Lauren Bateman shows how to play G, Cadd9, Em7, and Dsus by keeping two fingers locked on the 3rd fret while moving just your index and middle fingers. The trick makes transitions smoother and the chords sound brighter than standard shapes. Practice with Sugarland or Green Day songs.
Hey, guitar enthusiast Lauren Bateman here. In this lesson we're going to learn four ways for you to play my stuck like glue chords, which are easier ways to get into the C, G, E minor and D chords. So let's check it out.
As a little fun side note, there actually was a song called Stuck Like Glue written by Sugarland that uses the chords we're going to go over right now. These four chords, there are different variations on a G chord, a C chord, an E minor chord and a D chord. And they're used very commonly, particularly in singer songwriter type music. And they have a very bright sound to them. So this would be a G chord and this would be the other G chord much brighter versus a C chord and my stuck like glue C chord, which is actually technically called a C add nine chord. But don't worry about the music theory side of it. We're here to just learn how to play it. So let me go through each chord one by one. Now the basis for this entire lesson is that we're going to be using the third finger and the fourth finger and they're going to be stuck like super glued to the bottom two strings on the third and fourth, the bottom two strings on the third fret. So they're both in the third fret piled right on top of each other on the B string and the E string. And if you keep those two fingers here, all we have to do to learn these chords is worry about what the other two fingers are doing. You never have to move them. So let's talk about how to get into our G chord. And if you know how to make a G chord, you just plop it right down. Really nothing different. We're using the same fingers. The first finger is going to end up on the second fret of the fifth string and the second finger is going to end up on the top string third fret. And it sounds like this. So we have our two fingers glued to the bottom and the second finger is top string third fret. First finger is second fret on the fifth string. Now to get into our next chord which is the CAD9 chord. It's super easy. All we're going to do is move our first finger down one fret and our second finger down one fret and we have SEAD 9. Super simple, right? These fingers do not move. Remember, they're stuck like super glue. So go back to the G chord, we move C, second finger up, first finger up. To go back to the CAD9 chord, we're going to first finger down, second finger down, and that's your C chord. Now to go to the E minor. It's more like an E minor 7 chord. We're going to move the first finger up a string and the second finger is going to come right below it. Second fret of the fourth string, just like you're making an E minor chord, except you have these two fingers stuck like glue on the bottom. So if we go from G, we have G.
Move first finger down, second finger down C, get to E minor 7, first finger up, second finger over. There's that. And then to get to a DSUS chord, move your first finger to the second fret of the third string. Okay, so back to E minor 7, lift up the second finger and then move the first finger down, third string, second fret. Very bright D chord. So this is your normal D chord. This is your dsus. Very, very bright sounding chord.
Sounds familiar, huh? Okay, so like I said, these chords are used a lot in kind of singer songwriter esque songs. So let's go through that one more time. We've got a G chord.
The C chord, the E minor 7, and the D sus chords. Practice that and go ahead and try and learn some songs that might have these chords. Good suggestions would be that Sugar Land Stuck Like Glue, or you could do Green Day, Time of youf Life is another chord that kind of another song that uses these chords. There's lots of songs that use these chords and you can even switch these out for the traditional G, C and D chords. They just sound a little bit brighter than the regular ones. So I hope you guys enjoyed my stuck like glue cord lesson and make sure to give a like and a comment and watch another video in my series.
