How to Play Movable Chords in Jazz Guitar

Video Transcript

" Hi! My name is John Armstrong with expertvillage.com. I'm a professional guitar instructor and today we are going to be studying beginning jazz guitar. Okay now we are going to discuss major, and minor movable chords or movable triads but we are going to base these next ones off the 5th string, the A string. The major scale pattern that we are going to use for this is going to be a little different. It is going to start off just like our last one did. I'm going to use D for example. The first octave is the same but here I am going to extend the major scales. It is going to be a little bit short of the 2 octave. So here's our major scale that we are going to base the next major minor triads off of. Root 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th. Root 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th. This movable major chord which some of you may be familiar with, when you think of it based off that major scale which you have is the root here. 2, 3, 4, 5, the 5th here. It's a root 5th . The octave of the root here 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,1 again, root again. It's a root 5th of root. Here's my 3rd, 1,2,3, 4,5,6,7, 1,2,3. Its a root 5th, root 3rd. This gives me a D major triad in D chord. Move it here to E flat chord, D chord. Move it here to E chord. Why? Because it always sets up the same exact pattern of roots, 3rd's and 5th's or in this case, it is root 5th and root and 3rd. Now to make it minor as we stated earlier, let's take the 3rd and flat it. Root 5th, root flatted 3rd. That also enables us to be physically capable of playing this 5th up at the top. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7, 1,2,3,4,5. Its a root 5th and root flatted 3rd and 5th, a D minor chord. A D flat minor chord, an E flat minor chord. So there is our major and minor movable chords based off of the 5th string or the A string. "