FIRST TWO CHORDS To Learn On Guitar - Em and D6/9 Guitar Chords

Hello and welcome back to the course. Hopefully you've gone through all the intro material so that we can get into learning our first chord so that we can really start having fun with our guitar. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to show you two chords that I show my guitar students. And the reason I show them these two chords is because it's really easy to get in and out of them and, and gets you started working on getting your fingers moving. But also, if we learn these two chords, I can already show you your first song. That's right. So if you learn these two chords, there's a song out there that you can play. So the first chord we're going to start with is an E minor chord. And then we're going to follow that up with a D69 chord. And I'm going to show you with the guitar out here. And then I'm going to go in for a close up so that you can see exactly where my fingers are being placed on the strings. So first, let's start with the E minor chord. So we are going to start in the second fret of the guitar. So both of these chords live in the second fret of the guitar. And what we're going to do is we're going to take our first finger and we're going to place it on the fifth string of the second fret. And we're going to put our second finger right below it on the fourth string, second fret. So if I do that again, we're going to go to the very top fat string. And we're going to come up to the second fret and we're going to move that first finger down to the fifth string and then we're going to put the second finger right below it on the fourth string. And if you play all six strings, you have an E minor chord. It sounds like that. So I'll do that one more time. We're going to take our first finger, we're going to go to the fifth string on the second fret and we're going to take our second finger and put it immediately below that other finger on the second fret of the fourth string. And that is our E minor chord. Now to get to our second chord, I want you to stay on this E minor chord because we're just going to move the fingers up and down a string. So the first finger, we're going to lift it up and move it up to the top string and we're going to take the second Finger and move it down to the third string.

If you strum all six strings, you have this really nice sounding chord. So both of my fingers are stitched living in that second fret. Now to get back to E minor, we're going to take the first finger, which is on the top string now, and move it down to the fifth string. And we'll take the second finger, which is on the third string, and move it up to the fourth string. And now we're on E minor again. So to go back to D69, take that first finger, move it up one string, take your second finger, move it down one string, D69, take it back to E minor, take the first finger, move it down one string, take the second finger, move it up one string, and we're back to E minor.

So those are your first two chords. What I'm going to do is I'm going to go in for a close up to show you both of these chords and how to get in and out of them. Welcome to the close up. I'm going to show you the E minor and the D69 chord. So we're going to be focusing on this second fret, this block here. We're going to take our first finger and we're going to put it on the fifth string second fret. And our second finger is going to go right below on this fourth string second fret. We get to play all six strings. Alright, so one more time to get to E minor, first finger goes to the fifth string, second fret, second finger goes right below it on the fourth string second fret. So it should look like this. And we get to strum all six strings. Now to get to D6, 9, we're going to take the second finger and move it down one string. And the first finger is going to move up one string. So we end up on the sixth string and the third string. To get back to E minor, take the first finger down a string and the second finger up a string.

To get back to D69, first finger up one string, second finger down one string, back to E minor, first finger down a string, second finger up a string. One last time, back to D69. First finger up one string, second finger down. And to get back to E minor, first finger down, second finger up. And that's how you switch between e Minor and D69. Now that you've learned both of these chords, all you have to do is practice going between them back and forth. This is where your metronome comes in handy. Set your metronome for a very slow speed. Or if you want, you can work with the clock and time it for 60 seconds and just strum between the two chords and work on getting the speed as fast as you can. Because if you look up a song called Horse with no Name, it's by the band America, you can actually play that entire song with just those two chords. It just goes from E minor to D 69. E minor to D 69. So if you look that song up, once you've got these chords and you've got them memorized and you're moving between them at a pretty good clip, you can actually go and play that song. So practice these two chords, and when you're ready, you can move on to your next set of chords.