Steve Stine's easy A chord lick, and viewers asking why D and G

A short lesson built on the fifth and seventh frets drew a comment section full of theory questions, where this channel's Shorts usually get a single reply.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 46,610 views a day, 31 times a normal first day on this channel (1,493).

Easy A Chord Jam Lick to Try

"Easy A Chord Jam Lick to Try" is about as compact as a guitar lesson gets. Steve Stine takes the A chord and shows how a small shape on the fifth and seventh frets turns it into a quick run of notes across the strings, the kind of fill you can drop between strums.

It went far past what his Shorts usually do. It drew close to 47,000 views in its first day, around thirty times a normal start. That came even as the channel as a whole ran below its usual pace. Two days earlier, his short on finding D on the sixth string had a strong start of its own, as we reported here. The lesson posted next to this one, on three-note picking patterns, has barely begun.

The comments are where it gets interesting. Stine's Shorts rarely draw more than one reply in a day, and this one drew a couple of dozen, many of them homework. Several viewers point out that the box is the A minor pentatonic, the blues-rock workhorse, and one asks why D and G belong in a lick over an A chord at all. Others want the same trick for D and G, one checks the tuning, and one simply hears "Jack and Diane" in it.

That suits a teacher who, by his own channel's account, once taught modern guitar at North Dakota State University.

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The numbers

One short lesson, and a first day far beyond anything this channel's Shorts usually see.

the video's first day

usual first day here

1,493

this video

46,610

subscribers

766,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

72,001,077

views per day

10,711

typical day: 15,843

the video

views

57,259

likes

752

comments

24

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

for3v3rfaithful

1,050,000

The-Art-of-Guitar

979,000

EMIL VERGO

958,000

Colby Fulton Drums

876,000

Steve Stine Guitar Lessons

766,000

KALONICA NICX

601,000

As of October 8, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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