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EASY Chord Shapes All Over The Neck

Jun 04, 2021
making movable

chord

shapes

now in my opinion there is a big misconception about learning to play guitar that many of you watching will have that unless you master barre

chord

s you can't progress and higher level guitar for many people it's just bar chords and it's just just not the case, even from a rhythm guitar standpoint, you don't need to be able to do that restraint move to be able to play much higher level stuff and really get some sounds and one of the most limiting things about bar chords, uh, if we take the F chord, for example, you know many of you want to master this change between any barre chord or between the f and the C, but the thing is that once we play barre chords we move them around so we can play yes, any chord on the guitar doesn't necessarily sound different the chord itself doesn't sound any more interesting than just the E major chord it's just the E chord one fret after all um , so one of the coolest things we can do to get a great sound, which is actually quite simple, is to play certain open chord

shapes

higher up on the fretboard.
easy chord shapes all over the neck
Now the ones that I showed at the beginning of this video were based on the C major chord, but the most important thing is that we have to add the little finger on the third fret of the thinnest string and once we are doing this and whenever let's be right at the tips, preferably I recommend having this thumb at the top, but when we do that we should be right at the tips of our fingers what we can do is move these two frets up so that this is the C chord, move it one fret, two frets and now we are playing a version of a D chord, it is similar to a D sus2, but the important thing is that we are using a C chord. shape, but it sounds like a D chord and the way you can keep track of this very easily is wherever the root note is, so on the C chord, the third finger is on the root note here on the C note.
easy chord shapes all over the neck

More Interesting Facts About,

easy chord shapes all over the neck...

C on the third fret of the five string when you move this way up two frets on a fifth fret and that's a d note and there's a d chord that sounds a lot cooler. Basically, we can do the same thing by moving the third finger and maintaining the same shape until the tenth fret. The same C shape is still there. All the proportions between all the fingers are the same, but we are playing a few more notes and most of those notes are G chords, but we also have some open strings, but the root note is in the same place. this is a G which is a D major chord and then a C chord which sounds much nicer than just going G d c c d d g g d d c c d d we can use the same trick to play an E minor chord and we just slide up from the D which is on the fifth fret, my apologies.
easy chord shapes all over the neck
I don't have inlays on my guitar, I'm working on it trying to find a new guitar for this, actually, it's a higher fret thing, but we're going to move this up to the 7th fret, so this is the third finger on the 7th fret . where my point is what we have to do here, this is not going to sound very good, basically what can happen when you move the chords higher up the fretboard, so what we have to do is have the first finger move to string four and then this. becomes with the third pinky and index finger only this becomes an E minor chord and you can actually strum all six strings, so we have the four chords that are generally used to play so many guitar songs, especially those on the treble clef, but with much more interesting voicings now this idea of ​​voicing means that we are playing the same chords with almost the same notes but we are playing them in a different position on the

neck

to get a different voice, a different texture or different notes , this is Unlike the inversions that I'm going to cover in a separate lesson, inversions tend to be about maybe sticking to triads and going between different forms of triads like this, which is more of what inversions are in a true intermediate level of what we are doing. here you just move open chord shapes up the

neck

and this is my favorite, so every time you see a chord sequence or play a song that has the chords G, C, E minor, you won't be able to play the version of open chords may be suitable, but you can choose to play these different voices on it to get a higher level sound.
easy chord shapes all over the neck
Another thing we can do that is very

easy

is to simply move the D major shape up. Now with this you can get some really interesting effects. by just sliding it again two frets that is used at the beginning of all my heart by end a beautiful song we can also move it up and in that song it goes to the first fingers being on the fifth fret so this is a D chord with the first finger like second fret, move it to the fourth fret and then to the fifth and then also to the seventh.
Now the root note of those chords, the root note would be here on the open D string, so when you move it up two frets, it's on the second fret on the fifth. fret on the third, always two frets behind your index finger and finally, the last one I'm going to show you is the E major chord, um, I moved higher on the next one, so we start by moving the C chord higher. and then we move the d chord higher and with the e chord what we can do and what we should really do is learn to play the e chord with fingers two, three and four because then we are training our fingers to are in the correct position to touch the bar. chords, but we also just play that E chord where it is, but again with fingers two, three and four instead of fingers one, two and three, we slide them up until our first finger reaches the fifth fret, but in Instead of blocking us, we will stay. on the tip with the index finger do this with the index finger on the fifth fret we are playing an air chord but we are getting that sus2 sound again from the open strings and that is so crucial now that it is higher up the neck with the strings open sounds lovely and then we're going to move this to the fifth fret, first finger on the fifth fret and this is a B chord because that's where our root note is with the B on string six.
I learned how to do this on the blower's daughter by damien rice we can put our minor chord in there, the C sharp uh minor chord that the other common chord would need doing this and then we can trace it all the way back just using the root notes of a major scale like our root notes for chords, if that was something that piqued your interest and you're really into that kind of stuff, there's a lot more in my improvement course, which is the orange book over there and I'll be sure to leave a link in the screen.
Thank you very much for watching and I hope you enjoy moving your chord shapes further up the neck.

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