Chords for The Acoustic Guitar Chord That changes Everything

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_ _ [N] Hey, what's up?
Marty Schwartz here at GuitarJams.com.
I've got a fairly easy but really cool sounding acoustic _ _ lesson for you, a way to spice up
your playing a bit, maybe spark some new ideas.
_ Basically all I did was one concept with one of the first chords everybody learns is a
D major chord.
_ _ So right there, D major chord.
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Okay, so we take this D major chord.
Whoa, I almost dropped my guitar.
That would be bad.
So D major chord, right?
And this is a concept I have in other videos.
But if you move that just the notes that your fingers are on, if I moved it up a whole step,
_ it's an E major chord.
It actually goes up a letter.
And then E to F in all of music is a half step.
So if I move this D chord up a half step, it's now an F major _ triad three note chord.
If I move it up another whole step, it's a G chord.
Another whole step it's an A chord.
Another whole step it's a B chord.
And then B to C is a half step in music as well.
So I move that up a half step, now I have a C chord.
So you can substitute your regular chords with this D shape and it's really great when
you're playing with another guitar [G] player.
Like if one guy is playing this G chord right here, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] you can take this D chord, D, E, [B] half
step to F, whole step to [G] G, and I can play this one instead. _ _ _ _
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_ [E] Same chord.
_ And they complement each other really well.
But here's a little kind of embellishment concept off of that.
So if I took this D chord, and this is also going to be called a D inversion.
You can play this instead of a D chord.
What I'm going to do is we're not even going to play the high E right now.
We're not going to worry about it.
We're going to take our middle finger [Em] and _ _ _ [D#] we're going to put it on the third fret of
the B string.
Just fooling around with you.
_ Then index is going to go on the second fret.
Really pay attention to the fingers.
Middle on the third of the B, _ index on the second of the G.
_ _ Those two notes are the same from the [D] D chord.
_ _ _ _ _ But then what I'm going to do is I'm going to play my ring finger on the fourth fret
of [F#] the D.
Aha!
_ That makes it different. _ _
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_ _ So we're not playing the root [Am] in the bass anymore.
[G] And if you don't know what that means, don't worry about it.
Just a cool D chord.
But then what I like to do is instead of just with my index finger playing the second fret
of the G, I'm just going to kind of bar this little cluster here of the _ _ high E, B, G, and
D. _
Then I get my middle finger right there.
And then what I can do, [E] that enables me to hammer _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
[E] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [A#] _ _ that fourth fret of the D string and
[G] get kind of a Hendrix-y kind [F#m] of sound. _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ And then I can also hammer the G string as well as an embellishment.
This is all just a really cool sounding D chord.
[F] In [Em] fact, if I [D] drop, go into drop D, you'll hear. _ _
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when you're barring it, you can get the high E in there.
You can add your pinky right here to the fifth. _ _ _
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_ And then you can [Em] even get, figure [A] out a way to get the third fret of the high [D] E. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [B] But look, if I take that [D#] concept with the D chord _ and then I move it up to where, let's
say my index finger's on the seventh fret, middle's on the [A#] eighth, ring's on the ninth.
For the G chord, and then up a whole step for the A chord, _ now you have just the basic
one-four-five but with really cool sounds.
_ So I'll do one time just basic concepts.
We got D [D] to _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ G, [G] _ _ back _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
to D [D] maybe, _ _ _ and [E] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
then up to A, [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ down to G. _ _ _ _
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_ [G] Let me zoom in so you can just kind of look at what I'm doing.
I'm just improvising, but _ taking very easy basic chords and making them way more expensive
sounding as I've used in old videos.
So here we go.
Check this out.
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[D] _ _ _ _ _ Keep _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ going, keep playing.
I know you can do it. _ _ _ _
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