In this lesson, we will talk about the ACE us to court. If you're wondering, so stands for suspended. Let's get to it. You're going to take your middle finger and place it on the second fret of the D string. Then you'll take your ring finger and place it on the second fret of the G. And you can notice it's actually the same shape as the E minor chord. So if you know your E minor chord, really all you have to do is just hop over instead of the strings.
Got your a sus two chord. Now the only difference is that a sus two is played from the A string down so from this string down or with the pick. Again, I would highly recommend you use the pick from a string down Start strumming down, go up. Now when you strum up, if you're not gonna play some of the lower strings here, you can just really play focus on the higher strings. So for example, here's down, then try that a few times. Just a couple reminders.
I'm just gonna put my pick back here so I can point out some things. Remember to have your fingers curved. Remember to have space between the palm of your hand and the neck of the guitar. Remember to have your thumb not like this, but somewhere on the bottom of the neck, okay. And that should really help with finger strength and with just flexibility and so on. Now, you want to try to have all the strings to wring out Didn't need to ring out, right?
You don't want to have something like this. So a lot of Miss common mistakes when you're first starting out is that a finger that's being pressed down on one string, just great is getting in the way of another string. So do the best you can to be aware of that now so you can try and avoid that. All I needed to do was just curved my finger up a little more to get that B string to ring out. have that nice Ace us two sound. Now let's practice both the E minor and a sus two chord.
In most songs, you're going to be transitioning from one chord to the next. Throughout the song, you might do it really fast. Or it might be something that's Not as fast. Okay, so let's practice that. So play the E minor four times 234, then hop on over to the a sus two chord, remember, it's just the same shape as the E minor. So you can just kind of hop over a set of strings there.
Now if you're still struggling, it's okay. You can do one finger at a time. Remember that a sus two, it's the middle finger second fret on the D string, the ring finger second fret on the G. Now the chord diagrams also going to be up there so you can pause it at any time and just slowly figure that out right now. strum the SS two, four times. So let's do that again. E minor four times 1234 a sus two four times one, two.
234 And you want to try and smooth out that transition as best you can. And once again, as a reminder, it's important to practice these concepts a little bit each day. And as you learn more chords and build on different guitar techniques, it's good to practice the transitions between certain techniques that you use, for example, going from one chord to the next, as we just talked about, so maybe spend five minutes on that right now, if you can, just transitioning from E minor, to the HS two chord. And that'll really help you learn not only the SS two chord, but how to eventually play through a chord progression, which we'll get into later and a song