Video: Basic Open Chord Shapes on the Guitar

Learn basic open chord shapes on the guitar for finger style playing in this free video music lesson.

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keibafan Aug 02, 2008

Thanka lot, Jeff! You're a great teacher, and video quality is a-o.k. Take care.

danielpedersen Aug 02, 2008

why wont any of the vid's work??

cool4 Aug 02, 2008

Well done. Chord forms are simple and clearly explained.

aljoda Aug 02, 2008

i wish i had had something like this to look at and learn from all those years ago when i first picked up a guitar, then i wouldn't have had to spend the first six months playing the batman theme on the bottom E. best wishes Jeff * and to all of you up and coming guitar hero's - tune up and keep practicing

protoking Aug 02, 2008

ahahha i totally feel you on the F chord, never really understood why some people include

Video Transcript

Hi this is Jeff Isbell on behalf of ExpertVillage.com. We’re going to look at basic open chord shapes. Okay, you must know the basic open chord shapes. They are E-A-D-G-C, some people also say F, well they’re wrong, sorry, an F is just a modified E shape. An anemic bar chord if you will. What’s a bar chord? More about those later. Let’s look at the chord shapes. This is an E, I recommend you learn to play it this way and this way. Here’s an A, many people play it like this, it’s how I learned to play it and I think it cost me a lot of time, but I prefer this finger, it’s easy to get to a D or an E from this finger. Also, it’s quite easy to go to the A major 7 and A7 from here. Hold on. What’s all this major 7 and 7 stuff you ask? We’ll get to it. This is your standard D, not much disagreement about how to finger it, unless you have too much time on your hands. G is an odd chord shape, it’s another for which I recommend learning two positions, this one and this one. Why? Sorry this ain’t that lesson, just keep watching. Here’s C, now do us both a favor and don’t go on to the next lesson until you master this one and the one before.

Basic Open Chord Shapes on the Guitar

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