Lauren Bateman teaches three guitar chords using only one finger at the second fret. Move your finger across strings to play E, A, and D power chords, then practice switching between them.
Hey, guitar enthusiast Lauren Bateman here. In this video we're going to go over three simple chords. I think they're the easiest chords to play because they only require one finger. So let's get into the video.
There's going to be three chords that I'm going to show you in this video. They're the A chord, the D chord and the E chord. So the cool thing about these three chords, A, D and E, the way I'm going to show them one, you only need one finger, probably the easiest way to play guitar. And also, if you learn these three chords, you're going to know how to play lots and lots of songs. I'll actually link to a few down below in the description of this video. So like I said, we're going to use our first finger. We're mainly going to be working off of this second fret on the guitar. So let's go through how to play these three chords. The first one we're going to start with is the easy E chord. Okay? All we're going to do is take our first finger and we're going to put it on the second fret of the fifth string. And what I want you to do is I want you to strum the top string and the fifth string together. This is an E power chord.
Okay? You want to just try and get those top two strings. So again, we're going to use our first finger, put it on the second fret of the fifth string.
That is our E chord. The next chord we're going to talk about is an A chord, alright? And all we're going to do. So we just learned the E chord which was the first finger on the fifth string. Second fret. All I want you to do is I just want you to move this one finger down one string. So we're going from the fifth string to the fourth string. And now all I want you to do with your picking hand is pick the fifth and fourth strings together.
Okay? So so far we've learned E major.
And we've learned D major.
So the D chord again, one finger. Let's start with that E chord. We're going to work our way down to the D chord. So we got the E chord was the fifth string. First finger on the fifth string. The A chord was the first finger on the fourth string. Well, the D chord is going to be the first finger on the third string. Alright? So we have E, a D. Alright, E, A D. And you can see I'm just moving my first finger down one string. So you can just practice that going 5, 4, 3, 5, 4 3. And on the D chord, we're just trying to hit the middle two strings, the fourth and third. Alright. You can use chords like this to play songs like Kansas City or Walk the Line. I'll put a couple examples like I said in the description below. And if you're looking for more easy, simple chords to learn songs with, check out my Two Fingered Chord variations. I'll put a video right over here. You guys can go check that out. Or if you want to learn a song with these chords, you can check that out down there.
