that's really nice you can go like this [Music] cool what else could you do you could do something like this that's kind of fun the idea here is just explore see what works for you yeah let's play The Jam track again just extend it up to the seventh fret and uh I'll play a little bit and you know maybe I'll include some of the the chords from down here and see if we can kind of bounce between this voicing and this voicing it just kind of makes things feel like they're moving around a little bit more even when you're playing the same chord [Music] thank you [Music] kind of fun so again pause practice check it out just up to the seventh fret and then when you feel like you're starting to get comfortable with it or when you're just curious to see what the rest of the neck looks like come on back you've always got more time to practice later but you know at least give yourself a chance to get familiar and so moving on let's see where we want to go from here if we grab that e g sharp and B that we had before let's see if we want to extend up to the ninth fret here we may want to go 10th fret yeah 10th fret sounds nice well there's nothing there's nothing in this chord on the 10th fret but yeah it'll be helpful for the a chord later you'll see but um so previously we had this kind of this is a in the Caged system this is actually a c shape And for those of you studying the cage system you might start recognizing a lot of these shapes uh you know D shape c shape here we are at the a shape if you don't know what any of that means don't worry about it forget it or go check out the cage system I got a few lessons on that on YouTube here and my patreon but we got just a few more options nothing too crazy mainly just this little strip of notes all on the same fret here I like these kinds of chords because you can either grab them with your third finger just bar all three or with your first finger it's no no real right way to do it there so let's fill this out on our chart here just so we can remember what we did looks like we've got a B an E and A G sharp and then let's erase that at and throw our a C sharp and E down and let's see what that looks like so here's a C sharp here's an e here's an a here's a C sharp um cool that's nice we've also got this little shape here [Music] it's kind of fun I like sliding up like that [Music] there's really no there's no correct thing to do here the idea is just explore Tinker find what you like Anyway let's try doing a little Jam track on this if you feel like you're struggling to come up with things on the Fly you know wow the Jam track is playing might be a good idea to just write out a few ideas and think okay maybe if I go uh from this voicing to this voicing and then I switch to this voicing and this voicing on the a chord you know you can really map those things out and you can practice them you can go okay here I'm going gonna go [Music] and you can strum you can finger pick whatever is easiest for you I'm using my fingers so that I can effortlessly grab my little pen at the same time so let's try this with the Jam track again and maybe what I'll do this time is I'll try to focus mostly on all the new kind of things we've found up here and then I'll maybe do another password I try bringing everything up and down the neck a little bit here we go so staying up high [Music] go [Music] it's just fun I just think it's so fun all right another chance for you to pause and practice just everything up to the 10th fret here I'm going to assume you paused and then we'll just keep working our way up to the 12th fret let's see what that looks like okay we got a few more options here for our E chord uh we've got we got kind of an interesting [Music] that's nice we could also do this or just that's nice these are all you could do one of these again so that's up to the 12th fret for the E major chord we we left off here and now we've got a couple extra options nothing too much looks kind of nice let's check out the a major chord A C sharp E so we left off kind of down here with this note and so we've got this extra one here [Music] you uh caged people um like me might recognize this as a c shape um I love playing this particular voicing of a major chord you can find it here for the A and down here for the E uh again our dots are on a right now but if you recognize e g sharp and B that's the E chord from before I can play that same shape way up here the more you learn the fingerboard the more you can recognize all these similar shapes or identical shapes and just move them up and down the fingerboard it's fantastic so let's mark this out on the scratch paper just so we can kind of see it in one different way because I think it's really useful to see things from a couple different perspectives um so that's what we have for the uh the E chord and the a chord up to the 12th fret maybe what I'll do this time is I'll Jam a little bit just in that 9 to 12 area so we can explore those voicings and see how they sound with the Jam track and then maybe I'll just do the Jam track again and see if we can start moving basically just multiple voicings of the same chord up and down the fingerboard and to me this just is a lot more fun than just strumming [Music] you know if you're doing this oh it's nice but it's wouldn't it be fun to go right to me that's like ooh that's creative that's I love doing that personally plus if someone else is already strumming you have some opportunities to do something kind of interesting and different and complementary playing with other people is all about being complimentary which I love anyway let's get this track going here we go so just trying to stay on these upper frets [Music] so that was just on the 9th and 12th let's see what happens when we just kind of explore the whole fingerboard so far [Music] thank you I forgot where I was going to go there I'm just exploring just uh yeah just tinkering around it's a lot of fun once you get to the 12th fret everything's an octave higher so the shapes that you see down here on e b e repeat themselves e b e so if this B and E has a little G sharp hanging out here then we're also going to have you know what I'm saying everything is an octave higher this is why sometimes you can play an E chord down here and then you can scoot it up to the 13th and 14th fret so essentially we're in repeat territory so everything you learned down here is gonna just become the exact same shape up here very cool um and it's going to be the same thing for the a chord here we got a C sharp and E just like you can play this this a chord down here where you're on the second fret the 12th fret is like is like the the nut the zero fret down here um and so the 14th fret is like the equivalent of the SEC the second fret down in open position so see how that same little shape across there so uh what this means is we're in kind of repetition territory and since we're on the a chord right now I'll just keep writing this in and you know I'll go up to the 17th fret here but see if you can see how this little shape right here looks the same as this shape right here when you compare on your own using scratch paper see if you can see that that similarity or not even similarity identical it's the same thing and then with the E chord we've got oops leaned on my mic we've got uh the same kind of thing going on here if I just extend this let's extend this a chord all the way up you'll start seeing that repeating pattern where we've got this guy and then we've got this guy we've got foreign is the same as we get some repetition pretty cool and it's the same with the E major just to really bring it home here if we want to play G sharp b e here and then we want to play excuse me b e g sharp here we can also play [Music] same same so with a little bit of work working you know section by section up the fingerboard you now have all the tools you need to put something together like this [Music] thank you [Music] [Laughter] [Music] pretty cool if you want to learn not just how to do more stuff like this but understand how it works so that you don't have to have someone teach it to you every time and you can kind of figure it out for yourself maybe you want to be in a band and you want to be a lead guitar player rhythm guitar player maybe you have always wanted to write music maybe you just want to understand how the guitar works better and you want to learn more about the Caged system or strumming patterns or you know whatever my my patreon my online music school is all about um sort of blending creativity and helping you uh explore the most fun part of Music which is making music with uh music theory and how things work and kind of tying those things together so that you can learn more about music and more about the guitar uh while also being creative and making the instrument feel like it's yours I love that stuff it's really fun anyways thanks for watching uh I'll see you next time take care [Music] thank you

Channel: Scott Paul Johnson

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Keywords: CAGED System, Guitar Lesson, Guitar Neck, guitar fingerboard, scales, tutorial, how to, simple, beginner, basic, newbie, acoustic, electric, triads, Jam, Jam track, Play along, practice, chords, up the neck

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Length: 23min 53sec (1433 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 11 2022