Fantastic news there ninevolt and glad I gave you at least some help! In the future when you will advance as a player you probably might start playing A chord with fingers 1 2 3 or 2 3 4 on strings from thickest to thinnest. In this case it will be just a matter of moving finger 4 from second to third fret on B string. Personally I think this is easier, you might want to give it a go but if you prefer keeping fingering as per Justinâs lessons in Grade 1 that is fine too.
Interestingly I can see Justin shows the fingering as I do it in this lesson and as per chart below, which sort of contradicts to how he teaches A chord in Grade 1. Doesnât really matter as itâs the same chord but I wonder when and if he suggests at all switching the way one plays A chord.
This makes me think of Put Your Lights On (Everlasting & Santana), which I think does a lot of this. Not sure if you have a video on that song, but Iâm going to try and figure it out. Signe by Eric Clapton is another.
Doesât that feel like a hard pull in the topside op your hand?
You are forcing a sharp angle with your fingers and it hurts my hand looking at that picture!
This is an Esus but look how gently bent his fingers are versus your tight angle.
try to divide the angles over every joint of your hand and fingers instead of putting all the engle in one joint.
Donât mind that thumb, that is for another time. IF you canât get your hands to loosen up properly, you might need to shift to that thumb position sooner or later. Though, I only suggest shifting to that playing technique as soon as you are progressed far enough to get into âHendrix styleâ chord grips, where the thumb position is crucial to begin with.
Either way, I tihknt, looking at those pics, your hand needs to tilt a bit to avoid tension.
Master Yoda would say: hmm yes, much tension I see, loosen up that hand you must!
Perhaps start of with making sure you start gripping it like this
Donât over extend it for now though
try to approach a more relaxed grip, something that looks like this
Really appreciate the feedback Lieven, thanks a bunch! As I continue practicing, Iâve found that less and less of the sharp angle you describe is needed to achieve the Asus4 shape. Also, Iâve noted that if I switch to playing the Asus4 with fingers 2, 3, and 4 as Adrian brought up earlier, things loosen up considerably. Iâll experiment with the suggestions you gave and try to keep Yodaâs voice in the back of my head â cheers!
Youâre already loosening up, thatâs great.
Itâs not the most obvious thing to do.
Itâs things like this dat make up good or bad habits that become a foundation in your playing.
Itâs good that you approach this matter in a critical matter. In most cases, lesser tension is better ^^
Exactly the same problem! My pinky will just not go where it should. I have to really concentrate to get the little finger where is should go which takes ages and never reaches the fret, and like yours, slides up to the 3rd finger. This is gong to be a long battle.
I have to say that the sus chord exercises for this lesson donât make sense. The video lesson describes exercises for the D, Dsus2 and Dsus4 chords, and this works OK, as the basic D chord grip is used for 2, 3 or 4 finger options, which matches the options in the exercises.
The text in the Learn More sections talks about exploring the A and E shapes, but the fingering for the A shape is nothing like the basic A chord fingering so using 2, 3 or 4 fingers as noted in the exercises doesnât work, without changing the fingers a lot! Where do I put 4 fingers for the A shape exercises?
With suspended A chords, try to use the basic Am grip as your starting point. If you lift off finger 1, you get A sus2. If you fret the B string at the 3rd fret with your pinky, you get Asus4. You can also try to fit finger 1 âunderâ the others at the 2nd fret to play the open A major chord.
The latter can be used for Esus4 as well, only 1 string âupâ vertically. For Esus2 a bit more practice is needed. I like to think of it as an âopenâ power chord due to the similarity of the shape, but you can approach it from the root 5 barre Bm chord, too. Itâs worth trying as itâs a very nice-sounding chord. Makes me think of The Who as it sounds quite familiar from the Tommy album.
Hey josef. I have one more question .
According to justins chord diagram
Esus2 notes are E B F B B E.
If the 3rd G# is swapped with the 2nd , it should be F# . So it should be
E B F F# B E.
two things might be happening .
1 . I get something wrong or
2 . The diagram is incorrect .
Plz help me because i need it for my chord book and i need it in its correct form .
Thanks
Youâre correct, there has to be an F# in the Esus2 chord. Finger 3 in the diagram is on the F# note (fret 4 string 4) and the octave shape for B should be familiar.
but if you prefer keeping fingering as per Justinâs lessons in Grade 1 that is fine too.
