Our mayor of San Antonio that is very involved in this campaign, Enroll SA, our goal in the city through the city government is to enroll at least 20,000 people from San Antonio in this campaign until the 31st of March that is the deadline. So please help me to give him a very warm welcome to our mayor Julián Castro. Buenos dias. Good morning. Well first I'm Julián Castro. The guy that looks like me over here is my brother Joaquin. You can tell which one of us might go to the rodeo today. I want to begin by thanking, let's give a big thank you to Winivision for sponsoring this event. Thank you Monica and everyone at Winivision. I also want to thank County Judge Nelson Wolf and Congressman Gallego and of course my brother Joaquin and Cecilia Munoz, the director of White House Policy. And thank all of you for being here. This is important today because we're coming upon an important deadline of March 31st to get our families insured for healthcare coverage. You know Joaquin and I grew up mostly with our mother and our grandmother and our grandmother for as long as we could remember had diabetes like a lot of people in our community. And she had to go get treatment for that diabetes throughout her life. And we remember when we were little kids going with her to doctor appointment after doctor appointment. We remember the injections that she would have to take because she had diabetes. And she passed away right before we graduated from college when we were 21 years old. And I remember thinking back then how tough it is on so many people in our community because of the afflictions they have whether it's diabetes or hypertension or whatever it is. But how lucky we were that she actually had Medicare at that time and she could get coverage. We want every single person in our community to have healthcare coverage whether they're two years old or 85 years old. And so we want you to take advantage of the opportunity with the people who are here today to help you and your family get covered. And also please before March 31st call your friends, call your neighbors, call your relatives, your family and let them know how important it is to get healthcare coverage and now they can actually afford it. So thank you for being here. We'll be here until three o'clock. Please get covered. And with that I'd like to introduce the better looking Castro Joaquin. Good morning. How's everybody doing? Good. Well thank you for being here this morning. It's wonderful to be at an event to get out information about the Affordable Care Act. And thank you first of all to all of the volunteers who are here to help today. We appreciate your help this morning as we get out information to the people of San Antonio. As Leon mentioned, in Texas we have the highest percentage of people, both adults and children, who have absolutely no healthcare coverage. So that has been hurtful to the community when people need to see a doctor. Oftentimes they can't. They often go to the emergency room to get coverage and the Affordable Care Act is going to help ease that. It's going to help make sure that people can get healthcare coverage, that they can afford it and so today is an effort to get the word out about it. It's my special honor this morning to introduce Cecilia Muñoz. She is the President's Domestic Policy Advisor. She's the top advisor for domestic policy on issues like healthcare, education, immigration, all the domestic policy that you can imagine. And she wanted to come down today to see what we're doing and we hope that this kind of event where we have so many community organizations working together will become a model not only for Texas but that she can go back to Washington D.C. and into the President's office and let them know how in San Antonio we're working together to make sure people know about the Affordable Care Act. So please help me give a San Antonio welcome to our good friend Cecilia Muñoz. Thank you so much. Buenos dias. Que gusto estar en San Antonio esta mañana. It is so wonderful to be in San Antonio. I thank the mayor and the congressman, the congressman and the judge en un visión for this event. Gracias a todos organizaron este evento porque este es el producto de mucho trabajo para ustedes. There are a lot of people who have worked a long time to make sure that this community can get access to healthcare. President Obama is one of those people but there are a lot of others in this room and all around the country who have fought for a long time. During that fight, the picture they had in their head was you and you coming forward and getting coverage and getting care. Hay muchos que lucharon muchos años para asegurar que esta comunidad podía aprovechar de servicios de salud. Y este es el momento ya llegado en que nos podemos inscribir para cobertura. We can finally, finally apply for coverage and the coverage is affordable. La cobertura es al alcance. Sabemos que la mayoría de las personas que carecen de seguro van a poder obtenerlo por menos de 100 dólares al mes. The majority of un insured people in this country are going to be able to get coverage for less than 100 dollars a month. That's a big deal but it only matters if we sign up, right? Tenemos oportunidad pero tenemos que aparecer para inscribirnos. Es por eso que este evento es tan importante y es también importante que ustedes también hablan con sus vecinos, con sus primos, con sus padres, con sus hijos, con sus abuelos. Para asegurar que ellos también aprovechan la oportunidad de inscribirse antes del 31 de marzo. So we need to make sure that we take advantage of this opportunity to get covered by talking to our neighbors, to our friends, to our coworkers, to our parents, to our children, to our grandparents to make sure they know that we have the opportunity to enroll until March 31st and that the coverage is affordable. So I am so grateful to all of the people who work so hard to bring all of you here today to all the people who are going to be working so hard to help people enroll. And I'm grateful to all of you for making sure that we reach every corner of this community because this is an incredibly important moment for all of us and people have fought for a long time to get to this day and to tomorrow when folks will be able to get regular care. So thank you to the leaders who are here, thank you to the members of the community who are here. Thank you and a vision for helping organize this event. And I just say I bring you greetings from President Obama. This is what he fought for, was for you. And I'm just so grateful to be able to be part of this today. Muchísimas gracias a todos. Muchísimas gracias a la señora Silia Muñoz por estar aquí. Ella es la directora del Consejo de Políticas Nacionales de la Casa Blanca. Y que vamos a darle un fuerte aplauso que ella se tomó el tiempo de estar aquí con un edición y con todos ustedes para hablar de la importancia, de la importancia que es tener un seguro médico. Como dijo el alcalde, muchas veces nosotros como latinos podemos tener enfermedades crónicas como en la diabetes. Sabemos que los tratamientos son sumamente caros y 12% de nuestra población aquí en San Antonio no tiene cobertura médica. Ahorita es la