Five Little Fingers chords

Notes:

• The time signature is 4/4, meaning each bar contains 4 quarter-note (crotchet) beats.
• The tempo is set at 80 bpm (♩). If you are using a metronome or click track, the beat sounds on every quarter-note.
• The guitarist uses a capo on the 2nd fret and plays in the key of D Major, a key favored for fingerpicking. It allows for easy and quick transitions between D, Dsus4, and Dsus2, enhancing both speed and flow.
• Note how the guitarist uses trills on the D chord (Dsus2 - D - Dsus2) throughout the song. I haven't included them all as the chart starts to get a little messy. You don't have to play them, but make sure you listen and learn how well they can be used in a song, which works very well here.
• Trill: alternating rapidly between 2 adjacent notes - usually a tone or semitone apart.
• In this case the trill occurs on the 1st string of the Dsus2 (E) and D (F#)chords making the trill a tone apart.
• With the trill he plays a Dsus2 / hammers-on to the D chord / releases the hammer-on back to the Dsus2... this is all done in half a beat or eighth-note, so if you count the bar as |1& 2& 3& 4&| (he plays it at the start of the bar), it would be on the 1 of 1& etc.
• This sounds very fast, but listen and try it for yourself. Make sure you play it very slowly till it starts to flow, then pick up the pace until you get to the right tempo.
• The fermata (𝄑) or pause symbol indicates that the note is held for a duration chosen by the performer. In the intro, hold the chord for the full measure. (On some devices, the fermata symbol appears as a small square.)
• The 'h' indicates a hammer-on. In the intro, 'h-D' means you hammer onto the D chord from Dsus2 without strumming the D. At the start of the 4th bar, strum Dsus2 and hammer onto D... if you listen carefully, you will hear this.
• At the end of the song in the last bar, you play the Dsus2 for 2 beats and hammer-on the D chord on the 3rd beat and hold.
• The D/F# chord is simply a D chord leading with an F# bass note.
  
  You can play the F# bass note with your thumb the chart suggests. This is perhaps the easiest way although small hands or a wide guitar neck may require a bit of a stretch!
  
  Another way is to play the D chord with fingers 2, 3, and 4 leaving your first finger to play the F# bass note, although this will need a quick finger re-arrangement from D to D/F# and some of you may find this a little awkward.
  
  Alternatively, you can simply play a D chord adding the F# bass note on the 4th string, 4th fret (see charts). In this case, you need to avoid the 5th string (A), as you are leading with F#... xx4232.
• Beginners: You don't have to play the hammer-ons or trills, and you don't have to play Dsus2 or D/F#. You can play a simple D chord and it still sounds fine.