Do you already know how to play D major chord? If so, feel free to skip this video, if not keep watching, and I'll show you exactly how to play it. This is our fourth and final chord that you need to know so that you can go play the next 10 songs. And in fact, there's thousands of songs that you can play with just these four chords that I just taught you. And so we'll get more into that later in the course. But right now, I just want to teach it to you not so that you can necessarily master it and play it flawlessly every time but I want you to learn it just well enough that you can start breezing through these songs and getting practice in a real life context with how the chords work.

So the D chord sounds like this. And this is actually one of the easier ones to play. It does involve playing with three fingers at once. And so it's not necessarily that it's as easy as the E minor chord because that was only using two of your fingers. But with the D, they're very close together and so you can have a very comfortable wrist position. If you remember the G A lot of people were sticking the wrist out to try to get it but with the D You can be very Close and comfortable.

And I think you'll actually enjoy playing this chord a lot. It's, it's just a very solid feeling chord that just feels really good on a guitar. So the way that you'll play it is you'll actually start on the open D string, which is this one right here. So you're going to skip the open A string and skip the or sorry, skip the open E string and a string. And then you'll just start right here. So this takes a little bit of stormy practice, if you do end up hitting those lower notes, that's okay, too, because it doesn't necessarily sound that bad in the context of a song.

And both of those are technically in G major. So they technically in the right key regardless, so if you're playing it, according to a textbook, it would sound like this. And if you're playing it by adding those other couple of strings right here, it will sound like this. So this, versus this. So you see, it just sounds a little more dense, but it's not that bad. So we'll be starting with that open D string.

Right here, so go ahead and find that just leave it open. And then you take your pointer finger and put it on the second fret of the G string. So the string right here, and then you got your open one, two, you'll be right there on the two point finger. Go ahead and find that again, if it's not coming on very solid, move it up there, and then you take your ring finger and place it on the third fret of the string right above that. So sound like this so far. Again, if it's not coming out solid like that or something, just try to move it up and don't push so hard that it kills your fingers.

You don't want to do that. You want to find the place on the pads of your fingers where it feels nice and comfortable. And this this will get easier with time because you build up calluses on your fingertips. But for now, it might hurt just a little bit to play that And then the last thing you do is you take your middle finger, they place it on the second fret of the high E string. So go ahead and find that. And then all together, it'll sound like this, you got your open D, the pointer finger, second fret, and then your ring finger, third fret and the middle finger of the second fret.

So that's a D chord. And I know I went through this rather quickly. And I know that some of you a lot of you, coming into this course, already knew these chords. That's why I gave you the option to skip these lessons. But a lot of you are brand new, and these probably went too fast for you. If that was the case for you.

All you got to do is jump into a later chapter of the course where I do this Exact same exercise of teaching you these four chords, minor, G, C and D. But I walked through it much more slowly and I talked about specific ways that you can make it easier and I address all of the questions that I see with my students when I'm teaching these chords in person. So if you need extra help jump into that chapter, if not jump into the next lesson, and we're going to actually apply these chords into real life songs.