Chords for Learn EVERY Major & Minor Barre Chord in 7 Minutes | Fender Play

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[Am] _ _ [N] Hey everyone, Scott Goldbaum from Fender Play here,
and today I wanna teach you how to unlock
every major and minor barre chord that there is
built in the low E string and A string.
Now this is really exciting for those of you
who are just starting to learn about barre chord shapes.
It's going to reveal how to play any one of them.
And the beautiful thing is, is that it's a movable,
transferable shape up and down the fretboard.
So we'll get to that in a second,
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Now with that, let's jump into this lesson.
The first thing we do is we couple our knowledge
of these four chord shapes, E major, [Em] E minor,
[A] A major, and A minor.
[Am] By the way, you may have noticed I played
it a little bit funny, we'll talk about that in a second.
[N] We couple our knowledge of those shapes
with the linear movement of the musical alphabet.
So going from A to A sharp, to B to C,
C sharp to D, D sharp to E, to F,
to F sharp to G, to G sharp.
You don't have to remember all that,
but those 12 letters is what make up the musical alphabet.
And it's really helpful to know that every time
we go up one letter, it's us going up one fret,
or [E] vice versa, every time we ascend one fret
on a string, like from E [F] to [Gbm] F to [G] F sharp to G,
we're going up one letter in the musical alphabet.
So let's go ahead and talk about this.
The first thing we wanna do is look at
the E major [E] shape for a moment.
And remember, the E major, you have the root note E,
and then everything that follows it,
the shape, determining that it's a major type of chord.
_ Now in the same way, I can go from E [F] to F
[Gb] to F sharp [G] to G with [Em] a single note.
We're actually able to do that with full chord shapes.
Now here's why I'm fingering it [E] this way,
with the free index finger.
So instead of doing it this way,
which is the most conventional way to approach it,
[Am] I want you to try to take your ring finger
to the A string second [B] fret,
followed by your pinky on the second fret of the [E] D string,
and your middle finger on the first [Ab] fret of the G string.
Now [E] that frees up your index finger.
And you could almost lay it down
just to the left of the nut,
kind of simulating what a bar chord might look like,
even though it makes no difference to the quality of sound
when my finger's down versus it being lifted.
But this is the shape that we can then transfer
or move up one [F] fret to [E] turn an E major chord
into [F] an F major chord.
[E] Again, in the same way that we can take one note
and go from [F] an E to [Gb] an F to an F [G] sharp to a G,
we can also do that with [E] types of chords.
We can take this shape,
and it's not enough to just move the shape [Am] without the bar.
That's a cool chord, but that's not what we're looking [E] to do.
We can go from E major [F] to F major
[Gb] to F sharp major [G] to G [Ab] major,
G sharp [A] major, A major.
You see this movable shape?
One major bar chord shape,
[E] _ and we derive all that information from the E major chord,
which is cool, because if we wanna go ahead
and figure out how to play any minor bar chord shape
there is built on the low E string,
we look to the E minor chord.
Just lift your middle finger.
[Em] _ _ So there's your E [Fm] minor. _
There's your [Gbm] F minor.
F sharp [Gm] minor.
G [Abm] minor, G [Am] sharp minor, A minor, so on and so forth.
And what's cool is that we can repeat this same idea
[Eb] using the A major chord and the A minor chord shapes,
those open chord shapes,
to inform what our minor bar chords
and major bar chords would look like built on the A string.
So let's go ahead and make an A major chord like [Cm] this.
What I want you to do,
[E] instead of using [A] your middle ring and pinky
as I was demonstrating earlier,
[D] we're gonna go ahead and just use
the pad of our ring finger right here
to cover these [E] three strings across the second fret.
You have the [A] D string, G string, and B string
across the second fret,
and this can be kind of tricky [Eb] when you do it [E] this way,
because we often accidentally mute that high E string,
but you'll do your best the more that you become familiar
with the shape [A] to play that open.
_ [Ab] So we're gonna play this [A] version of A major.
Again, here is your A note built on the A string.
If I brought just that fret up [Bb] one, right,
I'm now playing an A sharp or a B flat note.
If I bring that up [B] again, here's [C] B, here's C.
[Eb] Same idea is true if we grab all the contents of this chord,
the open strings and this little bar right here
with my ring finger, and bring all of that up at one time.
We [A] go from A major to [Bb] A sharp major,
[B] to B major, [C] to C [Db] major, C sharp [D] major,
[Eb] D major, D sharp [E] major, [A] E major, so on and so forth.
And finally, we can give that same treatment
to the A minor chord shape in order to know
what all the minor bar chords are built on the A string.
Here's our A minor shape,
similar to the way I had you play the E major earlier
on this set of [E] strings.
We're gonna bring that up a string [Am] set
for our A minor shape, [E] and you have the ring finger
on the second fret of D, pinky on [A] the second fret of G,
and your [Cm] middle finger on the B string's first fret
so that we can [Am] reserve our first finger's usage
for the bar.
So here's an A minor, _ followed by an [Bbm] A sharp minor,
then a B [Bm] minor, [Cm] and then a C minor, [Dbm] so on and so forth.
C sharp [Dm] minor, D minor.
[N] We're using our familiarity with the E major,
the E minor, the A major, and the A minor
to inform how to play all of these major and minor bar chords
when you're strumming from either the low E string down
or from the A string down.
So let's check it out.
We're gonna run up the octave with each of these shapes.
Here's [E] E major, F [F] major, F sharp [Gb] major,
[G] G major, G sharp [Ab] major, [A] A major,
[Bb] A sharp major, B [B] major, [C] C major,
[Db] C sharp major, [D] D major, [Eb] D sharp major,
and then [E] all the way up here an octave up
from where we started for E major.
[Em] Now, if we just simply lift our middle finger,
we're then gonna be able to go from E minor [Fm] to F minor,
[Gbm] F sharp minor, G [Gm] minor, [Abm] G sharp minor,
[Am] A minor, [Bbm] A sharp minor, [Bm] B minor, [Cm] C minor,
[Dbm] C sharp minor, [Dm] D minor, [Ebm] D sharp minor,
and all the way across the 12th fret with the bar,
[Em] the E minor, in the higher octave.
Okay, let's check out the two chords
that we're gonna look at built on the A string,
the A minor [A] and the A major shapes.
We'll start with the major one.
Here's your A major, [Bb] your A sharp major,
your [B] B major, your [C] C major, [Db] C sharp major,
D [D] major, [Eb] D sharp major, [E] E major,
[F] F major, [Gb] F sharp major, [G] G major,
[Abm] G sharp major, and then full circle [A] an octave higher,
your A major right there at the end.
And then finally, let's go ahead
and look at the A minor [Am] shape
to inform the minor bar chords built on the A string,
starting with A minor, _ [Bbm] A sharp minor, B [Bm] minor,
[Cm] C minor, [Dbm] C sharp minor, D [Dm] minor,
[Ebm] D sharp minor, E [Em] minor, [Fm] F minor,
F sharp [Gbm] minor, [Gm] G minor, G [Abm] sharp minor,
and [Am] finally, A minor in the higher octave
across the 12th fret.
[B] So I hope you found that helpful.
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