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Basic Guitar - The E Chord

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Franklin Taggart
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Franklin Taggart is a guitarist, singer/songwriter, recording engineer and record producer based in Silver Spring, MD. He's played guitar since 1975 and has been involved in some aspect of performing, recording and composing ever since then. He also is a well known guitar teacher in the Washington, DC area. He has been nominated for many WAMMIE awards from the Washington Area Music Association, winning the Traditional Folk Instrumentalist category in 2001. His first CD Falling All the Way has received excellent reviews from a variety of sources and was also nominated for seven WAMMIE's.

Basic Guitar - The E Chord

This is a video collection of fingerings for many standard guitar chords that easily describe how to place each finger to successfully make each chord.

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Hi, I am Franklin Taggart. I am a guitar player and a guitar teacher. I would like to show you how to play an E chord. For the E chord, your first finger plays the first fret of the third string. Your middle finger plays the second fret of the fifth string, and your ring finger plays the second fret of the fourth string. For the E chord, you play all six strings, thats how you play an E chord.

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