How to Play the E Minor Chord on Guitar

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Bonnie Barnard. On behalf of Expert Village we are going to learn how to play the guitar today. Right now we are going to learn the E minor chord. It's pretty easy don't get scared it's a pretty easy chord to learn so what I'm going to tell you is where to put your fingers on the finger board. You see these gold lines here these are called frets. If you put your fingers you press down on the finger board behind the frets it makes notes. Where ever you put it it makes notes either higher or lower so that is what we are going to do and when you put the notes together you make a chord. So we are going to do the E minor chord so what we are going to do is we are going to go to the second fret. See this gold line behind it? Always put your fingers right behind the fret, not on the fret not in front it, but right on behind it. There is the first string, go to the second string take our first finger put our finger on there right behind that fret. If you notice it will ring out. If you put it right on top of the fret it will not ring out you can barely hear it, if you put it right behind it you'll hear it. Take the second finger put it on the string right under that one on the third string and put it right behind that fret it will ring out. Play them together that is a chord, that is the E minor chord."