Ok. So the A formation bar chord based off of the A chord.
We are going to do something a little bit different with this chord.
We're going to take these three fingers and replace them with just the pinky.
This can be done because all of the notes are on the same fret and they are right next to each other.
So instead of fretting it like this take the pinky put our thumb behind and then we are going to
bend or hyperextend our pinky so that we are hitting those three notes.
That alone is kind of difficult and can even be somewhat painful if you haven't done it before but you are kind of bending your
pinky back just a little bit and you're using this last section of your pinky to grab those three strings.
We are going to do the same thing and those three strings are the D string, G string and B string.
You want to make sure when you are doing this you are leaving room for your E string to be open.
The tendency is to accidentally deaden that because you are not bending your finger enough.
Bend your finger get it off that high e string a lot of that's going to be thumb position.
If you're thumb is too high up over here it's going to be harder to do that if your thumb is behind it will be easier.
We're going to do the exact same thing with that, that we did with the E form chord.
We're going to start on the second fret though and we're going to move it around.
Back down.
Likely your pinky will be very tired after that. Shake it off, don't over do it.
Now you're going to combine this exercise with doing your first finger bar exercise.
So essentially what we have is in this chord when you combine those two you've got a double bar chord.
For your A chord though you don't need to worry necessarily about barring over your low E string
because you're not going to play it.
So your first finger bar only needs to be with your fifth through your first string.
What you want to do this bar you want to rest so that your first finger is actually muting your low E string.
Practice moving that around a little bit.
You don't want to play your low E string anyway but in case you accidentally do it'll be muted.
Now we're going to combine them.
This is one of the harder things to get used to because you're bending your pinky in a weird way
and it takes just a lot of hand strength.
I really recommend starting this if you're not already following these lessons on an electric guitar, I really recommend
starting on an electric because it takes a lot less hand strength to sound good doing it.
Once you are comfortable on an electric moving these techniques to an acoustic is a little bit easier.
Starting with an acoustic with some of these techniques is like starting with lifting weights that are too heavy for you
and then working backward it just doesn't really make sense.
What we are going to do is we are going to combine the bar with your first finger with the bar on your fourth finger.
I find it easier to establish with this chord form to establish your first finger first, get that clean,
then add your bar over to the side.
Remember there is a fret in between here.
You're not doing this.
There is a fret in between and that makes sense because when you're playing your A chord there is a fret
you're not playing anything on.
We're going to come up here to your third fret, get your first finger in place, make sure that's clean
and then put your fourth finger on and strum.
Make sure again when you're doing it that you're bending this finger enough that you're letting those things ring through.
Move that around.
Then back down.
Some people's fingers don't bend that way. Eventually you will probably develop the technique.
If it's easier for you to play your A chord like this and then move your actual A chord up
so your first finger is free and then bar like this.
If that's easier for you that will work and you can certainly do that switching from your E to your A form
and that makes a lot of sense until you start getting up here on these higher frets where it's awfully hard to fit all three of these
fingers in that one fret and it gets kind of messy.
Experiment either way.
Experiment moving this A form chord around and then experiment moving it around with just your pinky.
You can go to whichever one is more comfortable for you but it's a good idea to have both techniques down
in case you're playing things up here.
It helps to have that double bar positioning to get things clean.
All of the exercises I outlined today, the first finger up and down, the moving your E chord around, moving your A chord
around, double bar as well as the minor chord forms that we worked on earlier and the tablature for the track.
All of that stuff in addition to an outline of this lesson is available in the supplemental material.
So if you haven't been following along with those already during the lessons check those out.
You can go back and review some of the things we've done in this video to see visuals.
Feel free to message me questions as well as look me up on live Q and A or ask any of the teachers here questions.
Hopefully the lessons so far have been beneficial to you.
We will see you soon for beginner lesson seven.