oportunidad y también porque las personas que no tengan seguro médico van a tener es algo obligatorio que el gobierno del presidente Obama está pidiendo a toda la población. Y entre más personas estén aseguradas va a ser menor el costo. Y como dicen, hay asistencia financiera, hay un crédito tributario que es lo que incluye en esta reforma de salud. También es muy importante que vamos a tener aquí a las personas de Vita que les van a explicar a cada uno cómo pueden ustedes hacer su reporte de ingresos personales el income tax return porque el año que entra va a estar incluido el nuestro reembolso de ingresos personales de los impuestos el programa de ACA o Obamacare. Entonces ahí van a estar representantes también para que ustedes tomen toda la información y por eso están aquí nuestros representantes oficiales del gobierno para explicarnos y que ustedes obtengan toda la información necesaria para que ustedes deciden qué tipo de seguro les conviene a cada uno de ustedes. Además vamos a tener personas del programa CHIP que es el Seguro Médico para los Niños. Y ahora es un honor para mí presentar a una persona muy querida por la comunidad de Texas nuestro representante Pete Gallego. Es una historia que particularmente todos nosotros entendemos de salud. Así es que muy bien he dicho que sin salud voy a tener que cuidar. Así es que hoy empezamos y hoy sabemos que vemos salud y por eso tratamos de mejorar la dificultad. Aquí el Estado de los Obos ha hecho mucho para la comunidad de San Antonio. Se ha defendido a muchos de las mares que han estado de asesinar como miembro de la Constitución de la Constitución de la Constitución como ahora puede por favor dejar. Y me da un susto de la Constitución como ahora para que la comunidad de San Antonio para los pueblos de la ciudad de los pueblos. Monica Naval y Melina Sanchez and our great friends at Univision. Gracias por su apoyo. Gracias. Julian Castro and Congressman Joaquín Castro and Congressman Pete Gallego thank you for standing up for the citizens of San Antonio that desperately need health care. Thank you for your great great leadership. Bear County is doing everything we can do to help Aurora Sanchez is here this morning who leads our effort. George Hernandez who's president of the Bear County Hospital District is coordinating a lot of the efforts today and we're reaching thousands of people. Just yesterday in our digital library on the south side of San Antonio just a small library 4,000 square feet. We had record attendance yesterday 615 people came in to our library just yesterday. Many of them wanted to sign up and have the opportunity to have health insurance. This is like a football game. Time runs out March 31st. We started a little slow in the first quarter. Things didn't go as good as we thought they should go. But now we're entering that fourth quarter and we're running up the points and we're going to win this great game and we're going to give everybody an opportunity to have health insurance. Thank you.


So I want you all to just take a moment and really reflect on what is happening around us currently. On the spectrum between democracy and authoritarianism, we are rapidly shifting towards authoritarianism. We are effectively becoming an authoritarian police state before our very eyes. We're moving away from proto-fascism and devolving into an outright fascistic regime. And the police are upholding this fascism. They are complicit now. And I don't want to sound hyperbolic because I don't want to give you the impression that this is some sort of new phenomenon. We have been gradually moving closer and closer towards authoritarianism ever since 9-11 when we saw things like the Patriot Act. And never ending war and later and later stages of capitalism. But now, with everything that's transpired over the last couple of months, we are really seeing the death of the American Empire. And it is really overwhelming. And part of the reason why we're witnessing this acceleration of our slide into authoritarianism is because Donald Trump is hungry for power and he is trying to consolidate the power of the executive. Now it's not like Donald Trump is the only president to expand the power of the executive branch, but he's making really large leaps to make sure that the president can essentially do what he wants. So when I tell you that we are devolving into an authoritarian regime, I'm not trying to make it seem as if we're going to turn into North Korea by next Tuesday. But what I do want to emphasize here is that our constitutional rights, our civil liberties, are being attacked by the United States government openly. And there's various examples that point to that. So let's just look at what Donald Trump has done over the course of the last week. Put aside, you know, the complete failed response to COVID-19, but look at what he's done just last week. So first, he says that the United States government will now designate ANTIFA as a terrorist organization. And if you don't know why that's troubling, well, as journalist Ben Norton points out, ANTIFA is not an actual organization. It's a decentralized group. There are no quote-unquote ANTIFA leaders. So now the US government will have the quote-unquote right to imprison anyone for quote-unquote terrorism if it just claims they're part of ANTIFA. Designating ANTIFA as a terrorist organization would be like designating environmentalists or socialists or anti-racists as terrorists. ANTIFA just means anti-fascist. ANTIFA isn't an organization, party, or gang. You can't be an official member, but the US police state knows that. So by designating ANTIFA as a terrorist organization, this is giving the US government permission, or more specifically a justification, to indefinitely detain United States citizens. You can just say they're doing terrorist activity if they are anti-fascist at all and lock them up. So this gives the US government a blank check effectively to lock up anyone. Because aren't most Americans technically anti-fascist? I mean, I'd hope so, right? Because that's all that ANTIFA is. But on top of that, he wants to stifle criticism of the United States government. Because he called on the Supreme Court to reverse their landmark Texas v. Johnson decision where the court held that flag burning unsurprisingly is in fact a protected form of free speech. So he doesn't want you to criticize the US government. And on top of that, he took to Twitter saying when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Which is exactly what the chief of police in Miami told civil rights activists back in 1967. It's a phrase with explicitly racist origins. And on top of that, if you haven't seen any footage from Washington DC currently, it looks like an authoritarian police state with military vehicles. Clearing the path for Donald Trump so he could take a quick photo op. And right before he made that embarrassing photo op, he made a speech where he threatened to use the United States military to quell the protests. Let me just take a step back here and reflect on the gravity of that. Donald Trump is trying to say that if these protests don't stop, if governments don't get these protests under control, he will unilaterally send in the United States military and put them directly at odds with United States citizens. This is functionally a declaration of war against United States citizens. I know that the US government is constantly at war, droning civilians in the Middle East and North Africa. But now it wants to go to war with its own people. And it's looking a lot like the wars that we do abroad when you consider the fact that even predator drones are now policing Minneapolis. So here is a quick look at Donald Trump's speech, where he made this very dystopian declaration that he's going to possibly turn the military against its own people. These are not acts of peaceful protests. These are acts of domestic terror. The destruction of innocent life and the spilling of innocent blood is an offense to humanity and a crime against God. America needs creation, not destruction. Cooperation, not contempt. Security, not anarchy. Healing, not hatred. Justice, not chaos. This is our mission and we will succeed. 