In this lesson, you're going to learn the tiny yet mighty d chord.
Now this chord is one that feels like your fingers are crammed all in the same
place and that's totally okay once your fingers to get comfortable next to one
another. So let's learn where to put our fingers for the d cord.
Now this might feel a little pretzely, but bear with me you're going to,
you're going to get this core.
This is just one lesson in a series where I'll take you from zero to guitar
player in 30 days by teaching you the four superfund skills that'll get you
hooked on guitar. Before you get started,
you'll need to download the tabs course guide and 30 day checklist to get yours.
Just click on the link in the video or visit 30 days to play.com so for the d
court, you're going to take your middle finger,
place it on the second fret of the high e string.
Your ring finger is going to reach up and it's going to grab the third fret of
the beast strength and your index finger is going to grab the second fret of the
g string. Okay? So as I mentioned, your fingers are pretty close together.
Once you get this chord shape,
I want you to start with your pick on the d string, play the d string,
the g string, the B string, and the high e, something like this,
right? Once you play that,
you're going to notice whether or not your cord and each,
each string sounds clear. If it sounds something like this,
you get this weird buzz or maybe a thought or something like that,
then you have to make small adjustments.
Oftentimes it's the smallest adjustment that will make your chord sound clear,
and in this case,
since we're fretting over a lot of strings that need to be ringing,
it's imperative that you introduce our arch into your fingers,
okay?
Then you do that by bringing your fretting hand palm closer to the fretboard and
that'll put a little bit more arch in those fingers and allow those strings to
fret. Over the strings that should be ringing, okay? Remember,
you want to be right up on your fingertips.
Once you clean up the cord and each string is ran clearly,
what I want you to do then is to triumphantly strum from the d strength through
the high e because you now know a d chord. Okay?
And again,
the next thing that usually comes up when first learning chords is like, cool,
well I got the cord once.
I don't want to let go of it because I'm afraid I'll forget where my fingers go.
Well, over time your fingers will learn where to go.
Your fingers will remember well where to go and your muscles will develop that,
that essential muscle memory so that each time you want to play a d chord,
it's seemingly magically your fingers will fall into place. Now,
I know that seems far off right now, but it's really not.
And one of the exercises that's going to help you get there is one called the
quickdraw exercise where you have a small limited time frame to make the cord
and then strum it. I'll walk you through an example right now,
I'm going to give you a five second countdown. And when I say zero,
I want you to strum your d chord. Okay? But here's trick.
Your hand has to start on your leg. So when the countdown starts,
that's when you start making the court. So let's just,
let's just walk through on right now,
we're gonna start at five and when I say zero,
you're going to strum that d court. So here we go, five, four,
three, two, one zero.
So hopefully by that time you were able to make the d chord, but if you weren't,
that's okay. It's got, like I said,
it's gonna take time to develop that muscle memory and remember where your
fingers go. But the good news is,
is you're going to have a chance to do that quick dry exercise over and over and
over again, because in the following play through exercise,
what I'm going to do is give you a five second window and I'm going to loop
those.
So you really get a chance to drill the d court and make sure that you make it
clean and consistent every single time. So let's get started.
This is just one lesson in a series where I'll take you from zero to guitar
player in 30 days by teaching you the four super fund skills that'll get you
hooked on guitar. Before you get started,
you'll need to download the tabs course guide and 30 day checklist to get yours.
Just click on the link in the description or visit 30 days to play.com.