Welcome back in the last lesson you learned a bunch of barre chords off of the six string root chords
like six string minor six string reminders seven minor 9:06 during major rise six string seven dominant
seventh chord and now we're going to do something similar.
We're going to learn a batch of barre chords off of the fifth string.
Now you already know this string roots suspended second bar chord and fifth string root minor bar chord.
So what we're going to do is we're going to use those as the basis of the foundation to do the same
thing.
We kind of did on the six string.
We're adding a finger taking away your finger the slight movements are giving us different intervals
in the chord which gives them a different coordination but the technique the structure the basic shape
where the cluster stays the same.
So let's start with our bass chord.
Our foundational chord are D-minor.
This string group the string and play are minor shape.
And you getting all those notes during the first fingers spilling over muting the lower string.
Third and fourth fingers together.
The bar is straight.
The wrist is down.
All that great stuff that we've been working on.
OK.
So now really easy to make this minor into a minor seventh all you do is you take the pinky and poop
off it comes poof.
Now we have a D minor seventh chord
and again this is movable if you move it to the third fret C minor 7.
Move it to the second fret the minor set it up to the sixth fret that's an E-flat or D sharp minor seventh
so that's minor and minor seventh.
You also know minor and minor seventh on the low key strings and you're covered with those chords right.
So now let's go back to our minor chord Now if we take off that second finger.
We have our D suspended second.
We learned that a while back.
So now we're going to do is we're going to take the pinky finger on this court and we're going to drop
that down one string to the B string.
So it's either string on the seventh fret and that now that shape that way means seventh chord a dominant
chord.
OK.
So all it is is you're moving that one finger down a string.
So this is already seven more we move that to the third fret C 7.
Move to the second fret B 7 7 7 so that around 7 4 7 4.
Now here's something cool if you take your second finger and put that on the G string Listen to this
chord.
It becomes so beautiful that some of my favorite chords right there are those.
That's a major 7 D Major seventh because now we're taking that flatted seventh or making it a natural
or major seventh third 57 seventh and so simple just adding a finger from our seventh chord and it's
a major seventh and a guy that's movable seen a 7 7 7 for the first fret B-flat made yourself
so just a quick review.
We have D-minor.
These are all fifth straight or take off the second finger.
He says to write but that's like a finger back take off the pinky right.
97.
Go back to the DSS to drop the pinky down one string on
that second finger back to the G string.
The major said sweet jazz to 74 is very dreamy.
So let's take these chords and do a little exercise but include some six string root barre chords with
the fifth string RV-Park chords right.
Make it a little challenging for you.
Keep pushing yourself harder play harder progressions harder chords harder chord changes harder songs
that's how you get better.
Keep pushing yourself to the majors so they go down to the second fret and play a B minor chord right.
And then they go and the six string and move that B Minor up to the 16 G Major then we're going to slide
that G-Major up to the fifth fret and it would be a major on the sixth.
So you know major seventh to be minor on the fishing route and then Jimmy on the 16th a major.
Now when you have multiple chord changes when it's more than two three four five six or whatever.
A lot of times you just practice some back and forth two at a time.
You could break those long changes up into two chord changes or if you have a string of changes like
we're going to be getting into Soon long progressions and I'm going to talk about how to conquer those.
You could take the ones that you're having the most trouble with.
Just go back and forth between those two.
Right.
Just as a little finger exercise.
I can go to 7th right here back north and you could make a list of the changes that you struggle with
and hit those you know 10 15 times a day or while you're watching TV just back and forth back and forth
because a lot of it is the muscle memory.
Right.
All right so we go the line at this time the G.
Those two six string chords let's give it a try.
So roll that one around a bunch of times and get those changes clean and in time even at first.
I know this is a very difficult change but first you need to solve down
write and then work you know to strum patterns but doing straight you know straight quarter is fine.
Nice and slow at first just to the change zoos are tricky changes right and love more challenging changes
view and lessons coming up especially when you get to open the barre chords and barre chords opens.
Let's do one more let's do.
Let's go up to the seventh fret on the fifth string read our play E minor seventh chord.
What's taking three minor pinky off and that's E minor 7 and then back down all the way.