100% we will succeed. Our country always wins. That is why I am taking immediate presidential action to stop the violence and restore security and safety in America. I am mobilizing all available federal resources, civilian and military, to stop the rioting and looting, to end the destruction and arson, and to protect the rights of law-abiding Americans, including your Second Amendment rights. Therefore, the following measures are going into effect immediately. First, we are ending the riots and lawlessness that has spread throughout our country. We will end it now. Today I have strongly recommended to every governor to deploy the National Guard in sufficient numbers that we dominate the streets. Mayors and governors must establish an overwhelming law enforcement presence until the violence has been quelled. If a city or state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them. I am also taking swift and decisive action to protect our great capital, Washington, D.C. What happened in this city last night was a total disgrace. As we speak, I am dispatching thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers, military personnel and law enforcement officers to stop the rioting, looting, vandalism, assaults, and the wanton destruction of property. So for a moment let's just put aside the fact that he is threatening to use the United States military against its own citizens, but let's dissect some of the language that he is using here because he was wording what he was saying very carefully contrary to most of his speeches. So first, he is recommending that governors deploy National Guard in an attempt to dominate the streets. He was very careful in choosing the word dominate, meaning that the people do not have the right to take to the streets. They will be under the full control of National Guard if governors actually follow through with what Donald Trump wants. On top of that, he says, quote, if a city or state refuses to take the actions necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them. Quickly solve the problem for them. Do you understand that use of the word quickly there and what it is insinuating? He's going to crush these protests violently. You can't solve this problem quickly if you don't do that. If you try to solve this problem peacefully, it's going to take time. It's going to take organization. It's going to take dialogue and conversation, but he's going to quickly solve the problem for them. And he also emphasized that the militarized presence in DC will be heavily armed. This is openly authoritarian. Now the question is, legally speaking, is he able to subvert the will of governors and actually deploy the U.S. military if they don't want the military there? As CNN's Zachary B. Wolfe explains, President Donald Trump threatened Monday night to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 law and take the unusual step of deploying active duty U.S. soldiers to police U.S. streets. While Trump claims the move would break up anti-fascists or antifa who he says are organizing violent riots that have led to looting, it would also effectively squelch peaceful protests for racial justice after the death last week of a black man, George Floyd, after a police officer used lethal force during a stop. That would be a remarkable turn on the law which was most notably used in the 1950s to enforce desegregation and later in the 1960s to address riots in Detroit. According to the Congressional Research Service, it hasn't been invoked since 1992 during the riots in Los Angeles that followed the acquittal of four white police officers in the beating of Rodney King. Now Attorney General William Barr was actually Attorney General back then too under former President George H.W. Bush, but there may be curbs on what Trump can do. One section of the law suggests that states must first request help, but other portions of the Insurrection Act do not require a governor or state legislatures OK, such as when the president determines the situation in the state, makes it impossible to enforce U.S. laws or when citizens' rights are abridged. Historically and practically, such request is not necessarily a prerequisite to the president using regular federal troops for domestic law enforcement, said Stephen Vladek, a University of Texas law professor and CNN contributor. There are examples of presidents using troops over the objections of governors, as Dwight Eisenhower and later John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson during the Civil Rights Era. In particular, Eisenhower invoked the Insurrection Act when he federalized the Arkansas National Guard and then sent the 101st Airborne Division into Little Rock to integrate the schools. There's a lot to digest here, but let's take a little bit of time to parse out the details, as the article stated the last time that this was invoked was during the 1992 riots. Except the difference there was that the governor had requested the president send in the U.S. military. So this isn't necessarily like the previous state federal government disputes. This is U.S. citizen president dispute. This is the president of the United States sending in the military against the people. So you can try to frame this as, you know, governors don't want it. So this is technically, you know, a federal versus state issue. But this isn't, you know, a governor who is choosing to not integrate public schools after Brown versus Board of Education. This is the president who is saying, I am going to unilaterally send the United States military as commander in chief to these states, even if governors don't want that to happen because we have to crush these protests. I think this is really different. And even though legally they're going to try to make the case that this is like when Lyndon B. Johnson or John F. Kennedy did it. It's actually not. And really it doesn't matter because just because something is legal doesn't necessarily mean that it's moral or right. So let's just call this what this is. The United States government trying to crack down on U.S. citizens by deploying the military. It's what we saw during the Arab Spring in Egypt. We're seeing that here. This is astonishing. And