These chords should all be familiar to you, the keys are familiar to you so the next drill, the next practice is go through all of them.
Get your own picking bass going.
And in every key. E.
Let's see what else, we know A.
So review C. A. G. E. D.
Review all of the keys that you know, all of the chords and from now on when I teach you a new chord
or a new variation of a chord we're going to go through the following things.
We're going to talk about the shape of the chord. We're going to talk about the position of the chord.
We'll talk about what are acceptable alternating bass notes and where you have to move to get them if necessary
and then whether or not it's an acceptable bar chord if it's not already a bar chord.
So here's an example of the kinds of chords we're going to start learning next as we need them.
We're going to go on and do other things in addition to chords but for example let's say in the next song I might teach you an A minor chord.
Ok. Minor chords have their own characteristics, remember when I said sevenths to me sounds like a transitional chord.
We've been on a C for a while about to go somewhere else, seventh gives us a hint, we're about to move.
Minor chords sound like this… They tend to have a sad song maybe, a more serious tone.
This is an A chord… This is an A minor chord…
Pretty. It's very useful.
Now when I teach you a new chord I might show you things like this, here's how you fret it, first, third, second finger.
There's your root note, even on a minor chord we keep a root note.
A major, A minor still has an A in the root note, that's what it sounds like and here's what the bass notes are. Same as an A chord in this case.
Oh and by the way this is a perfectly acceptable bar chord if you want to fret it this way and bring the nut up with you,
we can go all over the place and do this.
So what I'm trying to get you to think about is this,
is why we've spent so much time focusing on chords shapes, why we focused so much time on the C, A, G, E, D shape
and why we've talked about alternating basses and subtle variations and how you move your hand down around here.
It's because now we can take off from there and build all kinds of chords.
Any chords that we need to support the songs that we want to do.
That's going to be it for this lesson. Spend some time reviewing bass notes, chord shapes and transitions.
I'll see you next time.