Let's get some movement here and go all the way down to the second fret.
And let's go to our B minor chord.
Right now you're probably saying Well David why don't we just play this B minor right above it on the
6 string root.
Right because you know minor shape on this it will be so much closer.
You can do that.
Absolutely.
But you caught that right.
You can do that in probably most instances you will play it that way because a lot of times especially
for strumming fast you've got to grab what's closest.
But in this particular instance I want to work moving these chords around so it's more of just for exercise
sake go from the fifth string or down to the BMI fifth string groove then go up a half a step to see
a play the C major seventh and then on the sixth string group or a chord right.
So you basically go for the seventh fret on the string finger to the second fret on the string to the
third fret on the string to the fifth fret the low string or you know you're a chord here.
Play it like this you could go to that open court.
But I want you to use these barre chords again because it's an exercise right.
So first just do the slow quarter notes right.
Like for just one change I steps you make yourself
and then type with the strum pattern once you have the changes down
and then a lot of these changes and progressions I've been giving you in this course are going to challenge
you and they might take a few weeks to get down especially like the long progressions that are going
to be doing.
They'll take a while but you know chip away then because man if you can master a progression with 15
changes tough changes imagine most songs which have four or five changes may will be like butter a piece
of cake.
And it's especially challenging playing some of these barre chords on acoustic guitar.
Right.
So if you have an electric you might want to do it on electric first because you know the strings aren't
as thick the action is a little lower it's a little easier to play in and you can work up to the acoustic
or you can use the acoustic as like your practice means in this way when you go to electric you'll be
flying because to be like wow.
It's so much easier.
Right now there's one more fifth string bark or that's pretty important.
And that's the major bark or shape.
The reason why I'm I've waited so long to show you this is it's very tricky because you basically have
to do a double bar you added double bar was a little tricky and it's going to take some time so that's
why I kind of always teach at last that it's something you want to build up to.
But I'll show it to you real quick.
There's a couple of different ways to play it depending on how your fingers bend.
He'll see what I mean in a second.
So I'll go back to our D chord.
So basically to play a D major or a fifth string root made your bar chord of it look something like
this.
And you see that I'm borrowing with my first finger and I'm boring with my third finger.
So what you have to do is you have to get your third finger on the fifth string to bar three across.
Three of the strings across the G and the B.
And the first finger as usual with your number which is R and that's D Major playing the high string.
When we're doing it like this
right now that's difficult because you've got to bar and stretch and have strength with two bars.
OK.
So that's going take some time but certainly work on it and chip away.
Now some people their fingertip bends and a backward angle right.
Mine doesn't.
Mine is totally straight.
But some people can actually bend it back a little bit about half of my students have that ability and
half don't.
It's kind of like your tongue.
Are you able to curl your tongue or are you not right.
Some people have it.
Some people don't.
It's the way that we're built right.
And if you do it that's cool because technically you're first because you could bend your finger back
and play those three strings to the beat.
And because this bar is going to bar the first thing you also get that.
Know you get that high and which will work on the bark.
So if you can get your finger to bend back like that you can play the whole thing.
There's even people that play it like this will put three fingers instead of barring it will do like
an acorn shape.
Right.
And they'll play all three and bar them like this and this way they'll get that high in there to that
high note in there too.
But you have to cram all three fingers in this tight kind of fret space right so that's kind of hard
to do.
So I prefer to play it like this play the high that's the major danger of just moving it down.
C E Major D major
power cord or power cord you just kind of adding another note underneath it.
Try it.
OK so that's another batch of cool barre chords that you now have under your fingers.
So now you know a fifth string route minor bar chord string route minor seventh bar chord root suspended
second part chord fifth string root seventh barre chord fifth string root major seventh bar chord and
a fifth string root major bar chord.
That's a lot of our chords right.
And you knew from two lessons ago you know you know a lot of the six string root barre chords right.
So you're really building up your chord vocabulary and you're moving these chords around and having
fun with them.
And man it gets easier with time when you get that muscle memory going right and you get more strength
in that bar finger.
Keep up all the hard work you're doing great.
And tune into the next lesson.
Keep on rocking.