the question is, is this basically martial law? What is this? Well, the definition of martial law is as follows. It's military government involving the suspension of ordinary law. So we're not technically to that point, but as Will Wilkinson puts it, why all the legalistic parsing of the ins and outs of the insurrection act on cable news as if there's some question here. The story is that the president is dipping his toe into declaring a martial law because abused citizens want justice. That crosses every line he's got to go. So what Wilkinson is pointing to here is how pundits on cable media is trying to legally justify his actions, possibly fighting out for him and, you know, basically nuanced role about whether or not this is permissible. But regardless if you can try to find some sort of legal exploit for it, this is an authoritarian crackdown. And it's not just any sort of authoritarian crackdown. We're not talking about the Patriot Act spying on citizens illegally without a warrant. We're talking about the United States government threatening to turn the U.S. military on the people it's supposed to protect. So this is a drastic escalation. And I should note that the response from Democrats has effectively been to write Donald Trump strongly worded letters via Twitter. So Trump is consolidating his power, cracking down on protests, possibly violently with the military. It's already a violent crackdown for sure. But he is going to possibly deploy the military and he has no opposition. There's no checks and balances. And even if let's say, you know, this is technically illegal what he's doing, which I think it is. It doesn't matter because he has the courts on his side. He's stacked the courts at every level. Federal courts are on his side. So do you understand why this is devolution into authoritarianism? The president's power is not supposed to be absolute. But after each president has expanded the power of the executive, we're finally reaching the logical conclusion of that. Now we are officially in police state territory where the president is not shy about threatening to use the military to target and attack its own citizens. Yeah, I don't know what else to say about that. This is terrifying.


Hope you're right. The best player on the planet and someone that is truly master in his craft said that his entire secret is that he never got bored with the basics. And as obvious as that may be to you all right now, that was a life-changing moment for me. See, it was in that moment that I finally realized that just because something is basic doesn't mean that it's easy. Those are not synonyms and yet people mistakenly use those words as if they're interchangeable. Just because something is basic, it doesn't mean that it's easy. If it was easy, everyone else would be doing it. And as you all know, we live in a world that tells us it's okay to skip steps. Tells us we should always be looking for a shortcut or a hack. Tells us we should cause them to be chasing what's new and what's shiny and what's flashy and what's sexy. But I'm here to tell you when you do those things, you are making a huge mistake. And that's because the basics work. They always have and they always will.


This is the X2 Bluetooth by GameSir, it's the successor to the previous wireless controller Which was USB compatible mainly for Android devices. This is going to be great for my iPhone 12 Pro So that's what I'm going to use. Let's go ahead and open this up You get a very nice hard carry case Which is always great for portability So there you have the controller and an accessories box. So just before I look into that Let's see what accessories we have in play. You have a USB-C charging cable Now this is a 500 milliamp hour battery, which gives you so many hours of continuous gaming You also have some silicone rubber grips for the joysticks. It's a really cool shiny metallic blue and red game sir logo sticker a Social media sharing card and the user manual. I'm taking a closer look at the controller itself It's this nice base gray color. You can see there is some soft rubber grips at the back when you're holding it It's a very nice ergonomic fit and this actually stretches to a little over 17 centimeters So it's perfect to fit even the largest of phones now like I mentioned I will fit my iPhone 12 Pro in there before I go on to do that Let me just show you the buttons. So at the bottom here, you have yourself the USB-C charging port This is the home button, which you'll actually use to power on the device Of course, these are very similar to Xbox controller button. So you've got two joysticks left of night You have the G and the S button. You've got the directional arrow buttons there AXYB on the right and then you have this button here on the left This is actually a screenshot button So if you're playing a game and it looks really good for whatever you're doing You can press that it will take a screenshot on your phone And then you can share that to all of your social media at the top You have your R1 R2 there and L1 L2 so pretty straightforward And I really like this fact that the joysticks are on opposite ends So this really tailors towards anyone's preference whether they have the joysticks a little bit higher up or a little bit lower down It caters for both of them. So the one thing I really like about it There is no connector for your phone So there is Bluetooth so where you have an Android phone or an iPhone this should work absolutely fine So when you turn this on for the first time to pair it to your phone All you have to do is hold down the home button there and the B button on the right hand side So let me go ahead and do that You'll see there's some LED indicators There's a green light to show that it's on and there's a purple light that's flashing if it's slow flashing It's now going into Bluetooth mode and as you can see a Bluetooth pairing request has popped up This basically is telling me to connect to the Xbox wireless controller. So you click on pair As you can see it's now connected and I can now start playing some games with it There is a compatibility list of some games So what I recommend is only use this for games that are MFI compatible MFI being made for iPhone And there's a whole list of them so plenty of options I'll leave a link in the description of where you can find a full list of games But I will be testing it with two very popular games. Let me go ahead and mount my phone onto here Like so very easy to do so and the first game I'm going to load up is asphalt 9 I'm a huge fan of racing games and this would be really great with that Now that it is connected as an Xbox controller It should automatically be detected by the game to say that there's a controller Connected so you can now you start using the joystick and the buttons to control the racing One other thing there's a little reserved gap just beneath the phone there and the actual gamepad This is really good because it allows for a bit of air cooling. So your phone doesn't heat up too much As you can see straight away. I'm using the button. I didn't really need to do anything. You can also go into settings Go into game settings and then go to