My name is KJ and I play Griffin in The Last Summer.

And Archie Andrews in Riverdale.

And I’m Maia Mitchel and I play Phoebe in The Last Summer.

Today we’re gonna teach you some guitar basics.

Let me explain some of the parts of the guitar.

You have six strings, usually.

Some have twelve. But this one, and her one, have six.

First string is an E.

Second string's an A.

Next one's a D.

Next one's a G.

And the next one's a B. I think. It's a B.

The last one is a E.

Together...

There are some saying that you can use to help, you know memorize those strings, but

really it's just six strings, so let's just try and-

But do you have a saying?

I don't have any saying. I just memorized it.

Now that we know what each of the strings are, we can start with warm up exercises

with KJ.

Usually for me when I'm warming up it's good to I guess go through some scales.

We have a Minor Pentatonic scale.

That's a minor Pentatonic.

And you can also play that like this.

And weren't you gonna play us a song?

Yes, we're gonna learn "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star".

Ok.

We're gonna figure it out.

Ok, let's figure that out.

Play the G.

Ok!

Do you think you can suss the cords out?

Maybe.

Ok.

One, two, three, four!

Pretty good for a first go!

Pretty good for a first go. Pretty good!

It got a little rock n' roll, though.

It was pretty, the-

Yeah!

I started playing guitar when I was like twelve, thirteen.

And throughout high school, that was kind of what I did.

I was, you know, in music class and performing.

Music is important to me, because it's kind of how I first started to express myself artistically.

I was a dancer.

I loved singing, I loved performing.

That was a huge part of my life growing up.

I've been playing since I was about eleven.

I started for the first three years on YouTube.

It's pretty easy to just like, jump online and search stuff up.

And just like listening to stuff I guess.

And then I, when I started taking it more seriously I started taking lessons.

The first song I learned how to play, I think it was...

It was, I think it was "Sweet Home Alabama"!

Yeah.

That's the song that actually inspired me to play the guitar, I heard my friend's, my

friend's brother was playing it.

And I was like, I wanna do that! I wanna be able to do that.

And then I started learning.

Ok guys, thanks for hanging out with us for some music lessons.

Yes and let us know in the comments what other instruments and songs you would want to learn.

Goodbye for now.

But not forever.