Hi guys, David Aldridge here. Welcome to knocking on heaven’s door. Guitar tutorial.
This song is originally by Bob Dylan and is the perfect song for beginner guitarists and consists of four chords. You’ll get to impress all your family and friends with this one. I appreciate you for taking the time for being here today. So let’s jump straight in showing you each cord and where to place your fingers. And you can also follow the core boxes that are on the screen. So we’re going to, first of all, find G so the third finger goes here. The third frat little finger at the third fret. The second finger goes on string six at frat three, and then the first finger goes on. String five, the second frat on this cord, we want a string, all six strings.
Okay, there we go. That’s G and then we’re gonna change the D and what we can do here is we can lead the third finger down, cause that’s already in the correct place. I refer to this as an anchor finger, and then we’re gonna place the first finger on string three of fret, two rings three at fret two. And then the second finger is gonna go on string one at fret two. Now on the chord of D, we string from string four only. Okay. So the next cord is a minor. So we’re gonna place the first finger on string two at frat one. Then the second finger is gonna go on string four at frat two, and then we’re gonna tuck the third finger underneath on string three at fret two. And then we want a strummed string five, and we have the cord of a minor. So just one more cord left to do, which is C. So we’re gonna place our third finger on string five at fret three. And then our second finger is gonna go on string four at fret two. And then the first finger is gonna go on string two at fret one like this, and then we’re gonna strum from string five.
Okay. So let’s jump into the next part of the tutorial where we gonna piece all that together. So we’re gonna do four down strums on G then we’re gonna change to D and you can see here that we’re gonna keep this finger on the second string and we can just fall onto D just making sure we’re trimming from string four. So four down strums on D and then we’re gonna change to a minor, and we’re gonna do another set of four on a minor. And then we’re gonna jump back to the chord of G and then change to D and this time we’re gonna change to C in two sets of four. All right. So that’s the chord progression sequence all the way through the song. So you might want to just practice that. First of all, just cementing those chords. I’m gonna show you a strumming pattern that can be used for this song. Consider giving us a like, and subscribe to the channel. It helps to support future videos and build a community of people, just like you, who feel like they matter. Also, we have more videos at davidguitarcoach.co.uk I hope to see you there.
So we’re going keep with the four down strums, but after the fourth downstream, we’re gonna add up strums. Just play along with me. If you can. I hope you had fun as I taught you this song today. Remember you have what it takes to be good at guitar. There are more videos at this level and the link below you can also visit my website now and get access to my online courses.