controls Here you can see gamepad has now been selected and you can also switch to the gamepad being manual drive instead of a Touch drive so for this purpose. I'll just leave it as touch drive and let's start the race I'll now use the buttons so I can use my nitrous with the R2 button at the back And this gives you some instructions as well There you go. Very easy to set up and the gameplay is super smooth It's so much easier to play with the gamepad like this I'm so impressed that I really didn't need to do anything else No fiddling about and it's just automatically to detect the controller and assigns all of the buttons Accordingly to the actual gameplay now one other game I'm just going to showcase to you is call of duty So in here you can just double check to see the control is connected if you go into settings Then you go into controller You'll see there's the different types of controls for each of the buttons if you go into settings You'll be able to see that the controller is connected and also that these game has the controller support connected as well So now that's up and running. Let's go ahead and start a multiplayer So there you go. It's super impressive. The gameplay was so smooth There was no lag whatsoever and the response time between the buttons and the actual gameplay was pretty much instant Now if you did want to use this gamepad to control a game that isn't supported by it You can still do that by using g-touch in order to do that You have to make sure that the gamepad is turned off So let me go ahead hold down the home button and it turns off as you can see the light indicator The next time you turn it on by the way It will automatically be connected so you wouldn't have to connect it to the Xbox controller on your Bluetooth settings every time But if you wanted to use g-touch all you have to do this time is hold the home button there at the bottom and Press the G button, which is just here on the top left So let me go ahead and do that now the difference here The light that's flashing is actually blue instead of purple The purple one is to connect for the Xbox controller the blue one is for g-touch Now you'd have to set up a separate Bluetooth for this and as you can see this comes up with the option Game sir dash x2. This is the one you connect to You pair it and The light will be solid blue then you go into the games app. So you need to download this and Then you connect it and then as you can see it's connected x2 gf8 There's now there at the top gives you an indication of the battery percentage as well Then you go into g-touch now There might be some compatibility issues for iPhones that have the iOS 13.4 or higher So make sure you double check that but here let's say for example You can search for a game and do any manual mapping to the buttons on the controller So let's say for example life after you just go into that and then you can start doing a brand new config To assign the buttons and map it towards that. So there's plenty of options for everyone Now one other thing I wanted to test is what happens if I actually use my iPhone 12 pro to stream it wirelessly via airplay to my TV and play on a larger screen and see how it performs So let's see if I can do that, right? So I've just connected it back onto the Xbox controller and it's now connected to the gamepad and I've got asphalt 9 and now I'm wirelessly streaming via airplay to my TV in landscape mode and It's working great. It's pretty responsive as you can see I'm using the buttons to control the TV and Now I'm going to fire up a race and see how it performs The main thing I'm looking out for to see is if there's any lag or it's still as smooth as possible And this is going to be great Especially if you've got a very large TV and you just want some really great gaming on it directly from your phone Now I'm super impressed with this using bluetooth to connect to my phone And then using the phone to use airplay to connect to my TV. That's a double connection I would have expected a lot more lag or any buffering. There's no skipped frames in this and it's super solid I'm so impressed with the way this works and I'm going to be using this to use on my TV more often than not That is the benefit of the x2 bluetooth. So that's it guys check out game Sir they provide a lot of top-class gaming peripherals from gamepads mice keyboards and a whole load of other accessories Which as a gamer you'd really like this comes in at just under $60 So I feel like this is a bargain for what it can do make sure you check them out The link is in the description if you guys want to know anything about this game controller drop a comment down below If you like this review and really cool tech reviews I have new videos out every week make sure to subscribe so you don't miss those ones and I will catch you guys next time Take care


Guitar and Excel open chords C major scale C major chord worksheet get ready because it's time for our guitar skills to Excel Here we are in Excel if you don't have access to this workbook That's okay because we basically built this from a blank worksheet, but we started in a prior presentation So if you want to build this from a blank worksheet, you may want to begin back there However, you don't necessarily need the workbook if looking at this from a music theory perspective because we will simply be using it as a tool to map out the fretboard and related Scale and chords if you do have access to the workbook There's two tabs down below example and the og tab the og tab Representing the worksheet we put together in the prior section that now being our starting point So we're going to copy over from the og tab So we don't mess up our og worksheet and then we will change it to Fit our current needs, which is represented in the example tab So let's go to the example tab to get an idea of what we will do from this og worksheet To get into this example tab and why so on the example tab We're going to take our fretboard and we're going to try to trim it down to just where our focal point is in this case We're looking at the open positions and this is going to be a common technique that is very very helpful when trying to learn the fretboard When looking at the fretboard you might say hey, there's not too much going on here. I can take that I can see the whole fretboard pretty clearly in my field of sight. It's not that big But when you try to analyze what's actually going on within it, it gets very overwhelming very quickly So the technique typically that needs to be used here is breaking the fretboard down into smaller components and looking at Specific areas of it and then building your understanding of it from there So what we're going to do is we can trim it down to just the open positions of the fretboard and then we're going to be Making it so we can see the worksheet over here which represents the major scale and C major and we're going to be focusing in on the one cord Which is going to be the C major chord and then we will map that out on our worksheet And we'll use these little tools here to be able to see How we can finger finger our positions and what's the different ways that we are Looking at this and then we'll