Playing E String Movable Chords on the Guitar

Video Transcript

"When it comes to the seventh chords we don't only have to use our bar chords to make usable shapes. This is a benefit to us! So remember our E type bar chord across the fifth fret which was A seventh, a regular dominant chord. This was the bar we used and I said it could be difficult. So if you want to get a different sound, maybe a little jazz, a more laid back sound then this, you can take your first finger here like the fifth fret of the low E string. Now your second finger plays the fifth fret of the D, this gives you your seventh. Now to make it major, you're going to use your forth finger here to play the sixth fret of the G string and your second finger is going to play the fifth fret of the high E. Now, what are we going to do about this open A? Well for this chord it doesn't really matter that much but what we also want to do as principles since this is a movable chord, is mute this A string. So what we do is we don't arch our first finger completely, we let the first finger bend just enough, flatten just enough so that they A string will be muted. Just watch! So see now we have a movable shape. If we wanted to play B flat we don't have to worry about that A string and in our strum with our pick or with our thumb we're only hearing these notes in just a brief little click for that muted string."