Chords for A minor (Am) Chord | Beginner Guitar Lesson

_ _ _ _ A minor.
I think A minor has to be one of my [B] top favorite chords.
It's dark, it's
mysterious.
I really love how it sounds especially when you finger pick it.
It's
it's absolutely beautiful.
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_ _ _ _ [Ab] It's just really pretty and out of all of the
minor chords it's hands-down my favorite.
So to build A minor we're gonna start
with our first finger on the first fret second string followed by our second
finger second fret on the fourth string and then we're gonna just take our third
finger also to the second fret place it one string under and that's gonna be on
the third string.
So to play the A minor we're gonna strum down from the fifth
string so you're not gonna play this top string the low E the sixth string so
just [A] from here is this a open fifth string is actually an A note so that's
our root note of the A minor chord.
So when we strum down all together it
should sound like this.
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_ Alright I gotta show you guys [Gm] something that's kind of
cool.
If you watched my first seven videos on the basic major chords then
hopefully you know how to build E major because if you know how to build E major
then you pretty much basically know how to build A minor and vice versa.
[E] Here is
our E major chord.
_ _ _ Now [C] if you take this shape and you move everything down one
string you have A minor.
Boom.
A minor.
Crazy I know.
The only difference is how
you play it so obviously when you play the E major you're gonna strum down on
all of the strings.
A minor all the strings except for the top one [Am] and _ that
[Ab] makes for some really easy transitioning practice so I [A] really recommend
transitioning between the A minor and the E major as practice and [E] _ _ _
_ it sounds
really cool.
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[A] _ _ [E] _ _ Another chord that's really easy to
transition to from the A minor would be C major so if you have your A minor [B] here
the only thing that you would change is you would just take your ring finger
your third finger place it on the third fret fifth string boom that's your C
major so you could literally just practice going from A minor to C [A] major _
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[C] _ [E] add a little E major.
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_ _ _ _ [N] So that's a fun little practice progression that you
can jam out to and it makes it really easy that the chord shapes are all very
similar so transitioning is super simple and if you want to be ahead of the curve
I highly recommend practicing this A minor shape because it's actually gonna
come in handy with building our B minor chord so make sure to stay on that and
stay [Db] tuned because B minor tutorial is coming [Am] up next. _
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