kind of analyze what this looks like And then so we'll do that up top here so we can just see the cords We'll also have another worksheet down here so that we can see the cords on top of the major scale So we can see how this fits in the major scale We'll do the same thing with the pentatonic scale So we can see how the cord fits in the pentatonic scale and then we'll do another one fitting the pentatonic Major and the cords which have a lot of colors going on so that we can kind of go through each of these things and analyze Them how they fit together. Okay, so let's go to the og tab First thing I'm going to do is take my og tab and I'm going to copy it over so I don't mess up the og So I'm going to I'm going to hold down control Left click on this tab and then drag to the right and that'll just copy the tab over So now we've got the second og tab. I'm going to double click on it and and say this is going to be let's say open cord C and I'll make it white. This is gonna. I'm going to make the color white because the og is dressed in the og orange And this will be the one we're working in which is the white tab Okay, so then what we did last time is we we mapped out our fretboard in terms of numbers We mapped out our fretboard in terms of numbers and letters Which I think is a useful tool to look at the intervals. We numbered our scales So we built this by by having the musical alphabet a a sharp or b flat I'm representing that with a lowercase a and a b B C C sharp D and so on and then we numbered them these being absolute numbers here And that's going to help us with our intervals. So now that we have that What I'd like to do is have my major I want to focus in on the major scale now the way we constructed our worksheet is we're looking at C major here with the key on C So here's our C major and then and then underneath it. We've got the minor And and the Dorian related to C and so on but and then on to the right of it We've got all the modes related to C what I really want to do is focus in on Multiple layers of C because I want to I want to have a fretboard that I can map out in multiple different ways So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna first remove everything on this fretboard I got a bunch of stuff in here. You may not have stuff in the fretboard, but I'm gonna remove the conditional formatting by going to the home tab Styles conditional formatting and clear them and Then I'm just gonna copy down The these the major the major one here so that I can focus so that I have it Repeating over and over again because that's where my focus will be so I'm gonna put my cursor on the one and scroll down and copy it down to to The 19 so as far as I want to go. Let's make it a little smaller so I could see exactly how far down I want to go Let's go from one down to Down to here 25 so I pick up everything Let's copy that and I'm gonna paste it right here Control V. So now I'm just pasting it on top. So I'm overriding what we did before so I can just repeat I'm just gonna paste it all the way down paste control V and Then right here. I'm gonna paste control V and Then here I'm gonna paste control V. We may not need all of these paste control V But I'll just have this one thing Repeated multiple times so I can look at multiple fretboards. That should be enough So then I'm gonna assume that we don't want to look at just the numbers only so I'm gonna hide all of the numbers Only ones at this time So I'll put my cursor up here and we'll go down to To here and right click and hide So I can hide all of that and then if I go to the right I really want to go down to this point. So to see that I'm gonna also hide Everything from I don't need to see all of this stuff. I just want to see The the this worksheet next to my fretboard and the fretboard I really only need to go out To like the third the third position here and just look at those three or maybe four would be Good, but let's just keep it. Let's just keep it at Let's keep it at four. Let's go to four. So I'm gonna then Now I'll go to three. Let's go to three. So I'm gonna put my cursor on the e and I'm gonna drag on over to go next to This one and then right-click and hide all of that So now I've got this little bit of the fretboard that I'm that I'm gonna be looking at and focusing in on So then I'm gonna hide all of the numbers down here So I'm gonna go from I really can go from right here to get everything as close and tight as possible So I'm gonna hide from 24 down to 38 right-click and hide and so now I've got the two fretboards on top of each other and then I can hide from here down To here right-click and hide. I'm not deleting.  What is that right-click and hide That and then from here To here Right-click and hide that Okay, and then I've got one more. So I probably don't need all of these But I'll do this one right-click and hide that and So and I'm not worried about messing it up because I still have my og down here So I can always go back there and Fix things if I need to so now I'm gonna scroll in because I really just need this part right here The the wheel might be useful, but that's not where our focus is gonna be so I'm gonna hold down control and scroll in You know as far as we can So that it kind of fits on a screen so now we can we can zoom way in and focus on this little bit now I don't really need this right now. So I'm gonna make this small This will help me to kind of focus in on a certain area So now what I'd like to do is I'm gonna map this first one out So so what I have on the right here is the C major scale So you've got these are relative positions what I call relative position one two three four five six and seven They're relative because they're not absolute numbers whereas this number nine when we numbered the cells that's Note number nine which this this is a relative position one Relative to the C scale relative position one is a C relative to the C scale So then we then we have our notes These are the notes in the scale one through seven and then we can map out our chords And we're looking really just at These three because we're mapping out just the major The major chords. So let's map that out over here a couple different ways I'm gonna do this with my conditional formatting So I'm gonna select all of this stuff and we'll use our conditional formatting to map out the notes in the key of C Which is going to be the C E and the G So I'll do that by going to the to the home tab Styles conditional formatting and I'm gonna say if it's equal to and I like to make different colors because I want to really focus in on Which is which meaning what's the one note? What's the two? What's the you know the the second note in the cord and third note of the cord? What's the one three five? So I'm gonna say this is gonna be equal to the C I like to make the root green So that's where we want to be you want to always be kind of hovering around that one That's gonna be the the the major central central point and then I'm gonna say let's do it again and This is gonna be the E I'll make it red and some in the red almost stands out more than the green But that's the other major format that they have here and then we're gonna say