
Learn about B Major variations as you learn how to fingerpick the blues on the guitar, from a professional guitar player in this free video music lesson.
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"Okay, and pretty much any of these changes can be done elsewhere on the neck. Right? So I just showed you the example from F, where, right, so here's an E chord, an F chord is the same chord just slid up one fret. So the same is true that any little additions that you would do, you know, with your pinkie, for example, in an E, you would basically do the same ones in an F chord, it would just be moved up a fret. Okay? Same thing is true for an A, I mean, the way that I like to play a B chord is to just basically take the A chord and slide it up to a B. Of course, this would be the B-flat and so the B is here. Okay? So I'm kind of, my index finger is kind of holding this note down here, which is actually the root. Right? So, in an A chord, that root is actually on the second string here, on the A string, not the E. So if I'm playing an open A, the root's here. So, if I'm playing a B, that's also the string that the root's on, I just have to, you know, slide it up two frets. Right, so there's my B chord. If I play it like this, I can do that same little, that same little addition that I did when I was playing an A. Remember an A, it was like this. That note I'm adding is just right here. Okay? Now, if I do it in B, I just kind of move everything up here."
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