Have you ever noticed guitar players fretting further up the neck and their fingers are barely moving around the fretboard but they seem to be making all of the changes? This page of videos is going to show you how this is done using the chord shapes of just 5 basic chords you probably already know. The chords are C, A, G, E, and D. By the end of this video series you will learn:
60 different chords compartmentalized into 5 different shapes to remember
How to comp economically
Relationships between chord tones to develop better solos
How to find uncommon chords such as Bb, A#, F#, Gb, Eb, D#, Ab, G#, C# & Db
How to build minor chords, Dominant (7th) chords, major 7th chords, and minor 7th chords
About how to find extended chords such as 6th, 9th, 13th and what all of that means
Once you have learned all five open chords and how you can close them up by barring the chords using your first finger, you need to start learning all 12 chords using the five shapes. I am going to split these up in three videos. The first one will be G & E because you will use the top string (6th string) to find the root of the chord. The second will be the A & C chords because you will use the 5th string to find the root of each chord. The last video will cover the D chord using a combination of the 4th string and the 6th string. Once you've learned all of these inversions you will know 60 different chords!!