I've been through the desert on a horse with no name. It felt good to be out of the rain. In the desert, you can't remember your name. But there ain't no one for to give you no pain. Hey guys, this is how to play a horse with no name. We've only got two chords in this song, exactly the same throughout the entire song. And the chords are fairly easy. This is all about the strumming really. And it's a beautiful song as well. If you've been looking at some of the 16 strumming patterns we've been doing recently, this one's been going to be a great one that's a much more attainable for the average guitar player and will work you towards some of those trickier strumming, such as the Ed Sheeran songs, for example. So we have first of all our chords, we have E minor. I do E minor with my first two fingers. Some people play it differently. There's little right or wrong, but we're going to go for our first two fingers in this lesson. And then we move our first finger up a string, staying to the same fret, everything at the second fret, and your middle finger comes down a string. It can be tricky to get that chord ringing out, so you can use your third finger if you prefer, if that stretches a bit too much for you. But I'm going to play it with my first two fingers and I'm ulching both of them as close to this side of that second fret as possible. All six strings should ring out for both chords. And from there for the whole song, we have a bar of each of those chords, that are of a chord embellishments that you can do, but as I say we're focusing on the strumming for this lesson. So we need a bar of each chord, which simplest way to do that is just strumming on the beat. It's not the cheeriest song to play so far. The E minor chord certainly does make things sound sad, but the strumming really lifts things up. You'll notice that a lot of the pop songs we've done recently have had a lot of minor chords in them. It's the rhythm and the strumming that really picks things up again. And we have a two-bar rhythm. Both of those chords, each one has a different strumming pattern over it. A slow demonstration first of all. So the first bar on the E minor, we pick our thickest string, string six. Strum everything on beat two, and then we hit the end with an upstroke on the end of that, with a swing groove. So one, two and it's kind of snatched. We'll just demo that twice. Let me do that in a loop for you, and I'd encourage you guys to do the same when you're doing this at home, and feel free to play along. Two, three, four. And then on the second chord, the rhythm is changed completely with two upstrung in a row. Let's go for a demo of that first of all. In a slow loop. To work on the strumming pattern as a whole, let's just stay on the E minor chord and do the whole strumming pattern. That would sound like. Up, up, up, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, up, up, up, up, down. If you can't quite pick up when I'm saying root, or when I'm playing root, you can swap that just for just a down strum. So that would be slightly simpler. Up, up, up, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, up, up, up, up, down. And when you've got a hang on that, we can go off of both chords, so you change in the middle. It is on the beat, so it's not as hard as it could be, but let me demo that first of all. Just without the root notes, first of all. With the root note, root, down, up, root, down, up, up, up, down, up, and root, down, up, up, up, down, up, up, down, up, down. And that will loop for the whole song. If you want to sing along as well, start off with the La La La's bit, the chorus, and it's, that's the part that I would recommend having to go again, sync top to your strumming first of all. La La la. Lots of fun and only two chords allowing us to work on those strumming patterns. Thanks for checking out this lesson, please subscribe if you like what I do, and check out my playlist of lots of these two chord songs, either at the website at andiguitar.co.uk or on the main channel page. Now there's loads of playlists to make all these lessons much easier to find. Give this one a like if you did it and I'm sure I'll see you again. Bye for now.