Do you already know how to play a C chord? If so, feel free to skip this video, if not keep watching, and I'll show you exactly how you can play this chord. So here I've got a C chord again, so you can see it visually how it looks. But basically what we're going to do is we're going to start with the, with a ring finger as sort of our anchor here. So this is hitting the bass note, this is an actual C note. And so this is actually on the A string, and it's on the third fret, so you can start on the ending and just count up 123.
And that'll be your bottom note. And with this chord, you actually won't be playing all six streams, because you're not going to play this low. It's okay if you do play it. In fact, if you throw it in, it doesn't sound that bad. But traditionally, you would just play this without using that low E. And it would sound like that. So as you can see, there's not a big difference there.
But anyway, we'll be anchoring it with this ring finger right here on the third fret and then you'll take your your middle finger, put on the second fret of the string above that. So it's your first tune. So that's the D string, second fret. And then next you leave a open string. And then you go to the D string. And you're actually going to put your pointer finger down on it.
And you might find that there's a little bit of, maybe it won't sound so good, it won't be a little bit of a lack of resonance, I guess. You might have something that's like, kind of like that maybe. And the way to solve that is by moving your fingertips. Instead of being weighed out here. You want to move them right up against the metal fret right here. And you can do that with all of them.
So this first one without the second one, and then and the final note that you'll be playing This chord is the high Eastern Ah, so that's just this one down here and you'll just be leaving it open. You only have three fingers down and then the rest of the streams are just wide open. So keep practicing that until it sounds smooth. Also, you will notice at this point so your guitars have probably gone out of tune by now. That's all right, cheaper guitars tend to go out of tune really quickly, as well as guitars that have newer strings. So go ahead and tune up as often as you need to.
And that's it for this lesson. If you need more help with see you can jump into the later chapter and if not, the next video will show you the fourth and final chord that you need to know so that you can start playing these next 10 songs that I have for you