How to Play Partial Chords: Guitar Harmonics

Video Transcript

"CASEY CORMIER: Okay so, you recall when we learned bar chords and everything like that. That we had both low and high components where we're going across the strings. We had the bar that extended all the way from low E, to E--to high E. We had our shapes, it helps us to determine major and minor, okay. Well, that's nice, but if we have some kind of quick switching area, and we don't even need the bass notes, basically, we don't need to create full bar chords. You can create partial chords on a G, B, and E strings. Basically, representations, but we can look at them in terms of what they are. So, for example, we can make an A major, E type bar chord, okay. Let's just remove all this and see. The most important thing is that 6th fret on the G string, 5th fret of B and the E, 5th fret. Now, this is-our E type partial bar chord. And now, we can see this is our bass note, the bass is basically on the bottom. So, if we move up, three frets or the 8th fret, 8th fret of high E is C. Now, this is a C major type, you remember the minor, we just take out the second finger, now it's just a full bar here. There's our partial, okay. We have the A type remember, A bar chords, like this, okay."