Playing E Minor Barre Chords on the Guitar

Video Transcript

"So we just looked at the E major bar chord, just like with our first finger where you start on the fifth fret barring across like so, and we put our third finger, forth finger and second finger on the seventh, seventh and sixth frets of the A, D and G string all respectively. Now say this is only going to give us a major sound. Now remember how with E major to play an E minor we picked up our first finger and we kept that G open? Well the same theory is going to apply here, except for now we'll pick up our second finger. When we add the bar, now we have a minor. Sometimes we can use our second finger, when we're playing a minor type and just lay it across the first finger, but don't let that minor type touch anywhere in between it might mute the string. So you really do either use it as pressure here or let it lay suspended. So now we have an A minor this would be, take a guess! A B flat minor and this would be a C minor. Remember we knew how to play open C major before but we never couldn't really grasp the C minor without making a pretty gross shape. So now we have a method of playing C minor as well."