let's do it again and then the Last one is a G and that G. I'm gonna make it the yellow So there we have it and so now when I start to do my finger in I can see my fretboard this is the open strings and And so this is where I start putting my fingers on it and you can see here's your C position This is where your fingers go. I can use this down here to start to map out Where I put my fingers. I'm gonna copy this and paste another one here I put a finger there and I put a finger down here and Then I would this would be an open Position no finger there and no finger there and notice you have other options here You could finger this one you could mute this string all together This is the low E string by the way the string that's on the top of the guitar when you're holding it closest to the ceiling and And so so that's how we'll start to map that out And so we'll use this next time to really kind of analyze What is happening here in the open position the open position is deceptively simple because people just learn This shape as a C shape, but it's actually a little confusing because you because you only need three notes to create a C And you could play all of the six notes here in this open position That would be fine because you have repetitive notes the more you're able to see what's happening here the more you're gonna be able to Both learn the open notes, but also be able to move these things up the fretboard and be able to see these relationships And and so it's a good thing to do both of those things because it's fun to play the open Chords and just strum away at it But it's also useful to take some time sometimes to really analyze it because that allows you to kind of move it around more So then next so I'm also gonna format this let's format paint this one I'm gonna go to the home tab Format painter and just paint that formatting here so I can see format painter I'll paint it here and then format paint this one here So that's where our focus on I'll copy one more of these and then just and then I'll put this on where I'm really looking Which note I'm kind of looking at in this scale when I start when we start to analyze this Okay, and then I'm gonna do it again down here, but this time I want to note The minor the minor scale and see how the chords fit into the minor scale So first I'm gonna indicate the minor the minor notes are the one The two the three the five and the six I'm gonna indicate I mean these aren't the minor notes. These are the pentatonic notes These are the pentatonic excuse me pentatonic scale. We're looking at and these These the major chord will fit all of these chords will fit into The pentatonic scale generally so that's gonna be the idea. So let's map out the pentatonic scale So home tab I'm gonna go to the font group drop down I'm gonna make these green to indicate that's these are the notes in the pentatonic notice there's five notes in it instead of the seven and It's useful to map out the pentatonic because it's usually a safer scale to use And it and when you're switching from modes to modes the pentatonic is often the the go-to Safe safer place to go So that and then but then we'll also add these other two notes and do the major scale as well Which is often also really useful to memorize and understand Because then you can count out the actual notes in the scale a lot more easily It's hard to count off the notes in the scale when you're skipping, you know Some of the notes when we're used to the major see okay, so let's map this one out So I'll do the same thing this time I'm gonna make all of All of the notes that are in this scale a different color. Let's make them Let's make them like a green Hopefully it doesn't stand out too much with our with our seat with a green But anyway, let's go to the home tab Format painter and I'm gonna say if it equals and I'm just gonna pick all of the ones that are green And then I'll add my notes on top of it. So I'll show you how that works. I'll pick this one here I'm gonna make it an additional formatting custom formatting and then I'm gonna go to the fill and We can make it some kind of green. Maybe we do like that green. Maybe let's see what that looks like So there that is that's gonna clash a little bit when we do that other formatting, but we'll keep it there for now So I'm gonna say okay, and then I'm gonna do this again. I'm gonna go to the format Equals and I'm going down to all the notes in the scale now So there's the second note that's in it's in the pentatonic and major scale Customizing it. I'm gonna make it green and then we're gonna say, okay. I made it the wrong green Let's undo that undo Redo, okay, let's do it again dropping it down and this is gonna be this one and Then I wanted to customize it and make it this green Okay, there it is. Okay, so there's that one and then I'm gonna say next one It's gonna be this E Dropping it down Making it that green Okay, and then I'm going to this one the G skipping the the F Because I'm looking pentatonic this time equals to We're looking at the G Drop down and I want to make that this green. Okay, and okay, and then dropping it down again and Equal to and let's go to this one Make it green custom green make it that green again and Okay, okay, and then on top of that I'm gonna put my C the C with the same color coding we had up top which hopefully doesn't clash too much with our green We'll see what it will see here. So I should have test this out a bit more But we're gonna say this is gonna be equal to and now I'm gonna pick up this C Notice I already had a C in here, but now I'm gonna put this formatting kind of on top of it Hold on a second cancel. I have to select the select what I'm looking at and then do it So now I'm picking up this C. I want to make it the green one. So now it's a different green. So hopefully hopefully that's not too Like looks too similar because I use two greens there But we'll go with it and then this one we're gonna insert and say this is gonna be equal to it's hard to get all the colors There's so many That one and then I'm gonna say okay, and then we're gonna say this is gonna be equal to This one and that's gonna be the yellow So we'll say yellow and Okay, and then I'll format paint this stuff here again format paint this here And then I'll format paint this here and then I'll format paint this here So now you can see the pentatonic Scale we'll talk about the pentatonic scale later It's a little bit difficult to see the pentatonic scale sometimes in the open position because you lose some of the some of the paint the full pentatonic shapes format in the open positions And you have and you can do a lot different fingering, you know with the open positions But obviously the open position is also There's a reason it's more complicated because you have more things you could do because you have those open strings Available to you. We'll talk about more about the pentatonic scale later But just note that once we start messing around just with the C We can then say it well I can I can kind of noodle around as they say with any of these notes in the pentatonic scale and kind of always go Back to home playing some kind of C. So we'll practice kind of noodling