5 Movable Chord Shapes to Play EVERYTHING on Fretboard!

Hi, my name is Neil Chan and today I'm going to share with you what are the five

chord

shapes

that you know to unlock the entire guitar

fretboard

and I've been sharing a little bit about how music is like cooking, you know? you have all these ingredients that you use, that you fit together, you learn to cook them together to create a piece of music of composition and arrangement, and things like that. Now, learning these five

chord

shapes

is just another step towards mastering your ingredients and then You can cook beautiful musical dishes, okay, so, five chord shapes.

There are really only five that you need to know and of course you can alter and tweak and you can get a huge vocabulary, but it all comes down to these five ways and these are the five. open chord forms that go by the acronym caged, okay, it's cage and I'm going to

play

the open chord form first so you can see what it looks like now. I'm sure many of you already know this cage and d now. I'm just doing the major chord shapes first. Now, what can we do with these five shapes? You can move them up and down the neck while keeping the shape, but adding a bar behind it so it's like, for example, we had our e shape. here and we're going to move all these chords up to the fifth fret all the way here I moved it five frets and I need to change it to a time signature.

I'm keeping the e shape here, so the e shape here moves around like the five fret barre and now we have an A major chord, but it uses the same shape. Form of e. Slide up five frets and we have a major chord. You can do this for all five shapes. Okay, so let's have one. for one, so starting with the C shape, okay, C shape, now what we have to do is free our index finger so it can be bar and let's change our fingering here, like this, we have our index finger free, slide it up five. frets and time signature and this is now an F major chord, right, in certain cases it is not necessary to measure

everything

, like in this case I am only borrowing the three highest frets, the three highest strings, very good, the following way we have a major change in our

play

ing here so we have our index finger free, slide it up, five fret time signature, there we have it, this is now a D major chord, okay, next on our list, so we have the cage, so we have c a and now it's g so. now for this G we already have our index finger free, now we will slide it up five frets and we will play the beat, now it is a C major chord, okay and then we have the k, we have the next one, we have already done the slide to the right. move up five frets bar major and the last d is our d form change our fingering so we have our index finger free slide it up five frets bar well and this gives us a G major chord so of course you don't You need to slide it up five frets, you can slide it up as many frets as you want, okay, there we have the concept that you can take these five shapes and play around the neck.

Now we're doing it with as many major chords as we can. do it for minor chords too, so in our open position we have C minor, we have A minor, we have G minor, we have E minor and we have D minor, okay, very dark sounds, yeah, five minor chords consecutively, um, but we can , we can move. these too, so we have the C minor form here right now, we have a little bit of a problem because it's a little hard to worry even in the open C minor form, right? If I change my shape here, I slide it. up to five frets and you expect it to make a bar like that, I mean it's possible like that, yes, but in real musical practice this is not really practical, so what we're going to do is just take some notes that don't need to be played the whole chord when we slide it up, so in C minor, okay, we'll just take these three notes, the three lowest notes, which is actually all we need to make the C minor chord, slide it up five frets. and instead of blocking, I'm just going to use my index finger to play that note, we have these three notes and this is already an F minor chord, same for our G minor, right, we don't need to play each note, we're going to slide it to up five frets here and just use our index finger, you have C minor, here okay, E minor minor is pretty doable, I have a minor slide up five frets and then d minor slide up five frets, okay, and now we have g minor so you can do this for major minor you can even do this for augmented diminished chords and any chords you can think of so this is to give you the vocabulary to play um. a lot of songs and we're arranging with our fingers, this is actually very useful, let me give you an example, so you're going to do John Mayer's slow dance in The Burning Room, so I'm just giving you a sample of what it looks like, it's well here.

What am I doing? I'm actually using the A minor shape to play this chord which is a C sharp minor. Now I go here, I'm just playing the bass of this note and here this is actually the C major shape. and the E major chord on the right, E minor shape, C major shape for the E major chord, and if I want to go up an octave, I'm using the E minor shape here, I can change the voice here, I'm using the D form here. The d major shape and the a major shape here are fine, so you can see that by knowing these five moving chord shapes you have a lot of flexibility to play around and make your musical plate however you want so you can make it as original as you can.

If you want, I'll play that riff so you can see it played in its entirety. Well, I hope it was useful to you. You definitely need to practice, but I hope it gave you an idea of ​​some of the possibilities you have. I can really do it by mastering your ingredients, okay, so until next time I'll see you again, bye.