around with that And here and try it in a future presentation So then let's do this time will do the same thing except we'll use the whole major Scale so this time I'm going to put everything in the major scale So I'm going to select this whole thing and I'm this time I'm going to say the major scale is going to be blue So I'm going to say this is going to be equal to the C and I'm going to say this is going to be a custom formatting blue. I'm just going to make all of them blue So I'm going to say this next one is going to be this one and I'm going to make it custom formatting blue And then I'm going to say okay next one is going to be equal to this one custom formatting blue and Then we'll say next one. Hold on a sec next one equals the F It's going to be custom formatting and blue and then okay next one equals the G custom formatting and blue and then okay and then equals to a custom formatting blue and Then okay and one more time equals Hold on equals The B custom formatting and blue Okay, so now this is the major scale and This end this position and so now I'll put I'll put the C on top of it Which it fits in the major scale. So I'm going to say this is going to be equal to equals to The C and I'll make it green And then I'm going to say this equals to the E and I'll make it red Hold on a second. It was red by default red and Then we'll say this is going to be the Equal to the G and we'll make it the yellow Okay, and then I'll custom format this format paint it to here format paint this to here So now same thing except now we've added a couple notes from the pentatonic So now we can see the the colored notes are still our C position our our C position here Right, we'll be fingering this this and this open positions But when you're noodling around you can play the C and then you can start to Play some of these other notes and it should all sound good because you're playing in the key Of C that would be like playing all the white notes on the piano It should sound good because you're in the same key So and notice this is getting a little bit messy because you might think about how am I going to do that because now There's a lot going on even in this little section. So that's what we'll start to map out. We'll start to say, okay Well, what if if if I was to try to noodle around on this then Maybe I would let's copy this down here Maybe I would let's copy this down here Maybe I would Then focus in on a certain area, right? I would I would play the C chord and then maybe focus in like the open strings are always good because you can always do the Open strings That's what's great about playing like the key of C on a guitar Because the open strings can wring out if you're pretty safe that they're not going to clash too much with anything And then I can start playing just these in between and then go back to the C I don't really know what I'm doing up here at first. I just know I'm playing some stuff That's in The scale, you know, and then I could start to then I can start to understand We're what I'm doing in relation to the C and you can actually get some pretty fun Stuff if you mix if you mix together just playing the C in multiple formats in this one position and rhythm playing different rhythmically Then you have like an infinite number of things you can do just with like playing in the key of C Right, you could do things, you know infinitely any case. Let's do it one more time this time I want to map out the The major and the minor so I'm gonna list the minor I mean the the major scale and the pentatonic So I'm gonna list out the pentatonic notes again by going home tab and Let's make these green And so this time I'm gonna list out the pentatonics So let's do the same and then I'll add the two notes that are the major in blue And then we'll add the the other notes on top of that for the for the cord we're playing So this time I'm gonna say let's start with the green ones. This is gonna be equal to this one. Let's make that green I'll make it this green. That's what we did before Okay, and then we're gonna say next I'm gonna say equal to this one and it's gonna be green Custom green, okay Okay, and then equal to this one and it's gonna be custom green Okay, okay, and then equal to This one and it's gonna be custom green Okay, okay, and then equal to This one and it's gonna be custom green Custom green and then the other two I'm gonna make that blue So then I'm gonna say the other two that make up The major is gonna be this one from from the pentatonic to the major It's gonna be that blue note. It's not a blue scale I just the blue it's it's not the blue note in the blue scale Don't get that mixed up and then I'm gonna say this is gonna be equal. It's just a major scale and Then we're gonna say this is gonna be the blue note So now we've got now we've got the pentatonic in green the and the added two notes Right in blue and now let's put our cord on top of that So now I'm gonna say our cord it's gonna be equal to The C it's gonna be the green one which clashes a little bit with the other one but we're gonna deal with it and then we've got the E and it's going to be let's make that one the red one and then we've got equal to the the G The G and it's gonna be The yellow Okay, so then I'll format these I'm gonna say this is gonna be format paint that format paint that and Format paint that so now and this one looks like if we didn't do this one by one And I just gave you this to look at it would be quite overwhelming But now that we've built these other three it might look a little less overwhelming So even though we're on this one little piece So if I just to recap it we're looking at this one little piece of the fretboard We started out just mapping out the three notes that create the C The C major then we said let's map that on top of the pentatonic scale So now we have the three notes that still represent the C major But have the added notes in the pentatonic scale so that we can noodle around we can finger pick or whatever We want to do for you know You don't need whatever style you're using and then always go back to the C notes as your home base And then we said let's add the blue that the major notes on top of that So this is all of the major notes which are seven notes So and then we put the the C on top of the seven notes You can do the same thing you can noodle around and then go back to that C Chord and then we we mapped out the green notes in the pentatonic The blue notes being the added two notes and then these three notes mapped on top of them Which are going to fit over all the green notes right because because Because the this chord will fit in the pentatonic scale Which is larger than the chord and both the chord and the pentatonic scale will fit in the major Scale we'll talk more about that in the future But they'll kind of blend together so we'll kind of point them out now and then we'll talk about The pentatonic and major scales and more detail later so what we'll do from this next time is that we'll we'll pull out the actual guitar and Start to start to finger this position see the multiple ways we can play it and then also look at the The relative positions in terms of the intervals